Opening

Mr. Kosaburo Nishime

State Minister for Internal Affairs and Communications

Lecturer brief history

Education:
Mar. 1979 Graduated from Faculty of Economics, Sophia University

Career:

Apr. 1979

The Okinawa Development Finance Corporation
(Loan Department, Research Department)

Oct. 1984

Secretary for Junji Nishime (Governor of Okinawa)

Jun. 1988

Member, Okinawa Prefectural Assembly (4 terms, 15 years)

Nov. 2003

Elected for the first time as a member of
the House of Representatives (HR) (43rd General Election)

Sep. 2005

Elected to the HR (44th General Election)

Aug. 2008

Parliamentary Vice-Minister of Land, Infrastructure,
Transport and Tourism (The Fukuda Reshuffled Cabinet)

Dec. 2012

Elected to the HR (46th General Election)

Jan. 2013

Chief Secretary, Special Committee for the Promotion and
Development of Okinawa, Liberal Democratic Party

Sep. 2014

State Minister for Internal Affairs and Communications
(The Second Abe Reshuffled Cabinet)

Mr. Yoshihiro Seki

Parliamentary Vice-Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry

Lecturer brief history

Mr. Yoshihiro Seki was appointed Parliamentary Vice-Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry on September, 4, 2014.

Most recently, Mr. Seki served as Chairperson of the Liberal Democratic Party's (LDP) Committee on Organizations Involved with Transport and Transportation. Previously, he held senior posts in Japan's House of Representatives and the LDP including Director, Special Committee on Okinawa and Northern Problems (House of Representatives), Deputy Secretary-General (LDP.)

Mr. Seki represents constituents of Hyogo's 3rd district in the House of Representatives, first winning election in 2005. Prior to gaining elected office, Mr. Seki had a career in finance, working for Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation for more than 15 years.

A graduate of Kwansei Gakuin University's School of Economics, Mr. Seki is currently enrolled at MBA Programme at HABS, validated and awarded by the University of Wales.

Ms. Mari Kiviniemi

Deputy Secretary-General, OECD

Lecturer brief history

Mari Kiviniemi took up her duties as OECD Deputy Secretary-General on 25th August 2014. Her role consists of sharing her extensive experience to help increase the impact and relevance of OECD work and to contribute to the public policy challenges of promoting inclusive growth, jobs, equality and trust.

She is responsible for the strategic oversight of the OECD's work on Efficient and Effective Governance; Territorial Development; Trade and Agriculture, as well as Statistics. She is also responsible for advancing the Better Life Initiative.

Ms. Kiviniemi was Finland's Prime Minister from 2010-2011, the second woman in the history of the country. She had previously been Minister of Public Administration and Local Government, Minister for Foreign Trade and Development, and Minister for European Affairs. Elected for the first time at the age of 26, she has been a Member of Parliament since 1995, chairing and participating in a vast number of committees. She also held a variety of leadership positions in her political party, the Finnish Center Party.

An economist by training, she studied political science at the University of Helsinki and holds a Master's degree in Social Sciences. Born in 1968, she is married and has two children.

Keynote

Mr. Kenneth Cukier

The Economist

Lecturer brief history

Kenneth Cukier is the Data Editor of The Economist in London and co-author of the award-winning book “Big Data: A Revolution That Transforms How We Live, Work, and Think” with Viktor Mayer-Schönberger in 2013, a New York Times Bestseller translated into 20 languages. From 2007-2012 he was the paper's Tokyo correspondent.

Mr Cukier is a regular commentator on BBC, CNN and NPR, among others. In 2002-04 he was a research fellow at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. He is a board director of International Bridges to Justice and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

Session1 “Illustrating the economic benefits”

Moderator

Mr. Andrew Wyckoff

Director for Science, Technology and Innovation, OECD

Lecturer brief history

Andrew W. Wyckoff is the Director of the OECD's Directorate for Science, Technology and Innovation (STI) where he oversees OECD's work on innovation, business dynamics, science and technology, information and communication technology policy as well as the statistical work associated with each of these areas.

From 2005 to 2009 Mr. Wyckoff was Head of the Information, Computer and Communications Policy (ICCP) division at the OECD which supports the organisation's work on information society as well as consumer policy issues. During this period he took responsibility for the organisation of the OECD Ministerial Meeting on the Future of the Internet Economy in Seoul (17-18 June 2008) which resulted in the 2008 Seoul Declaration for the Future of the Internet Economy. Before heading ICCP, he was the head of STI's Economic Analysis and Statistics Division, which develops methodological guidelines, collects statistics and undertakes empirical analysis in support of science, technology and innovation policy analysis.

He has served on various advisory groups and panels which currently include co-chairing the US National Academies' panel on Developing Science, Technology and Innovation Indicators for the Future, being a member of the Research Advisory Network for the Global Commission on Internet Governance and being a named to the Malaysian Prime Minister's Global Science and Innovation Advisory Council.

His experience prior to the OECD includes being the Program Manger of the Information Technology and Commerce Program at the US Congressional Office of Technology Assessment (OTA), the US National Science Foundation (NSF) and The Brookings Institution.

Mr. Wyckoff is a citizen of the United States, holds a BA in Economics from the University of Vermont, and a Master of Public Policy from the JFK School of Government, Harvard University.

Panellist

Mr. Tsuneo Kawatsuma

CTO and CIO, Fujitsu

Lecturer brief history

Apr. 1977

Joined Fujitsu Limited

Jun. 2003

President, Network Services Business Unit

Jun. 2006

Corporate Vice President
President, Network Services Business Unit

Jun. 2008

Corporate Senior Vice President
Executive Vice President, IT Services Business Group

Dec. 2009

Corporate Senior Vice President
President, Convergence Services Business Group
President, Telematics Services Business Unit
Executive Vice President, IT Services Business Group

Apr. 2012

Corporate Senior Vice President
Executive Vice President, Marketing (In charge of Convergence Services)
Head of Intelligent Services Business Unit
General Manager, Intelligent Computing Division

Oct. 2012

Corporate Senior Vice President
Executive Vice President, Marketing (In charge of Products Strategy)
Head of Convergence Services Business Unit
General Manager, Intelligent Computing Division

May. 2013

Corporate Senior Vice President
Executive Vice President, Marketing （In charge of Products Strategy, Innovation）

Apr. 2014

CTO & CIO

Panellist

Mr. Junichi Hasegawa

Director, Chief Strategy Officer, Preferred Networks, Inc.

Lecturer brief history

Junichi Hasegawa joined Sony in 1986. He was trained there in the spirit of Akio Morita and Masaru Ibuka: “Do what others don't. Succeed through excellent technology.” He served in the Video division, PC division, the IT laboratory and became the head and system architect of Sony's BSC Platform Technology department, responsible for research and development of the B2B division. After that, he was involved in the development of the PlayStation 3 and network services. In 2009 Mr. Hasegawa discovered Preferred Infrastructure (PFI) while surveying data analysis technologies. In 2011, he decided to join PFI, convinced that Toru Nishikawa and Daisuke Okanohara will be for the young company what Morita and Ibuka were for Sony. In the same year, PFI was featured on the front page of the Japanese newspaper The Nikkei as a “raw diamond” also targeted by Google. Also in that year, PFI started development of the Open Source machine learning software Jubatus in cooperation with the research branch of NTT, Japan's largest telecommunications company. In 2014, Mr. Hasegawa co-founded Preferred Networks (PFN) in order to focus on the development of technology that will enable the Internet of Things.

Panellist

Mr. Claro Parlade

Senior Privacy Counsel, Asia-Pacific, Google

Lecturer brief history

CLARO V. PARLADE is the Privacy Lead for Google's Public Policy Team covering Asia Pacific, Middle East, Africa and Russia. As Senior Privacy Counsel, Asia-Pacific based in Singapore, he represents Google on all initiatives, activities and other privacy-related matters in his region. Prior to joining Google, he was Director for Software Policy for Asia-Pacific of the Business Software Alliance (BSA). Before moving to Singapore, he practiced law in the Philippines for almost two decades, most recently as a Senior Partner at the Parlade Hildawa Parlade Eco & Panga Law Offices (PHPEPLAW). He obtained his AB Economics Degree and his Bachelor of Laws from the University of the Philippines. He completed a specialized Masters of Law in Dispute Resolution at Osgoode School of Law, York University, Canada. He is an internationally published author of a book on foreign investments (published and distributed worldwide by Sweet & Maxwell Asia) and numerous other legal articles in domestic and international publications.

Panellist

Mr. Jakob Haesler

Startup entrepreneur

Lecturer brief history

Jakob is a Paris-based entrepreneur. He is co-founder of tinyclues, a Paris-based Big Data startup whose mission is to help its clients better exploit their CRM-data with the help of advanced machine learning algorithms.

He is a member of the expert panel on the OECD wide project on “Data and Analytics as a New Source of Growth”. Furthermore he was a contributor to the “observatoire de l' innovation” at the Institut de l' Entreprise..

In 2012/2013 Jakob was selected as one of Europanovas's “40under40” European Young Leaders.

Prior to founding tinyclues, Jakob was a partner and consultant at McKinsey & Company in Germany and France where he worked on topics ranging from Banking, and Software Strategy to Public Sector Reform, Healthcare and Global Public Health issues, notably the creation and distribution of children HIV treatments. Before joining McKinsey, he made a brief stint at the World Bank. He holds an MPA from Harvard's Kennedy School of Government and a lic.oec. from the University of St.Gallen. Jakob is also a founding partner of the “Cercle du leadership" a Paris-based think tank.

Session4 “Promoting skills for the data-driven economy”

Moderator

Mr. Christian Reimsbach-Kounatze

Information Economist/Policy Analyst, Division for Digital Economy Policy, DSTI, OECD

Lecturer brief history

Christian Reimsbach-Kounatze is an Information Economist / Policy Analyst at the OECD Directorate for Science, Technology and Innovation (STI). Christian has been working at STI on issues related to the digital economy since 2008. This includes in particular work on the economic performance of the world largest ICT firms, the impact of ICTs on skills and employment, and recent work on the economics of “big data”. He currently coordinates the OECD project on “Data-Driven Innovation for Growth and Well-Being” (http://oe.cd/bigdata).

Before joining the OECD, Christian worked as a researcher at the Institute for Information and Market Engineering of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and at SAP Research (Germany) on issues related to cloud computing, decentralised incentives mechanisms, and the economic impact of ICTs on financial markets. He also worked as an IT consultant in a start-up (Acarda, Luxembourg) on business intelligence (BI) applications for the investment banking sector. Christian holds a Diploma (Master of Science) in Information Science, Engineering and Management and a Diploma in Economics, both granted by the KIT.

Panellist

Prof. Hiroyuki Morikawa

The University of Tokyo, Vice Chair of the OECD Committee on Digital Economy Policy

Lecturer brief history

Hiroyuki Morikawa received the B.E., M.E, and Dr. Eng. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, in 1987, 1989, and 1992, respectively. Since 1992, he had been in the University of Tokyo and is currently a full professor of the Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology at the University of Tokyo. From 1997 to 1998, he stayed in Columbia University as a visiting research associate. From 2002 to 2006, he was a group leader of the NICT Mobile Networking Group. His research interests are in the areas of ubiquitous networks, sensor networks, big data / M2M, wireless communications, and network services. He served as a technical program committee chair of many IEEE/ACM conferences and workshops, Director of IEICE, Editor-in-Chief of IEICE Transactions of Communications, OECD/CDEP vice chair, chair of new generation M2M consortium, and he sits on numerous telecommunications advisory committees and frequently serves as a consultant to government and companies. He has received more than 40 awards including the IEICE best paper award in 2002, 2004, and 2010, the IPSJ best paper award in 2006, the Info-Communications Promotion Month Council President Prize in 2008, the NTT DoCoMo Mobile Science Award in 2009, the Rinzaburo Shida Award in 2010, and the Radio Day Ministrial Commendation in 2014.

Panellist

Dr. Kazuto Ataka

Chief Strategy Officer, Yahoo Japan Corporation

Lecturer brief history

Kazuto ATAKA is Chief Strategy Officer of Yahoo Japan Corporation where he covers wide range of strategic issues, including market insight, market intelligence, corporate-wide business development, cross-functional problem solving, and big data strategy.

He also serves as a Director of Japanese Society of Applied Statistics as well as a Director of The Japan Data Scientist Society, where he is the chair of Skill Definition Committee.

Before joining Yahoo Japan, Kazuto spent 11 years at McKinsey & Company, Tokyo office, where he was a leadership member of Consumer Goods and Marketing Practice Group in Asia-Pacific region with a particular focus on marketing-based business/brand turnaround based on deep customer insight leveraging behavioral research together with various big data.

Kazuto holds Ph.D. in Neuroscience from Yale University, and MS in Biophysics and Biochemistry from University of Tokyo. He was a postdoctoral associate at Yale School of Medicine, Department of Cellular and Molecular Physiology, and is an active contributor of numerous big data-related conferences in Japan, often as a keynote speaker. He is author of a book “Issue Driven”, which was sold more than 100K copies in Japan, and was translated in both Chinese and Korean.

Panellist

Dr. rer. pol. Dirk Solte

Deputy Director, Research Institute for Applied Knowledge Processing, Ulm

Lecturer brief history

Dirk Solte is Deputy Director at the Research Institute for Applied Knowledge Processing/n in Ulm (FAW/n - Forschungsinstitut für anwendungsorientierte Wissensverarbeitung/n).

He studied Industrial Engineering and Management (Wirtschaftsingenieurwesen) at the University Karlsruhe (KIT), holding a PhD. His Habilitation is in Business Economics at the University St. Gallen (HSG, Switzerland) where he is PD (Priv.-Doz.). At the Economic Senate Germany (Senat der Wirtschaft) and the Global Economic Network he is Director of „Economics and Financial Markets”.
As a scientific consultant for sustainability he supported the Foundation “Forum for Responsibility” (Forum für Verantwortung).

When FAW/n was founded Dirk Solte worked about twenty years in the field of AI and knowledge management, responsible for the application area software engineering, distributed systems and communication technologies, consulting large companies in ICT, automotive, finance and public authorities.

One focus of his current work is all about the impact of the world financial system with its significant changes due to deregulation and technological innovations. This is imbedded in an overall macro analysis of the patterns of operation in the global economic system in the context of sustainability.

He is author of several books in these fields.

Panellist

Dr. Devdatt Dubhashi

Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering

Lecturer brief history

Devdatt Dubhashi is Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Chalmers and Gothenburg University Sweden, where he leads the Algorithms, Machine Learning and Computational Biology group. He received his B.Tech in Computer Science and Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi and his masters and Ph.D. in Computer Science from Cornell University U.S.A. He was a postdoctoral fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Computer Science in Saabruecken Germany, a research assistant professor at BRICS (Basic Research in Computer Science) a Center of the Danish National Science Foundation at the University of Aarhus, Denmark and an assistant professor at IIT Delhi before taking up his current position. He is the author of over 50 publications and the book "Concentration of Measure for the Analysis of Algorithms" (Cambridge University Press 2009). His main research interests currently are in the intersection of algorithms, machine learning and computational biology. He leads two large national project on Big Data analytics funded by the Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research (SSF) and the Swedish National Research council (VR).

Session5 “Building trust in the data-driven economy”

Moderator

Prof. Fumio Shimpo

Keio University, Vice Chair of the OECD Working Party on Security and Privacy in the Digital Economy

Lecturer brief history

Fumio Shimpo is Professor of the Faculty of Policy Management, Keio University. Teaching currently Constitutional Law, Information-Law and Jurisprudence.

He has served as a committee member of several councils within the Government of Japan as a specialist in privacy and information security. He has been responsible as a Vice-Chair and Japanese Delegate for the OECD Working Party on Security and Privacy in the Digital Economy (SPDE) since 2009, formerly known as the Working Party on Information Security and Privacy (WPISP).

Director of the Constitutional Law Society of Japan, Director of the Law and Computer Society of Japan, Auditor of the Japan Society of Information and Communication Research. A Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Information and Communications Policy of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications.

Dr. Shimpo has widely published in the field of privacy, data protection and information law and has won several awards such as the 18th Telecom Social Science Incentive Award of the Telecommunications Dissemination Foundation.

Lead speaker

Ms. Julie Brill

Commissioner of the Federal Trade Commission, United States

Lecturer brief history

Julie Brill was sworn in as a Commissioner of the Federal Trade Commission April 6, 2010. Since joining the Commission, Ms. Brill has been working actively on issues of critical importance to today's consumers, including protecting consumers' privacy, encouraging appropriate advertising substantiation, guarding consumers from financial fraud, and maintaining competition in industries involving health care and high-tech.

Commissioner Brill has been named “the Commission's most important voice on Internet privacy and data security issues” and a “key regulator not just on a national, but also on an international, stage” as well as “one of the top minds in online privacy”, one of the top four U.S. government players “leading the data privacy debate”, and a “game-changer”.

Commissioner Brill is an advocate of protecting consumers' privacy, especially with new online and mobile technologies, and supports the creation and implementation of mechanisms to give consumers better information and control over the collection and use of their personal online information. In her speeches, publications and meetings with a wide variety of stakeholders, Commissioner Brill calls on industry and policymakers to improve privacy by developing practical solutions rooted in both consumer protection and competition principles.

Commissioner Brill focuses on the need to improve consumer protection in the financial services arena. She advocates improving regulations and enforcement involving credit reporting, debt collection and in other financial areas. She is particularly interested in combatting frauds targeting consumers caught up in the economic downturn. She strongly supports increased cooperation among the FTC, the CFPB, and the States as they implement the provisions of the 2010 Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act.

Commissioner Brill also advocates for effective antitrust enforcement, especially in the health care and high-tech sectors. She wrote the Commission's unanimous decision in ProMedica, dissolving the merger of two hospitals in Toledo, Ohio. Commissioner Brill's ProMedica decision was recently upheld on appeal by the Sixth Circuit of the United States Circuit Court. Her decisions in high tech competition matters such as Google, Intel, and the proposed mergers of IDT/PLX. Honeywell International Inc./Intermec, Inc., and Nielsen/Arbitron demonstrate smart and effective competition enforcement in the high tech sector.

Commissioner Brill has received numerous national awards for her work, including the International Association of Privacy Professionals Privacy Leader of the Year Award, and the New York University School of Law Alumna of the Year Award. Commissioner Brill was recently elected to the American Law Institute.

Prior to becoming a Commissioner, Ms. Brill was the Senior Deputy Attorney General and Chief of Consumer Protection and Antitrust for the North Carolina Department of Justice. Commissioner Brill has also been a Lecturer-in-Law at Columbia University's School of Law. Before serving as Chief of Consumer Protection and Antitrust in North Carolina, Commissioner Brill served as an Assistant Attorney General for Consumer Protection and Antitrust for the State of Vermont for over 20 years. Prior to coming to the Vermont Attorney General's office, Commissioner Brill was an associate at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison in New York. She clerked for Vermont Federal District Court Judge Franklin S. Billings, Jr. Commissioner Brill graduated, magna cum laude, from Princeton University, and from New York University School of Law, where she had a Root-Tilden Scholarship for her commitment to public service.

Panellist

Dr. Jack R Dan

National General Manager for Government, Telstra, on behalf of BIAC

Lecturer brief history

Dr. Jack R. Dan is the National General Manger for Government at Telstra, with responsibility across strategy, thought leadership, business and capability development, business relationship and customer engagement for the government sector. Working closely with the government sector, Jack is driving strategic conversations with customers to recognise and meet technology challenges head on and realise business and productivity benefits.

Jack is also leading Telstra's premier research and thought leadership program, Connected Government Program, aimed at assisting government leaders in addressing the challenges they face in policy development, service delivery and implementation of government programs.

With over 15 years experience in working with government customers to drive business enabling strategies, Jack has a deep knowledge of the public sector. This background, as well his experience ranging from start-up companies in Europe to working with large multinational companies in Australia, gives Jack a unique perspective on the challenges of the public sector, and ultimately delivering for the community.

Jack holds a number of degrees, including a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) and a Master of Management, both from the Australian National University. Jack is also a Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.

Panellist

Mr. Marc Rotenberg

President and Executive Director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC), on behalf of CSISAC

Lecturer brief history

Marc Rotenberg is President and Executive Director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) in Washington, D.C. He teaches Information Privacy Law and Open Government Laws at Georgetown University Law Center, and testifies frequently before Congress on emerging privacy and civil liberties issues, such as access to information, encryption policy, consumer protection, computer security and communications privacy. He is a frequent guest on Bloomberg TV, CNN, C-SPAN, MSNBC, FoxNews and National Public Radio, and contributes to The Economist, The New York Times, and USA Today.

He testified before the 9-11 Commission on "Security and Liberty: Protecting Privacy, Preventing Terrorism." He has authored more than 50 "friend of the court" briefs on law and technology, including Riley v. California (US 2014), which established privacy rights for cell phone users. He has litigated important cases, including EPIC v. DHS, 653 F.3d 1 (D.C. Cir. 2011), which established the right of air travelers to opt-out of airport body scanners. He has successfully litigated open government cases against many US federal agencies including the CIA, the Dept. of Education, the FBI, the DOJ, the FBI, the NSA, the ODNI, and the TSA. He has successfully pursued consumer privacy complaints before the US Federal Trade Commission, concerning Choicepoint, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Snapchat and WhatsApp.

Rotenberg has served on several national and international advisory panels, including the expert panels on Cryptography Policy and Computer Security for the OECD, the Legal Experts on Cyberspace Law for UNESCO, and the Countering Spam program of the ITU. He chairs the ABA Committee on Privacy and Information Protection. He is a former Chair of the Public Interest Registry, which manages the .ORG domain. In 2010, he was named the North America representative to the At-Large Advisory Committee of ICANN. Marc has given invited lectures in more than 30 countries around the world, and has spoken at judicial conferences in Canada, France, South Korea, and the United States.

Marc has helped establish several organizations that promote public understanding of computer technology and encourage civil society participation in decisions concerning the future of the Internet. These include the Public Interest Computer Association (1983), the Public Voice Coalition (1996), the Public Interest Registry (2003), and the Civil Society Information Society Advisory Council to the OECD (2009).
Marc Rotenberg is editor of Privacy and Human Rights: An International Survey of Privacy Laws and Developments (EPIC 2006), Privacy Law Sourcebook: United States Law, International Law, and Recent Developments (EPIC 2004), Under the Federal Open Government Laws (EPIC 2010), and co-editor of Privacy Law (Aspen Publishing 2007) and "Privacy and Technology: The New Frontier" (MIT Press 1999).
He is editor of the forthcoming "Visions of Privacy: The Search of Solutions" (The New Press: 2015).

Marc Rotenberg is an honors graduate of Harvard College and Stanford Law School. He received an LLM in International and Comparative Law from Georgetown University Law Center for his work on international privacy law. He served as Counsel to Senator Patrick J. Leahy on the Senate Judiciary Committee after graduating from law school.

He is a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation, and the recipient of several awards including the World Technology Award in Law, the Norbert Wiener Award for Social and Professional Responsibility, the American Lawyer Top Lawyers Under 45, and the Vicennial Medal (2012) from Georgetown University for distinguished service. Marc Rotenberg was named one of the leading lawyers in the United States by LawDragon (2013-3014).

A tournament chess player, Rotenberg is a three-time Washington, D.C. Chess Champion (2007, 2008, 2010) and works to promote chess in the D.C. public schools in cooperation with the U.S. Chess Center, the recipient of the 2012 USCF National Scholastic Service Award. He lives in Washington, DC.

Panellist

Mr. Jeff Bullwinkel

Associate General Counsel and Director of Legal & Corporate Affairs, Asia Pacific/Japan, Microsoft

Lecturer brief history

Jeff Bullwinkel serves as Microsoft's Associate General Counsel and Regional Director of Legal and Corporate Affairs for Asia Pacific & Japan. He is based in Singapore and oversees Microsoft's legal and corporate affairs teams across the region. That includes, among other things, supporting commercial transactions and providing regulatory counsel to business groups on public policy issues such as intellectual property rights, privacy, internet security and safety, competition, and international trade. Mr. Bullwinkel joined Microsoft in 2000 and was initially based in Hong Kong, where he managed the company's public policy activities in the Asia Pacific region.

Prior to joining Microsoft, Mr. Bullwinkel was with Simpson Thacher & Bartlett, an international law firm based in New York. Mr. Bullwinkel also served as a federal prosecutor with the Office of International Affairs, Criminal Division, US Department of Justice, from 1996-2000. At US DoJ, he was responsible for a wide range of matters relating to international law, including negotiating bilateral treaties and multilateral conventions on international cooperation in criminal matters and providing advice on international law to the Office of the Attorney General.

Mr. Bullwinkel is originally from the New York area. He graduated from Duke University with a Bachelor of Arts degree and received his law degree from New York University. He is a member of the New York State Bar.

Panellist

Mr. David Smith

Deputy Commissioner and Director of Data Protection
Information Commissioner's Office, UK

Lecturer brief history

David Smith is the Deputy Commissioner with responsibility for the Data Protection supervisory functions of the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) based in Wilmslow, Cheshire.

As well as providing Data Protection leadership across the Information Commissioner's Office, David has direct responsibility for oversight of its Strategic Liaison Division which develops and manages the ICO's relations with its key stakeholders. He is a member of both the Commissioner's Management Board and Executive Team.

The international aspects of David's work involve him in representing the UK on the Article 29 Working Party of European Supervisory Authorities set up under the Data Protection Directive. In addition he was the Chairman of the data protection supervisory body for Europol from October 2006 to October 2009.