Richard C. Alvarez
President and Chief Executive Officer
Canada Health Infoway
As President and Chief Executive Officer, Richard C. Alvarez is responsible for providing overall direction and leadership for Canada Health Infoway's activities. Formerly, the President and CEO of CIHI, he led the evolution of CIHI from an organization focused on warehousing data, to one that disseminates relevant policy material, and has links with the research community.
Dr. Muhammad Benten
CEO and President
Saudi Post, Saudi Arabia
Dr. Muhammad S. Benten is the CEO and president of the SaudiPost. He was appointed to lead the restructuring of The Saudi Postal Services and convert it into a privatized commercial entity. He was the Deputy Minister of Hajj, Umrah affairs, where he deployed a successful e-government project with the partnership of the private sector. The system serves over 5,000,000 Muslims who visit Saudi Arabia annually to perform Hajj and Umrah.
Anthony Bravo
Principal
Crossways Academy, England
On Monday 7 July 2003, Anthony Bravo became the first Principal of Crossways Academy. Although born and brought up in North London, he has been living and working south of the River for the past 17 years.
Mr. Bravo comes from a very mixed background which includes African, Caribbean and European influences. In his younger days he travelled most of the world including, Africa; West Indies; Americas and most of Europe. He looks forward to also visiting Asia someday.
Gary Bridge
Senior Vice President
Internet Business Solutions Group
Cisco Systems Inc., US
Gary Bridge is Senior Vice President of the Internet Business Solutions Group (IBSG). Cisco's IBSG works with many of the world's leading companies and governments to help them become more effective through changed business processes and intelligent technology deployment.
Frans de Bruïne
Director, ICT for Citizens and Businesses, Information Society and Media Directorate General, European Commission, Belgium
Frans de Bruïne born 19th December 1942 in Hilversum, Netherlands, is a Director at the European Commission, responsible for “ICT for Citizens and Businesses” in the Information Society and Media Directorate General. Before starting a professional career with Shell International in 1968, he obtained a Masters degree in Physics at the Technological University of Delft (NL). From 1975 to 1990, he rose to Director General of the Dutch Technology Agency at the Ministry of Economic Affairs (The Hague), before starting his career at the Commission in 1990.
John Connell
Director, Scottish Schools Digital Network Unit, Scotland
John Connell is Director of the Scottish Schools Digital Network (SSDN), an ambitious programme of development in ICT for Scottish education funded by the Scottish Executive (the devolved government of Scotland). SSDN brings together a national broadband interconnect, a national content delivery infrastructure and a national intranet for teaching and learning. John was a primary teacher and headteacher for a number of years before working in a local authority education directorate in central Scotland. He was seconded to the Scottish Executive in 2001 to develop a national policy for schools’ broadband and to project-manage SSDN. He now leads the SSDN team within Learning and Teaching Scotland, a national organisation serving Scottish education authorities and schools in ICT, curriculum and staff development.
Malcolm Crompton
Managing Director, Information Integrity Solutions
and former Privacy Commissioner, Australian Federal Government
Malcolm Crompton is Managing Director of Information Integrity Solutions P/L, providing high level advice to private sector and public sector organisations on building trust through excellent data governance, particularly in their collection and use of personal information. He is also Principal of The Trust Dimension.
Dr. Andy DiPaolo
Executive Director, Stanford Center for Professional Development and Senior Associate Dean of Engineering, Stanford University
Andy DiPaolo is the founding Executive Director of the Stanford Center for Professional Development and responsible for one of the largest university continuing education organizations and distance education networks delivering graduate and professional education programs to technology professionals, managers and executives.
DiPaolo, at Stanford since 1988, has a long history as an advisor to public sector groups in North America, Europe and the Pacific Rim on the strategic use of technology to address education and training needs and in the development of new models for distributed learning.
Dr. Jay Dominick
Assistant Vice President of Information Systems and CIO Wake Forest University, US
Responsible for strategy, planning and operations for Wake Forest University’s highly regarded Information Technology efforts. Wake Forest University is consistently ranked as a leader in the use of Information Technology in the teaching and learning process. As Chief Information Officer direct the efforts of the Information Systems Department, including networking, computer operations, help desk, telecommunications, programming and systems development. Was responsible for the implementation and support of the ubiquitous laptop computing project at Wake Forest which helped establish a new model for technology deployment in Higher Education. Active in statewide networking as chairman of the North Carolina Research and Education Network (NCREN) advisory board and is a co-founder of WinstonNet – a community technology initiative in Winston-Salem.
Stephan Engberg
Identity Management Consultant and founder of Priway, Denmark
Stephan J. Engberg is specialised in Trust Socio/Economics. Since 1999 he has been focused on Identity Management, Privacy Enhancing Technologies and increasingly Identity Theft, in order to design security into technology, services and products to overcome the growing distrust and security problems.
Professor Shih Choon Fong
President
National University of Singapore
Prof Shih Choon Fong became President of NUS in 2000.
Prof Shih received his PhD from Harvard University. Thereafter, he led the Fracture Research Group at the Corporate Research Lab at General Electric in the U.S. He later joined Brown University as a professor. Prof Shih is a Foreign Associate of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering.
Maurice Gallant
Chief Information Officer and Assistant Director of Corporate Services
City of Fredericton, Canada
Mr. Gallant is Chief Information Officer and Assistant Director of Corporate Services with the City of Fredericton. In 1997 Mr. Gallant joined the City of Fredericton as Manager of Information and Communication Technology. In 2001, he was appointed President and CEO of E-Novations, a city owned company dedicated to economic development through technology innovation.
Mike Gibbons
Director, DfES Innovation Unit Department for Education & Skills, England
Mike joined the DfES Innovation Unit in November 2002 as the Lead Director. The Unit itself was established as a result of the Education White Paper 'Schools: Achieving Success'. The intention is to be able to encourage and respond to innovative approaches to teaching and learning and school management from across the school system.
Dr. Lev Gonick
Vice President of Information Technology Services and Chief Information Officer
Case Western Reserve University, US
Today, Lev Gonick is Vice President for Information Technology Services and Chief Information Officer at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. Case is one of the nation's leading independent research universities. Case’s technology infrastructure and reputation for innovation and cutting-edge applications is recognized across the country and around the world. Case has been ranked number #1 in the nation among private, independent universities for wireless technology deployments.
Dr. Arnaud Hansske
CIO and Manager of the Medical Information Department
Arras Hospital, France
Dr Arnaud Hansske, CIO and Manager of the Medical Information Department, Arras Hospital, France
Dr Arnaud Hansske joined the Arras Hospital in 2001. Since, he has installed a full centred medical information system and created an integrated platform for the 'connected' medical community that now links Arras Hospital, 150 health centres and practitioners in its region and the ambulance service.
Joe Harley
Programme and Systems Delivery (PSD) Group Director and Chief Information Officer
Department of Work and Pensions, UK
Joe is the Group Director of Programme and Systems Delivery (PSD) and CIO. He was appointed in May 2004 and took up his post on 28 July. He has overall responsibility for IT and for the £3 billion IT Programme which underpins the wholesale modernisation of services on which the DWP is embarked.
Dr. John L. Hennessy
President, Stanford University and Member of the Cisco Board of Directors, US
John L. Hennessy joined Stanford's faculty in 1977. He was named the Willard and Inez Kerr Bell Endowed Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science in 1987.
From 1983 to 1993, Dr. Hennessy was director of the Computer System Laboratory, a research and teaching center operated by the Departments of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science that fosters research in computer systems design. He served as chair of computer science from 1994 to 1996 and, in 1996, was named dean of the School of Engineering.
Edward M. Hundert, M.D.
President
Case Western Reserve University, US
Edward M. Hundert, M.D., became president of Case Western Reserve University on August 1, 2002. A nationally known scholar, educator, psychiatrist, medical ethicist, and author, President Hundert is a leader in developing innovative and effective learning experiences in higher education.
Ilias Iakovidis
Deputy Head of ICT for Health
European Commission, Belgium
Ilias Iakovidis received Ph.D. in 1990 (USA) in applied mathematics thesis on inverse problem in electrocardiography. From 1990 to 1993 he was a researcher at University of Montreal and Montreal Heart Institute.
Dr. Patricia Iannuzzi
Dean of Libraries, University of Nevada , US
Patricia Iannuzzi is Dean of Libraries at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. An international leader in information literacy, Patricia chaired the multi-association task force sponsored by the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) that wrote the Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education. She also co- chaired the ACRL/ American Association of School Libraries (ACRL/AASL) Task Force on the Educational Role of Libraries, which developed a Blueprint for Collaboration between academic and school libraries. Patricia served on the American Library Association (ALA) President's Special Committee on Information Literacy Community Partnerships and on the ALA Task Force for 21st Century Literacies.
Yvon Le Roux
Vice President Public Sector
European and Emerging Markets
Cisco Systems, France
Yvon Le Roux, as Vice-President of Public Sector for Cisco in the European and Emerging Markets, 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.
Dr. Miriam Lips
Associate Professor, Center for Law, Public Administration and Informatisation, Tilburg University, the Netherlands
Research Fellow, Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford, UK
Dr. Miriam Lips completed her PhD in Public Administration at Erasmus University Rotterdam. Since 1996, she has worked as an associate professor at the Center for Law, Public Administration and Informatisation at Tilburg University, the Netherlands, and since 2003 also as a Research Fellow at the Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford, UK. Her research concentrates more generally on the introduction of ICTs in citizen-government relationships and their implications, with a current focus on topics like identity management, personalisation, digital citizenship, e-Governance and Internet Governance.
Gordon Macatee Deputy Minister of Labour and Citizens’ Services, Government of British Columbia and Chair of the BC Buildings Corporation, Canada
Gordon Macatee is Deputy Minister of Labour and Citizens' Services and Chair of the BC Buildings Corporation. The ministry provides a wide range of services to citizens and government, including OnLine channel delivery, Service BC offices, government IT services, and the Knowledge Network. The Ministry is also responsible for employment relations, policies and programs.
Luis T. Magalhães President, Knowledge Society Agency (UMIC) Ministry of Science, Technology and Higher Education, Portugal
President of the Knowledge Society Agency (UMIC), Ministry of Science, Technology and Higher Education, Portugal, since July 2005; Full Professor at Instituto Superior Técnico (IST) of the Universidade Técnica de Lisboa (UTL), since 1993; Correspondent Member of the Lisbon Academy of Sciences since 1995; Member of the Luso-American Foundation for Development (FLAD) Consultative Council since 1997; Member of the Scientific and Technological Council of Taguspark – Science and Technology Park since 1997.
Professor Menachem Magidor President, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Professor Menachem Magidor has been the President of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem since 1997. He was born in Petah Tikva, Israel and served in the Israeli Navy. He received his PhD in Mathematics at the Hebrew University in 1972 and became a Professor of Mathematics at his alma mater in 1982. Professor Magidor’s mathematical research focuses on Set Theory and Model Theory. He has also done research in Computer Science, dealing with Artificial Intelligence and Semantics of Programming Languages. During the past thirty years he has participated and lectured at mathematical conferences around the globe and has published numerous articles in professional journals.
Lorna Marsden, BA, PhD, HonLLD
President and Vice-Chancellor
York University, Canada
Lorna Marsden has been a member of the Board of Governors since her appointment as President and Vice-Chancellor of York University in 1997. She is an ex officio member of all Board committees, a member of the University Senate, and an ex officio member of all Senate committees. Dr. Marsden was President and Vice-Chancellor of Wilfrid Laurier University from 1992 to 1997. Between 1984 and 1992, she served as a member of the Senate of Canada. Dr. Marsden obtained a B.A. from the University of Toronto in 1968 and a Ph.D. from Princeton in 1972.
Professor Venâncio Massingue
Minister of Science and Technology
Government of Mozambique
Venâncio Massingue was born in 1960 in Chibuto district, Mozambique. In 1968 he left the district to complete his schooling in the capital Maputo (formerly Lourenço Marques). After qualifying as an electronic and electrical engineering technician in 1982, he was selected to work in the newly-established Informatics Centre (CIUEM) at Eduardo Mondlane University (UEM) and attended professional training courses in computer hardware in the UK and the Netherlands.
Laurence Millar
Deputy Commissioner, Information and Communication Technologies
State Services Commission, New Zealand
Laurence Millar began his working career in England, where he worked for ANZ and General Electric. He moved to New Zealand in 1983 with Databank Systems and in 1990 he joined the Department of Social Welfare as General Manager Information Technology. In 1993 Laurence became a senior consultant for Azimuth Consulting Ltd where he led strategic consulting and program management assignments.
Mike Moore
Former Prime Minister of New Zealand
Former Director-General, World Trade Organization
Mike Moore is a past Director-General of the World Trade Organisation (WTO). He is well-known internationally as an articulate proponent of the advantages of a free and fair global trading system. Mr. Moore is widely credited with restoring confidence in the system, following the setback of the third WTO Ministerial Conference held in Seattle in 1999, by launching the Doha Development Round. His period in office saw the successful accession to the WTO of China and Chinese Taipei along with Estonia, Jordan, Georgia, Albania, Oman, Croatia, Lithuania, and Moldova, bringing the majority of the world’s population within the rules-based trading system. He also initiated significant changes to the way the WTO operates and important organisational changes within the Secretariat by introducing a range of strategic management techniques.
Kimberly T. Nelson
Assistant Administrator for Environmental Information and Chief Information Officer
Environmental Protection Agency, US
On November 30, 2001, Kimberly Nelson was sworn into the position of Assistant Administrator for Environmental Information and Chief Information Officer, United States Environmental Protection Agency.
Prior to her joining EPA, Ms. Nelson served the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania for 22 years. During her career, she worked in the Senate of Pennsylvania, the Public Utility Commission, and the Departments of Aging and Environmental Protection.
Andreas Nemec
Chief Executive Officer
Federal Procurement Agency, Austria
Andreas Nemec is Chief Executive Officer of the Austrian Federal Procurement Agency Ltd. (www.bbg.gv.at), handling the central purchasing of Public Authorities since 2001.
He was general manager for vending business of the Leipnik Lundenburger Inc. for five years until June 2001.
Erik Nilsson
Vice Mayor of Stockholm
Head of School Division, Sweden
Erik Nilsson has been Vice Mayor of Stockholm and Head of School Division since 2002. He is Member of the Stockholm City Council for the Social Democratic Party and President of the Education Committee.
Erik Nilsson was previously the Chief of Staff at the office of the former Social Democratic Mayor of Stockholm, Mr. Mats Hulth. From 1991-1994 he was Chief Executive Director for the Swedish National Board for Youth Affairs. In 1994, he became Chief of Staff for the National Agency for Education.
David Osborne
Co-Author of Reinventing Government and Senior Partner
The Public Strategies Group, US
David Osborne is the author or co-author of five books: The Price of Government: Getting the Results We Need in an Age of Permanent Fiscal Crisis (2004); The Reinventor's Fieldbook: Tools for Transforming Your Government (2000), Banishing Bureaucracy: The Five Strategies For Reinventing Government (1997), Reinventing Government (1992), and Laboratories of Democracy (1988). He has also authored numerous articles for the Washington Post, the Atlantic, the Atlantic, Harpers, Inc., Governing, and other publications.
Viviane Reding
European Commissioner for Information Society & Media European Union
Viviane Reding born 27 April 1951 in Esch-sur-Alzette is a Luxembourg politician, currently serving as European Commissioner for Information Society and Media. Before starting a professional career as a journalist for the leading newspaper in Luxembourg, the Luxemburger Wort, she obtained a doctorate in human sciences at the Sorbonne. From 1986 to 1998, she was President of the Luxembourg Union of Journalists. She is married and has three children.
Michael Stevenson
Director of Strategy and Communications
Department for Education and Skills, UK
Michael Stevenson was appointed Director of Strategy and Communications at the Department for Education and Skills in April 2003. He is a member of the DFES Board. He was recently appointed to a new Board position, as Director of Technology, with effect from August 2005.
Until joining the Civil Service, Michael, a Classics graduate from Christ Church, Oxford, had spent his professional life in broadcasting.
Qassim Sultan Director General, Dubai Municipality, United Arab Emirates
Having a distinguished career spanning a period of over thirty years, His Excellency Qassim Sultan rose through the ranks in Dubai Municipality, United Arab Emirates, starting from the position of an Assistant Engineer to be the Director General of Dubai Municipality. He was first promoted as Assistant Director of the Technical Sector, and then held senior posts including those of the Deputy Director and the Acting Director of the Municipality before being appointed as the Director General.
Dr. Gwyn Thomas
Programme Director
Informing Healthcare
Wales Assembly Government, UK
Dr Thomas joined Informing Healthcare from the NHSIA, which was responsible for developing and managing national information & infrastructure services that supported the delivery of patient care across the NHS in England. He led the Authority through a highly productive period, overseeing its creation from the merger of a number of pre-existing organisations and shaping it to deliver an extensive portfolio of high profile national projects and services.
FF Tusubira, PhD
Director of the Directorate of ICT Support
Makerere University
Uganda, Africa
FF Tusubira was born 29th May 1952, and holds a PhD from the University of Southampton, England; an M.Sc.E from the University of New Brunswick, Canada; and a B.Sc. (Eng.) (1st Class Honours) from Makerere University, Uganda.
He has worked with Makerere University (where he now holds the rank of Associate Professor) since 1975. He is currently the Director, Directorate for ICT Support, and has held assignment as Commissioner, Uganda Communications Commission (June 1998 - Jan 2005) and member, Electricity Regulatory Authority (May 2002 - May 2005).
Les Watson
Pro Vice-Chancellor
Glasgow Caledonian University, Scotland
Les Watson is Pro Vice-Chancellor at Glasgow Caledonian University. He is a member of the University Executive and is responsible for all academically related services such as Library, Information and Communications Technology, and Student Services. He has been at Glasgow Caledonian since 1999 and previously worked as a Dean at the University of Gloucestershire.
Anders Wijkman
Member of the Committee of Industry, External Trade, Research and Energy, European Parliament
Anders Wijkman has been active on environmental and development issues for many years. As a member of the European Parliament, he focuses on industry, trade, and energy. He is the former assistant director of the Bureau for Policy and Program Support with the U.N. Development Program and was previously director general of the Swedish Agency for Research Cooperation with Developing Countries (SAREC).
Simon Willis
Global Head of eGovernment
Internet Business Solutions Group
Cisco Systems, UK
Simon Willis came to Cisco after 15 years of work in government and e-business. He has held various senior management and policy positions in the UK government including private secretary to Minister of State, head of operational reform at the Department of Social Security, head of pensions equalization and Chief Executive of a national disability agency. He ran the Financial Crime Branch at the UK Treasury and also headed numerous UK delegations to the EU, UN and OECD. After leaving government he worked for a large systems integrator where he worked mainly on transformational ebusiness projects in the financial services area.
Wayne Wouters
Secretary of the Treasury Board, Canada
Wayne Wouters became Secretary of the Treasury Board in December 2004.
Previously, Mr. Wouters was Deputy Minister, Human Resources and Skills Development Canada (HRSDC) and Chairperson, Canada Employment Insurance Commission and before that, Deputy Minister, Human Resources Development Canada (HRDC) and Chairperson, Canada Employment Insurance Commission and Deputy Minister of Labour.
