International Advisory Board

Peng Hwa Ang

Director, Singapore Internet Research Centre at the Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Member, International Advisory Board
Professor Ang Peng Hwa is Director of the Singapore Internet Research Centre at the Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He is the author of Ordering Chaos: Regulating the Internet (Thomson, 2005), which argues that the internet can be, is being and should be regulated. He was a member of 40-strong Working Group on Internet Governance appointed by the UN Secretary-General for 2004-2005. He was the head of the Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information for 2003-2008. Most recently, he was on sabbatical in India in Ahmedabad where he helped start the Mudra Institute of Communication Research.

Lewis M. Branscomb

Aetna Professor of Public Policy and Corporate Management (emeritus), Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government
Member of the International Advisory Board
Lewis M. Branscomb is Aetna Professor of Public Policy and Corporate Management (emeritus) in Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government. Until July 1996, he directed the school's Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program in the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. He currently holds two appointments at the University of California at San Diego, Adjunct Professor in the School for International Relations and Pacific Studies (IRPS) and Research Associate in the Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO). His current research focuses on domestic and international research and innovation policy, information infrastructure, policies to make the world safer and more secure from disasters, and on the management of science and technology in the furtherance of democratic governance, economic equity and safety and security. Dr. Branscomb was graduated BA in physics from Duke University summa cum laude in 1945.
He served as a junior officer in the US Naval Reserve in the Philippines during World War II. He received his PhD in physics from Harvard in 1949, when he was appointed Junior Fellow in the Harvard Society of Fellows. A research physicist at the U.S. National Bureau of Standards (NBS, now the National Institute for Standards and Technology) from 1951 to 1972, he, with Stephen J. Smith, founded the crossed-beam study of structure and spectra of atomic and molecular negative ions, and applied this knowledge to chemical aeronomy, stellar atmospheres and ionized hypersonic wakes. He served as Editor of the Reviews of Modern Physics from 1963-1969 and was President of the American Physical Society in 1979. He was the first Chairman of the Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics (JILA) in Boulder, CO. He was appointed Director of NBS by President Nixon in 1969. In 1972 he was named vice president and chief scientist of IBM Corporation and later a member of the IBM Corporate Management Board. In 1980 President Carter appointed him to the National Science Board and in 1980 he was elected chairman serving until May 1984. Branscomb was appointed by President Johnson to the President's Science Advisory Committee (1964-1968) and by President Reagan to the National Productivity Advisory Committee. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, the National Academy of Sciences, the Institute of Medicine and the National Academy of Public Administration. He served on the Technology Assessment Advisory Committee to the Technology Assessment Board of the United States Congress, and in 1991 was appointed to the Massachusetts Governor's Council on Economic Growth and Technology. He holds honorary doctorates from fifteen universities. He has served as a director of four corporations (Mobil, General Foods, MITRE, and Draper Laboratories) still serves as a director of Lord Corporation in Cary, NC. For a continuous period of 57 years he and/or his father B. Harvie Branscomb served as trustees of Vanderbilt University. He has been a trustee of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, and the National Geographic Society. From 1984 to 1986 was an Overseer of Harvard University. In December, 1998, he was awarded the Okawa Prize "for outstanding contributions to the progress of informatics, scientific and technological policy and corporate management." Prof. Branscomb has written extensively on information technology, comparative science and technology policy, and management of technology. His books include: * Taking Technical Risks: How Innovators, Executives, and Investors Manage High-Tech Risks (with Philip E. Auerswald, 2001),
* Making the Nation Safer: The Role of Science and Technology in Countering Terrorism (co-chaired with Richard Klausner, Committee on S&T for Countering Terrorism, National Academies, 2002), and
* Seeds of Disaster, Roots of Response: How Private Action can Reduce Public Vulnerability (with P. Auerswald, Todd M. LaPorte, and E. Michel-Kerjan, Cambridge University Press, September 2006).

Herbert Burkert

Member, International Advisory Board
President of the FIR-HSG and Titulary Professor in Public Law with particular focus on Information and Communications La

Cary Coglianese

Deputy Dean and Edward B. Shils Professor of Law and Professor of Political Science; Director, Penn Program on Regulation
Member, International Advisory Board
Cary Coglianese specializes in the study of regulation and regulatory processes, with a particular emphasis on the empirical evaluation of alternative regulatory strategies and the role of conflict and cooperation in business-government relations. His recent books include: Import Safety: Regulatory Governance in the Global Economy; Regulation and Regulatory Processes; and Leveraging the Private Sector: Management-Based Strategies for Improving Environmental Performance. He has also recently written on climate change policy, public participation and transparency in federal rulemaking, and voluntary environmental programs. Coglianese was a founding editor of the peer-reviewed journal Regulation & Governance, and he currently serves on the board of the American Bar Association’s Section on Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice.

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E-mail: 
cary_coglianeseatlaw [dot] upenn [dot] edu
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http://www.law.upenn.edu/cf/faculty/ccoglian/

Edward W. Felten

Member, International Advisory Board
Professor of Computer Science and Public Affairs, Princeton University
Director of Princeton's Center for Information Technology Policy (CITP)
Professor Edward W. Felten is professor of computer science and public affairs at Princeton University, and the Director of Princeton's Center for Information Technology Policy (CITP), a cross-disciplinary effort studying digital technologies in public life. CITP has seventeen affiliated faculty members and maintains a diverse research program and a busy events schedule. His research interests include computer security and privacy, and public policy issues relating to information technology. Specific topics include software security, Internet security, electronic voting, cybersecurity policy, technology for government transparency, network neutrality and Internet policy. He often blogs about technology and policy at his famed blog Freedom to Tinker.

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E-mail: 
feltenatcs [dot] princeton [dot] edu
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http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~felten/

Paul M. Schwartz

Member, International Advisory Board
Professor of Law, UC Berkeley School of Law
Paul M. Schwartz is Professor of Law at UC Berkeley School of Law. A leading international expert on information privacy, copyright, telecommunications and information law, he has published widely on these topics. In the US, his articles and essays have appeared in periodicals such as the Harvard Law Review, Yale Law Journal, Stanford Law Review, Columbia Law Review, Michigan Law Review, and N.Y.U. Law Review. His co-authored books include Data Privacy Law (1996, supp. 1998) and Data Protection Law and On-line Services: Regulatory Responses (1998), a study carried out for the Commission of the European Union that examines emerging issues in Internet privacy in four European countries. Professor Schwartz has provided advice and testimony to numerous governmental bodies in the United States and Europe.
During 2002-2003, he was in residence as a Berlin Prize Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin and as a Transatlantic Fellow at the German Marshall Fund in Brussels. He has also acted as an advisor to the Commission of the European Union on privacy issues. On behalf of the Practising Law Institute, he has served as co-chair for a series of Annual Institutes on Privacy Law in New York and San Francisco. Paul Schwartz is a graduate of Yale Law School, where he served as a senior editor of the Yale Law Journal. He received his undergraduate education at Brown University.

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professoratpaulschwartz [dot] net
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http://www.paulschwartz.net/

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