Daniel W. Caprio, Jr. is President and CEO of DC Strategies, LLC. Mr. Caprio brings nearly 25 years of practical policy experience to issues involving the convergence of internet, telecommunications and technology policy including privacy, cyber security, innovation, and radio frequency identification (RFID). He was appointed by Secretary Michael Chertoff to serve on the Department of Homeland Security Data Privacy and Integrity Advisory Committee in July 2007. From 2004-2006 Caprio served as Chief Privacy Officer for the Department of Commerce, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Technology Policy, and Acting Assistant Secretary for Technology Policy where he advised the Under Secretary for Technology, the Secretary of Commerce, and the White House on technology policy issues and privacy protection in the digital age. Following the Department of Commerce he served as President of the Progress & Freedom Foundation. Prior to working at the Department of Commerce, Caprio served for six years as Chief of Staff to Federal Trade Commissioner Orson Swindle, where he worked as principal technology policy advisor with specific emphasis on information security, privacy, and global electronic commerce. In December 2001, Caprio was appointed to the United States Government Experts Group to revise the OECD Guidelines for the Security of Information Systems and Networks.
Leonardo Cervera Navas is the Internal Market and Services Policy Officer and Legal Adviser in EU Policy and International for the European Commission. Cervera obtained a law degree in Málaga University (1992), specialised in law of the European Unión and established the law firm "Cervera de la Cruz Abogados" with his wife, Teresa de la Cruz Trainor. During these years he also collaborated with the Department of International Public Law of the Faculty of Law of Málaga University. In September 1999, he moved to Brussels to work as an official for the European Commission. He works as an administrator in the Internal Market and Services Directorate General, in the unit dealing with the European policy in the area of copyright. He took taking part in the US Fellowship Programme of the European Commission as EU Fellow at Duke University. Previously (1999-2005), Cervera worked in the unit dealing with the Europan policy for personal data protection. In 2005 he received the Barbara Wellbery Award. He has published several academic articles on both domains.
John W. Kropf serves as the Deputy Chief Privacy Officer and Senior Adviser for International Privacy Policy in the Privacy Office with the DHS. He serves as a key adviser to DHS's Chief Privacy Officer and other DHS leadership on issues related to compliance with privacy laws, DHS polices programs and agreements that adhere to fair information principles as well as chief operation officer and policy strategist for the Privacy Office. Kropf also oversees the Office’s international privacy work and has represented the Department on U.S. Government delegations to the OECD, APEC and served as adviser to various international negotiations. Before joining DHS, Kropf worked ten years as an international lawyer with the U.S. Department of State in the Office of the Legal Adviser. He also served two years with the American Embassy in Turkmenistan where he was served as Country Director for USAID. He began his federal career as an attorney with the U.S. Department of Justice Honors Program. Kropf earned his law degree and a Masters of Public and International Affairs from the University of Pittsburgh. He is a member of bars of Pennsylvania and the District of Columbia. He and has published numerous articles on the global privacy issues.
Kenneth Mortensen is the Acting Chief Privacy and Civil Liberties Officer at U.S. Department of Justice. In this capacity he serves as the primary policy advisor to the Attorney General and Deputy Attorney General on privacy and civil liberties matters concerning agency operations and policy development. Mortensen oversees the strategic implementation of privacy and civil liberties policy throughout the Department and supports the creation and implementation of authoritative policy governing information technology development to safeguard the privacy and civil liberties of individuals about whom the Department collects, uses, maintains, and disseminates personal information. Mortensen works to maximize the operational thresholds for national security and law enforcement activities while amplifying privacy and civil liberties. He supervises the Office of Privacy and Civil Liberties and ss the Senior Agency Official for Privacy, reviews the Department’s mission operations to ensure effective compliance with appropriate privacy and civil liberties authorities, including implementation of privacy and civil liberties compliance operations, interaction with international data protection authorities, development of strategic plan for privacy and civil liberties, and interpretation of domestic and international privacy law. Mortensen also coordinates the Departmental oversight concerning privacy and civil liberties in all aspects of the Department’s mission, especially with regard to information sharing and intelligence.
Gregory T. Nojeim is a Senior Counsel at the Center for Democracy & Technology and the Director of its Project on Freedom, Security & Technology. In this capacity, Mr. Nojeim conducts much of CDT’s work in the areas of national security, terrorism, and Fourth Amendment protections. Nojeim is also Co-Chair of the Coordinating Committee on National Security and Civil Liberties of the Individual Rights and Responsibilities Section of the American Bar Association. Nojeim works to limit the threat to privacy posed by governmental wiretapping and monitoring of Internet communications. He has substantial expertise on the application of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act and on the civil liberties protections it affords. Other areas of his expertise include governmental data mining, civil liberties protections for information sharing, the PATRIOT Act, and the state secrets privilege. Nojeim frequently testifies before congressional committees and the various commissions Congress establishes on anti-terrorism legislation and aviation security legislation. Prior to joining CDT in May 2007, Mr. Nojeim was for five years a Legislative Counsel at the American Civil Liberties Union and for seven years the Associate Director and Chief Legislative Counsel of the ACLU’s Washington Legislative Office. There, he was responsible for analyzing the civil liberties implications of federal legislation relating to terrorism, national security, immigration and informational privacy. He graduated Magna Cum Laude from the University of Rochester in 1981, where he studied Political Science. He received his J.D. from the University of Virginia in 1985 and sat on the Editorial Board of the Virginia Journal of International Law.
Kenneth R. Propp, a senior attorney in the Office of the Legal Adviser, Law Enforcement and Intelligence, U.S. Department of State, has been the Department’s lead negotiator for a series of international agreements in recent years relating to law enforcement and border security information-sharing and privacy. These include: 2008 agreements with European Union member states on sharing of biometric criminal history data; the 2007 U.S.-European Union Passenger Name Record (PNR) Agreement; the 2007 U.S.-European Community SWIFT arrangement; the 2007 U.S.-EU Agreement on Security of Classified Information; U.S. agreements with the EU law enforcement organizations Europol and Eurojust; and the 2003 U.S.-EU Mutual Legal Assistance agreement.
David H. Schanzer is a Visiting Associate Professor of the Practice at Duke University, Adjunct Professor of Public Policy at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, and Director of the Triangle Center on Terrorism and Homeland Security, a research consortium between Duke, UNC Chapel Hill, and RTI International. In these capacities, he teaches courses on counterterrorism strategy, counterterrorism law, and homeland security. He also serves as the Director for Strategy and Outreach for the Institute of Homeland Security Solutions, a research consortium focused on applied social science research for homeland security. Prior to his academic appointments, Schanzer was the Democratic Staff Director for the House of Representatives Committee on Homeland Security from 2003-2005. He served as the legislative director for Senator Jean Carnahan (2001-2002), counsel to Senator Joseph R. Biden, Jr. (1996-1998), and counsel to Senator William S. Cohen (1994-1996). His positions in the executive branch include Special Counsel, Office of General Counsel, Department of Defense (1998-2001) and Trial Attorney, United States Department of Justice (1992-94). Schanzer was a clerk for United States District Judge Norma L. Shapiro and in the Office of the Solicitor General of the United States.
Guy Stessens was awarded the degree of Licentiate of Law, magna cum laude, in 1992 at the University of Antwerp, Belgium and in 1997 was awarded the degree of Doctor of Laws. Since April 2002 Stessens has worked at the General Secretariat of the Council of the European Union, in the judicial co-operation in criminal matters unit. In this capacity, he deals with a wide range of issues related to EU co-operation in justice and home affairs. He has been involved in the elaboration of numerous EU legislative initiatives, such as the 2006 Framework Decision on the simplification of exchange of information. He has been part of the EU negotiation team for a number of international negotiations, including the EU-US High Level Contact Group on data protection and data sharing. He is currently dealing with the Commission proposal for a Framework Decision on the use of Passenger Name Record (PNR) for law enforcement purposes. Previously, Stessens worked as a researcher and a lecturer at the Law Department of the University of Antwerp and an attorney at the Bar in Antwerp. He is a co-editor of a collection of materials in international criminal law and has authored of over 60 articles in legal periodicals. Apart from domestic and international criminal law, his publications deal with issues of human rights law and European community law.
Cecilia J. M. Verkleij holds a degree in law from Leyden University, the Netherlands. From 1984 to 1988 she worked as a lecturer Constitutional Law and research fellow European Law at the University of Tilburg, the Netherlands. Since 1988 she has been a civil servant with the European Commission where she has worked with a number of services, including the Directorate-Generals for Competition and the Internal Market. She joined the Commission's Directorate General for Justice, Freedom and Security in 2005 where she is currently Head of Sector of the sector access to information within the Unit on police cooperation and access to information. Her area of responsibility is facilitating access to information for law enforcement agencies within the European Union, with a particular focus on security and data protection. This involves issues related to access to information in the fight against terrorism and transnational organised crime, in particular the use by law enforcement authorities of personal data collected by private companies to prevent and combat such crimes (Passenger Name Record (PNR) data, communications data (Data retention Directive) and financial data (SWIFT)). Her sector also has overall responsibility for developing a future policy on facilitating the access to and sharing of relevant information between police and judicial authorities within the European Union with the aim to further strengthen the European Union's security. |
