Gary Bridge, Vice President, Internet Business Solutions Group, Cisco Systems, US Gary Bridge is Vice President of the Internet Business Solutions Group (IBSG). Cisco's IBSG works with many of the world's leading companies to help them become more competitive through effective business processes and technology deployment. Bridge brings solid industry knowledge and broad experience to the organization. Prior to joining Cisco, he was corporate vice president of IBM's Worldwide Marketing Management and Market Intelligence. View Expanded Biography

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Professor Stephen Coleman, Professor of eDemocracy, University of Oxford, UK Professor Coleman received his BA hons and PhD from London University. Formerly Director of the Hansard e-democracy program, which pioneered online consultations for the UK Parliament, and lecturer in Media & Communication at the London School of Economics and Political Science, he has chaired the Independent Commission on Alternative Voting Methods. View Expanded Biography

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Stefan Czerniawski, Director of Strategy, Department of Work and Pensions, UK Stefan Czerniawski joined the UK Department of Social Security in 1988. He has worked in a wide range of posts, including secretary to the Pension Law Review Committee, Head of Fraud and Debt Operations in the Benefits Agency and principal private secretary to the Secretary of State, and he also led the project to introduce the first corporate intranet. In 1998-99, he studied for an MBA at Cranfield School of Management, following which he spent three years in the Cabinet Office as Director of e-Government Strategy at the Office of the e-Envoy. There he was responsible for developing the overall vision for transforming government, and for bringing together departments’ e-business strategies and their progress towards the target that all government services should be online by 2005. View Expanded Biography

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Mark Frequin, Director General Telecom, Post and ICT, Ministry of Economic Affairs, Netherlands Mark Frequin has been the Director-General Telecommunications and Post (DGTP) at the Ministry of Transport, Public Works and Water Management/Economic Affairs since 2002. Prior to this, he was deputy Secretary-General of the Ministry of Justice from January 2000 to December 2001. From 1998 until January 2000 he worked at the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science as director in different divisions of the ministry. Mark Frequin (1953) studied Social and Economical Geography and (Urban and Rural) Planning at the University of Groningen. View Expanded Biography

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John Grant, Acting Chief Information Officer, Federal Government of Australia, Department of Finance and Administration, Australia John Grant is the acting Chief Information Officer of the Australian Government Information Management Office. The Australian Government Information Management Office (AGIMO) fosters the efficient and effective use of ICT by Australian Government departments and agencies. It provides strategic advice, activities and representation relating to the application of ICT to government administration, information and services. View Expanded Biography

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Dr. Kuk Hwan Jeong, Director General, Ministry of Government Administrations and Home Affairs (MOGAHA), Korea Dr. Jeong is Director General, heading the Bureau of E-Government at the Ministry of Government Administrations and Home Affairs (MOGAHA). He is in charge of several key initiatives for electronic government. They include G4C (Government for Citizens) project, Information Network Village Project, Government-wide System Integration Project, IT application projects for local government administration, the project establishing the electronic document system, and so on. View Expanded Biography

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Yvon Le Roux, Vice President Public Sector EMEA, Cisco Systems Yvon Le Roux, as Vice-President of Public Sector for Cisco in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, is responsible for sales, marketing and business development for local and central government, healthcare, education and defense. Yvon joined Cisco Systems in September 1996 and until recently was Vice-President for EMEA South in charge of Cisco's operations in France, Italy, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland and Austria. Yvon has also been closely involved in the company’s developments in Germany and Africa. View Expanded Biography

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Cairine MacDonald, Deputy Minister, Ministry of Management Services, Government of British Columbia, Canada Cairine MacDonald was appointed Deputy Minister of Management Services and Chief Executive Officer of Solutions BC Shared Services in August 2003. The Ministry of Management Services is dedicated to being "a leader in connecting citizens, communities and businesses with government services and a valued partner in the delivery of innovative services to the public sector". View Expanded Biography

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Nedelcho Vassilev Nedelchev, Deputy Minister of Transport and Communications, Bulgaria Nedelcho Vassilev Nedelchev, was born in Sofia on May 29, 1974. He studied in the English Language School in the same town. He graduated from University of National and World Economy, Sofia, in 1998 with a Masters degree in International economic relations. Deputy Minister Nedelchev began his professional career in 1995 as a financial consultant at Licensed Brokerage House AVAL Ltd. where he worked until 1997. Later he was employed by First Financial Brokerage House /FFBH/ as financial analyst. Mr. Nedelchev became Head of department "Analyses and corporate finance" at FFBH in 1999, and since June 2001 he has been General Manager of First Financial Brokerage House. View Expanded Biography

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Howard Rheingold, Professional Virtual Community Builder, US Howard Rheingold is one of the world's gurus of cyberspace and digital culture. An author, journalist, and editor, he is also a visionary, a futurist, and a synthesizer of today's ever-changing communications applications. Mr. Rheingold was the founding executive editor of HotWire; the successful commercial webzine launched by Wired magazine in 1994, and was its first editor. He was also the author of the weekly multimedia newspaper column, "Tomorrow," which was distributed to dozens of newspapers across the country by King Features Syndicate. View Expanded Biography

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Christian Rupp, Federal Executive Secretary, Austrian Federal Chancellery, Austria Christian Rupp is the Austrian Federal Executive Secretary for E-Government since 2003 and as the E-Business representative of the Austrian Federal Economic Chamber from 1994-2003 Christian Rupp is the driving force behind information society awareness activities in Austria. Before his appointment as the Austrian Federal Executive Secretary for EGovernment by the Austrian Chancellor in 2003 he held also positions in the chamber organization as Vice Director of Communications/Marketing Department and Deputy Manager International Technology and Know-How Transfer. View Expanded Biography

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Martin Schallbruch, Director of IT, Federal Ministry of the Interior, Germany Martin Schallbruch, Diplom-Informatiker (M.Sc. in Computer Science) studied computer science, law and sociology. In 1992 he was head of an IT service centre at Humboldt University in Berlin. He moved to the Federal Ministry of the Interior in 1998 as personal assistant to the State Secretary, Brigitte Zypries. Since 2002, he has held the position of Chief Information Officer at the Federal Ministry of the Interior.

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Gunnar Söderholm, CEO, City of Stockholm, Sweden Gunnar Söderholm has been Deputy Chief Executive Office at the City of Stockholm since 2002. He previously held the position of Managing director of the housing agency at the City of Stockholm and Managing director of the Public Trustee Committee in Stockholm. After completing a Law Masters at the University of Stockholm, Gunnar Soderholm worked as a law assistant in the civil administration of the Swedish National Defense followed by a clerk in a local court, before joining the City Administration of Stockholm as Political assistant to the deputy mayor.

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Santiago Segarra Tormo, Director General, Information Technology, Agencia Tributaria - Spanish Tax Agency Santiago Segarra Tormo is the Tax Information Technology General Manager in the Public Agency for Taxes Administration (AEAT) that belongs to the Ministry of Finance. He reports to the Ministry of Finance Secretary of State, and is responsible for the Information Technology in the Tax department, which includes tax management, tax collection, tax inspection and customs. View Expanded Biography

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Diogo Vasconcelos, President, UMIC, Portuguese Prime Ministers Office, Portugal Diogo Vasconcelos is 35 years old, was born in Porto, Portugal. He graduated in Law at the Porto Catholic University. He is a post graduate in Communications Law at Coimbra University and also in Management at Porto Catholic University. He is currently taking a master in Political Science at Lisbon Catholic University. View Expanded Biography

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Her Excellency, Honorable Genet Zewde Beru, Minister of Education, Government of Ethiopia Mrs. Genet Zewde Beru holds a Diploma in Business Education from the Haile Sellasie I University, a B.Sc. degree from the Plymouth State College, and a MSc. degree in Business Education from the Suffolk University in Boston. She subsequently became Assistant Professor at the Addis Ababa University. She has participated and presented papers in many international and regional conferences and seminars, and she has published articles in the field of education. View Expanded Biography

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