An inclusive multistakeholder initiative for a digital Europe
As the European Union's cybersecurity policy strategy enters its third year, enhancing cyber resilience within the EU and advancing the EU's cyber diplomacy priorities internationally remains the utmost priority for the EU to respond to an increasingly challenging security environment.
This year, the European Cyber Agora continues to advance multistakeholder engagement with discussions ranging from cyber skills, diversity and inclusion to public-private cooperation, cyber resilience, capacity building, and the EU’s response to cyber mercenaries.
Attendees can expect high-level panel discussions with representatives of EU institutions, national governments, cybersecurity agencies, civil society, academia, and industry, as well as expert workshops led by the Agora community focusing on cyber diplomacy, emerging disruptive technologies, cybersecurity and space policy, and more.
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09:00 – 09:30 | Welcome and registration | |
09:30 – 09:45 | Opening remarksby Nanna–Louise Linde, Vice-President of European Government Affairs, Microsoft | |
09:45 – 10:00 | Keynote with Margaritis Schinas, Vice-President for Promoting our European Way of Life, European Commission Is cyberspace defining the future of European geopolitics?The role and influence of cyberspace in European geopolitics will continue to grow in the future. As we explore and actualize the new opportunities that cyberspace can offer, we also need to take into account challenges that emerge – both in terms of security and influence. Europe can demonstrate leadership and build alliances to address today’s most pressing security challenges. | |
10:00 – 11:00 | Armchair discussion The European year of skills: How can Europe close the gaps on skills and inclusion in cybersecurity?For “the European Year of Skills”, the European Union aims to address the global shortage of cybersecurity professionals with initiatives focusing on skills development and integration. Because the demand for qualified human resources in cybersecurity is growing in all sectors, new ways of expanding the cyber-skilled workforce need to be explored. Considering these challenges, with an additional perspective on diversity and inclusion for the future cyber workforce, panelists will discuss and share best practices from their respective efforts in tackling this global issue with European solutions. Moderator Speakers | |
11:00 – 11:30 | Networking coffee break | |
11:30 – 12:30 | Parallel workshops | |
Workshop 1 Accountability, State Responsibility and Increasing Confrontation in CyberspaceOrganized by EU Cyber DirectWhile international law, norms, and confidence-building measures have been widely agreed upon, their acceptance and implementation remains fragmented. Deterrence as a method of conflict prevention is increasingly disputed, and many countries are adopting pre-emptive measures against malicious actors. To strengthen a rules-based international order, and in turn prevent conflict, questions relating to accountability and liability are likely to become more prominent – not only for states, but also for victims of cyberattacks. This workshop will explore the future of cyber deterrence and the role of the EU in fostering accountability and strengthening international cooperation. Moderator Speakers | Workshop 2 Defending Democracy through Transatlantic Technological InnovationOrganized by GMF, Carnegie Europe and MicrosoftWith both the EU and NATO exploring new technological solutions beneficial to both civilian and military communities, the EU-NATO Joint declaration has also emphasized the need for enhanced collaboration in emerging and disruptive technologies (EDTs). How can we build more synergies across respective EU-NATO research and innovation? This workshop will explore developments in EDT governance in line with democratic principles, responsible innovation, and the deployment of dual-use EDTs. The discussion will focus on NATO’s Defense Innovation Accelerator for the North Atlantic (DIANA) and Innovation Fund, as well as the various EU funding programs across innovation and defense domains. Moderator Speakers | |
12:30 – 13:45 | Lunch | |
13:45 – 14:00 | Keynote with Carl Fredrik Wettermark, Acting Director for Cyber Issues at the National Security Council, Swedish Prime Minister’s Office Cyber and digital in foreign policy - from expert area to core diplomacy | |
14:00 – 15:00 | Armchair discussion Passing the Torch: National and Geopolitical Perspectives on EU Cybersecurity Policy ImplementationWith the NIS2 entering into force, questions arise on how national authorities will implement the broadened scope and other key areas such as vulnerability handling and incident reporting. The panelists will provide insights into their respective national contexts and discuss EU cybersecurity policy implementation. How can a harmonized implementation of the NIS2 framework be achieved? Moderator Speakers | |
15:00 – 15:30 | Coffee break | |
15:30 – 16:30 | Two breakout workshops | |
Workshop 3 The Geopolitics of Ransomware: from Financial Extraction Tool to Hybrid ThreatOrganized by EU Cyber DirectAs ransomware ranks among the top cyber risks for corporate realities and public services alike, they also pose an increasing threat to international security. The financial impact is dramatic – estimated at EUR 11.5 billion last year – alongside their capacity to disrupt services, supply chains and critical infrastructures. Recent attributions shed light on the fact that both state and non-state actors' motivations are shifting from mere financial extraction to more nuanced political motivations, progressively integrating ransomware into a 'hybrid warfare' process. This workshop will examine the current threat-landscape and the geopolitical features of ransomware attacks, while exploring the role of international multi-stakeholder engagement and diplomatic countermeasures in cyber risk management. Moderator Speakers | Workshop 4 Feminist Perspectives on the Militarisation of CyberspaceOrganized by Centre for Feminist Foreign PolicyWith the increasing militarization of cyberspace, civil society often stands on the frontline to defend democratic values and human rights. While cybersecurity policy tends to replicate traditional biases and policy models, it is important to bring the voice of marginalised communities to the fore. The spread of disinformation, surveillance, elections meddling, and cyber operations against critical infrastructure calls for a collective effort to shape a safe and inclusive digital society. This workshop will discuss the role of civil society and feminist views in advancing cyber peace. Moderator Speakers | |
16:30 – 16:45 | Agora Spotlight with Palo Luka, Chief Operating Officer, ESET If you can’t get talent, make it!These days, the current supply of cybersecurity skills and professionals in the labor market cannot keep up with the booming demand. ESET’s Chief Operating Offer, Palo Luka, will present the company’s approach to reducing this asymmetry and how its first-class training programs for universities and high schools contribute to cybersecurity awareness and develop future generations of experts. | |
16:45 - 17:45 | Reception |
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09:00 – 09:30 | Registration & Coffee | |
09:30 – 10:30 | Armchair discussion Advancing Public-Private Partnership in Cyber Threat Intelligence and Cyber Crisis ResponseLeveraging the private sector’s capabilities is instrumental to amplify the EU’s ability to mitigate and respond to cyberattacks and achieve more accountability in cyberspace. Public and private sector organizations can benefit from each other in areas like cyber threat intelligence and situational awareness, operational cyber crisis management, and the attribution of cyber operations and incidents. What are the main challenges and opportunities for public-private intelligence sharing in these domains? What are the incentives for both parties to build a sustainable and reciprocal cooperation framework? Moderator Speakers | |
10:30 – 11:00 | Networking coffee break | |
11:00 – 12:00 | Parallel workshops | |
Workshop 5 Building Transatlantic Cyber Resilience and SecurityOrganized by GMFIn borderless cyberspace, closer transatlantic cooperation has emerged as a top priority. To protect democracy against internal and external threats, transatlantic partners must step up their collaboration. In the context of the Trade and Technology Council and the EU-U.S. Cyber Dialogue, senior officials have announced a series of joint initiatives both at diplomatic and technical levels, but many challenges remain for both sides. This workshop will examine these initiatives and review the external effects of the EU and U.S. cyber policies. Moderator Speakers | Workshop 6 The Emerging Space-Cyber Nexus and its Implications for EU Security and DefenseOrganized by ECCRIThis workshop explores the growing intersection between space and cyber domains and its implications for EU security and defense. While space-based assets, such as satellites and the terrestrial ground stations, are critical for navigation, communication, and other societal functions, their dual-use nature can have serious implications in the context of armed conflicts. Space-based assets also remain vulnerable to cyber-attacks. This workshop examines the vulnerability of the global satellite infrastructure, and how it may impact the policies of the European Union on space and defense. Moderator Speakers | |
12:00 – 13:00 | Lunch | |
13:00 – 14:00 | Parallel Workshops | |
Workshop 7 Assessing the Role of Europe in Cyber Capacity Building in promoting cyber stabilityOrganized by GFCE and MicrosoftThe fluid security and political situation in the EU’s neighbourhood translates into a complex cybersecurity landscape with serious spill over effects. Building cybersecurity capacities of other countries vulnerable to state-backed actors’ interference and subject to frequent cyberattacks and influence operations, is in the EU’s immediate interest. However, cyber capacity-building (CCB) is a complex and multi-faceted endeavour. Enhancing CCB maturity requires a delicate blend of political will and comprehensive strategy, including sufficient resources and a high degree of coordination. How concretely can the EU act to positively increase impact on cyber stability within, but also outside the EU? Moderator Speakers | Workshop 8 Boosting Public-Private Collaboration in the Context of EU Cyber DiplomacyOrganized by EU Cyber Direct & GMFWith the war in Ukraine significantly intensifying the EU’s cyber threat landscape, the upcoming revision of the framework for a joint EU diplomatic response to malicious cyber activities – the EU’s Cyber Diplomacy Toolbox (CDT) – offers an opportunity to define a framework for public-private partnership (PPP) covering various areas of cyber diplomacy. This offers an ideal chance to conduct a comprehensive review and assessment of public-private collaborations from around the globe. This workshop will explore how public and private actors can be incentivized to collaborate more closely in the cyber domain and towards a multi-layered cyber diplomacy. It will explore existing realities of public-private collaboration and draw from the lesson learnt in other multistakeholder coordination platforms. Moderator Speakers | |
14:00 – 14:30 | Coffee Break | |
14:30 – 15:30 | Armchair discussion Spyware and Cyber Mercenaries: A Blind Spot in Europe’s Human Rights Narrative?The growing use of spyware in Europe has triggered calls for regulation. While civil society and industry voices advocate for multistakeholder action and responsible state behavior on the use and development of offensive cyber tools, the global nature and wide ramifications of the cyber mercenary market pose a real challenge to the entire international community. What could be the next impactful steps forward - domestically, at the European Union level and internationally? Moderator Speaker | |
15:30 – 15:45 | Closing remarksby Gustav Lindstrom, Director, EU Institute for Security Studies (EUISS) | |
15:45 – 16:15 | Reception | |
16:15 – 19:15 | Global Forum on Cyber Expertise (GFCE) Annual Regional meeting for EuropeThe field of cyber capacity building is rapidly maturing. The Global Forum On Cyber Expertise (GFCE), as the multi-stakeholder platform for cyber capacity building, must evolve to support and address the needs of the community while reducing fragmentation of efforts. Towards 2023, the GFCE is focused on coordination for the future, to leverage and streamline existing efforts, avoid duplication, strengthen global cooperation, and foster knowledge sharing. In the context of GFCE’s efforts on regionally sensitive approach to capacity building, the Secretariat of the GFCE, in co-operation with Microsoft, organize the GFCE Regional Meeting for Europe 2023, back to back with the European Cyber Agora Conference. The objective of this year’s Regional Meeting is to provide an opportunity for stakeholders to exchange on priorities of the region in cyber capacity building, in Europe and in relation to Africa. Inputs for the meeting will inform the global agenda for capacity building, to be presented later in 2023. |
Head of Unit, Cyber Coordination Task Force, European Commission, DG Connect
BiographyDirector, Assessments and Supervision, National Cyber Security Centre of Finland (NCSC-FI) Finnish Transport and Communications Agency, Traficom
BiographyActing Head of Unit for Science, Technology, Innovation and Digitalisation, European Commission, DG for International Partnerships
BiographyActing Director for Cyber Issues at the National Security Council, Swedish Prime Minister’s Office
BiographyHead of Unit, EU and international political affairs, ANSSI (French cybersecurity agency)
BiographyDeputy President of the Government in charge of good governance policies, Government of the Republic of North Macedonia
BiographyHead of Unit for Cybersecurity and Digital Privacy, European Commission
BiographyHead of Task Force on Security of Information, DG DEFIS, European Commission
BiographySenior Analyst and CFI Project Co-Director, EU Institute for Security Studies
BiographyGovernment Affairs Manager for Cybersecurity Policy and Digital Diplomacy, Microsoft European Government Affairs
BiographyHead of Digital Affairs Unit in Permanent Representation of Poland to the EU and Deputy Chairperson of the Governing Board of the European Cybersecurity Competence Centre
BiographyChair of the Horizontal Working Party for Cyber Issues; Swedish Diplomat, European Council / Government of Sweden
BiographySenior Analyst, EUISS and Project Director, EU Cyber Direct – EU Cyber Diplomacy Initiative, EU Institute for Security Studies
BiographyVice-President for Promoting our European Way of Life, European Commission
BiographyProject director for cybersecurity policy and resilience, Stiftung Neue Verantwortung (SNV)
BiographyTeam Leader for Policy and Reform Coordination at Support Group for Ukraine, European Commission
BiographyAmbassador, Special Envoy for Cyber Diplomacy, Austrian Ministry of Foreign Affairs
BiographyHead of Unit EUROPEAN DEFENCE FUND IMPLEMENTATION 2 – DEFENCE TECHNOLOGIES, DG DEFIS /EUROPEAN COMMISSION
BiographyInternational development and elections specialist; co-founder, #ShePersisted
BiographyMargaritis Schinas took office as Vice-President for Promoting our European Way of Life in the Von der Leyen Commission in December 2019. In this capacity, he oversees the EU’s policies for Security Union, migration, skills, education and integration. As Vice-President in charge of the Security Union, he oversees and coordinates all strands of the European Commission’s work under the Security Union, including tackling terrorism and radicalisation, disrupting organised crime, fighting cybercrime, stepping up cybersecurity, protecting critical infrastructures or addressing hybrid threats. Mr Schinas has also served as a Member of the European Parliament, from 2007 until 2009. Upon the completion of his parliamentary term of office, he returned to the European Commission and held various senior positions. In 2010, President Barroso appointed Mr Schinas as Deputy Head of the Bureau of European Policy Advisers. Later he served as Resident Director and Head of the Athens Office of the European Commission’s Directorate General for Economic and Financial Affairs (DG ECFIN). In 2014, President Juncker appointed Mr. Schinas as the European Commission’s Chief Spokesperson.
Nanna–Louise Linde is Microsoft’s Vice President of European Government Affairs with responsibility for Microsoft’s government affairs and public policy work across Europe since September2022. Nanna–Louise leads a team of government affairs professionals tasked with strengthening Microsoft’s external relations with the EU institutions and governments across Europe and ensuring the company is a constructive partner in supporting policy makers in Europe achieve their goals and adapt smart legislation. A competition lawyer by training, Nanna–Louise brings with her almost two decades of experience at Microsoft. Most recently, she has been leading Microsoft’s Corporate External & Legal Affairs team in 32 countries in Central and Eastern Europe, responsible for legal matters and relations with governments and other authorities. Prior to that, she was leading Government Affairs for Microsoft in Western Europe.
Despina Spanou is the Head of the Cabinet of the Vice-President of the European Commission overseeing the European Union’s policies on security, migration and asylum, health, skills, education, culture and sports. Her work on security consists in coordinating all areas under the heading of the EU Security Union, ranging from counter-terrorism, cybercrime, cybersecurity to hybrid threats. In this capacity, Ms Spanou coordinates the implementation of the EU Security Union Strategy 2020-2025, the first ever EU Strategy encompassing the whole spectrum of security work in the EU. Previously, she was Director for Digital Society, Trust and Cybersecurity at the Directorate-General for Communications Network, Content and Technology (DG CONNECT) of the European Commission. In this capacity, Ms Spanou was responsible for the European Union’s cybersecurity policy and law. Ms Spanou has served as a member of the management board of ENISA, and of the Steering Board of the Computer Emergency Response Team for the EU Institutions, bodies and agencies (CERT-EU). She is a founding member of the Women4Cyber initiative and advocate for the need for more cybersecurity experts in Europe.
Edward Parsons is Europe & UK Director for (ISC)², the world’s largest cyber security professional member’s organisation. Before joining (ISC)² Edward led an international cyber security consultancy, a leader in UK and Nordic markets, renowned for research and technical expertise. As a cyber security professional Edward spent several years helping organisations investigate and respond to cyber threats from nation states and organised crime. He is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP).
Suzanne has 15+ years of experience in IT and OT security, leading global technology teams. She combines strong knowledge about the digital business & threat landscape, and latest technology insights. Suzanne has solid experience in both Information Security, Privacy and OT security. Currently she is leading the Cyber Resilience practice for Benelux and France within Accenture. Her experience includes leading projects in the oil & gas, electricity, water, chemicals, nutrition, high-tech, manufacturing, government, and public sectors. Suzanne leverages her digital technology and cybersecurity experience to create equity initiatives, and to strive towards more equality, based on opportunities regarding inclusiveness and diversity.
M. Jonke started the successful non-profit tech-school „ReDI School of Digital Integration Munich" in 2017 - in response to over 1 million refugees arriving in Germany. In collaboration with a variety of strong partners ReDI has since then thrived to the leading hub of free digital education in Bavaria for newcomers & locals aiming to start a career in the tech world. The growing tech community in Munich consists of over 5,000 members, coming from leading corporations, small and medium sized enterprises and individuals of students and volunteers from over 60 nationalities. ReDI offers digital courses and workshops to beginners and advanced learners between 11 and 60+ years. In 2022 ReDI Munich was rewarded with the renowned Eurocities Award for its remarkable public-private partnership model with the city of Munich. Sophie studied Politics, Philosophy, and Economics and worked previously in the fields of communications and multi-project management in a variety of enterprises i.a. in Shanghai, Dublin, and Berlin. She worked in both startups and venture capital and supports nowadays founders as a Mentor for Startup Accelerators such as “Techstars”. During the first Covid19 Lockdown in March 2022, Sophie founded together with the city of Munich and Unternehmer TUM the successful initiative “Mia Gehn Online” to help local businesses in Munich survive the crisis through a digital business model. Sophie was named as one of the most inspiring women by Süddeutsche Zeitung and is a member of the prestigious “Münchner Kreis”.
Dennis Broeders is Full Professor of Global Security and Technology at the Institute of Security and Global Affairs (ISGA) of Leiden University, the Netherlands. He is the Senior Fellow of The Hague Program on International Cyber Security and Project Coordinator at EU Cyber Direct. His research and teaching broadly focuses on the interaction between security, technology and policy, with a specific interest in international cyber security governance.
Stéphane Duguin is the Chief Executive Officer of the CyberPeace Institute.
He has spent two decades analysing how technology is weaponized against vulnerable communities. In particular, he has investigated multiple instances of the use of disruptive technologies, such as AI, in the context of counter terrorism, cybercrime, cyberoperations, hybrid threats, and the online use of disinformation techniques. He leads the CyberPeace Institute with the aim of holding malicious actors to account for the harms they cause. His mission is to coordinate a collective response to decrease the frequency, impact, and scale of cyberattacks by criminal groups and state actors, and achieve cyber peace.
Stéphane Duguin sits on the Board of the Datasphere Initiative and is a member of the Advisory Board of the Global Forum on Cybercrime Expertise (GFCE). He is a thought leader in digital transformation and convergence of disruptive technologies. With his work published in major media, his expertise is regularly sought in high-level panels where he focuses on the implementation of innovative responses to counter new criminal models and large-scale abuses of cyberspace.
Prior to this position, Stéphane Duguin was a Senior Manager at Europol. He led key operational projects to counter both cybercrime and online terrorism, such as the European Cybercrime Centre (EC3), the Europol Innovation Lab, and the European Internet Referral Unit (EU IRU).
As part of the Digital Diplomacy team at Microsoft, Kaja leads Microsoft’s work on issues related to international peace and stability to advance trust in the computing ecosystem. Previously, she led Microsoft’s international cybersecurity policy work in an effort to develop policies that support development, growth, and innovation, and advance security, privacy, and trust in the information age. Before joining Microsoft, Kaja led the APCO Worldwide’s technology practice in Seattle; directing public affairs and communication work for consultancy’s clients in this space. Previous to that she worked as a director in APCO Worldwide’s Brussels office, focusing on pan-European campaigns, addressing her clients’ regulatory and antitrust challenges. She holds a Bachelor of Science in international relations and history, and a Master of Science in European politics, both from the London School of Economics.
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Dr. Raluca Csernatoni is a research fellow at Carnegie Europe, where she specializes on European security and defense, with a focus on emerging and disruptive technologies. Csernatoni is also a team leader and research expert on new technologies for the EU Cyber Direct - EU Cyber Diplomacy Initiative project. She is currently a guest professor with the Centre for Security, Diplomacy and Strategy, at Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium. Recently, Csernatoni was a visiting faculty with the Department of International Relations of Central European University in Vienna, Austria. Prior to joining Carnegie, she was a postdoctoral researcher and lecturer with the Department of International Relations at Charles University in Prague, Czechia. Csernatoni holds a PhD and master’s degree in International Relations from Central European University.
David van Weel is NATO’s Assistant Secretary General for Emerging Security Challenges. He is the Secretary General’s primary advisor on emerging security challenges and their implications for the security of the Alliance and a member of the Secretary General’s senior management team. Prior to joining NATO, David van Weel was the Foreign Policy and Defense Advisor for the Prime Minister of The Netherlands (2016-2020). This position followed a long career in The Netherlands Ministry of Defence, where he ended as Director for International Affairs and Operations/ Policy Director (2014-2016) after serving as the Chief of Cabinet for the Minister of Defence and the Permanent Secretary (2012-2014) and as the senior policy officer for amongst others operations in Afghanistan and Libya, NATO, nuclear policy and disarmament, special operations and the preparation of the Defence Budget.
Alice Pannier heads the Geopolitics of Technology program, launched at Ifri in October 2020, after having been associate researcher since 2019. Her research focuses on the geopolitical dimension of new technology, European technology policies, and transatlantic relations. She has also worked for a long time on European security and the foreign and defense policies of European countries, especially France and the United Kingdom.
Prior to joining Ifri, she was Assistant Professor in International Relations and European Studies at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) at Johns Hopkins University in Washington (2017-2020). Previously, she was a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of strategic research (IRSEM) at the French ministry of armed forces. She is a graduate of King’s College London and Panthéon-Sorbonne University and holds a doctorate in political science from IEP Paris, co-supervised with King’s College.
Raquel Jorge is Policy Analyst at Elcano Royal Institute think tank and coordinates the technology and digital policy and global affairs agenda. She also works as independent consultant. As a former Fulbright Fellow granted by the United States-Spain Fulbright Commission, she holds a Master’s in Security Policy, specialized in technology policy, from the Elliott School of International Affairs at the George Washington University (Washington, DC).
Raquel Jorge has worked as an independent expert consultant for the European Commission mapping strategic technology policies across the EU, has evaluated projects on technology and social impact at the Inter-American Development Bank, supported the strategic planning of stakeholders’ potential actions on digital diplomacy, has contributed to digital public policy projects at the Harvard University’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, and has co-led the Working Group on EU’s tech foreign policy at the 2022 European Cyber Agora. She also worked on a technical assistance contract in the planning of the National Strategic on Technology and Global Order at Spain’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and at a UK-based consultancy firm working on foresight methodologies for governments and international institutions.
She is part of the Younger Generation Leaders Network at the European Leadership Network, whose main members include former Prime Ministers, Ministers, and representatives from the EU. She has been named as one of Emerging Young Leaders across Europe in the “35 Under 35” List from Santander Bank-CIDOB.
Nynke Tigchelaar is the Head of Unit for EDF Implementation – defence technologies at the European Commission in DG DEFIS. Between 2020- September 2022, she was the Deputy Head of Unit for Defence Industrial and Market Policy in the same DG. She has been working for the European Commission for 20 years in several departments: From 2017-2020 as policy officer in DG DEFIS and DG GROW in the field of defence and aeronautic industries. From 2007-2013, as policy officer in SG working on better regulation and state aid coordination and before that as case handler for antitrust and state aids in DG COMP. Before joining the European Commission, from 1999-2003, Nynke worked at the Dutch Ministry of Finance as policy advisor on European fiscal affairs. From 1995-1999, she worked at the Netherlands Enterprise Agency as project advisor and national focal point for the EU research framework programmes and the LIFE programme. In 1995, she graduated from the University of Groningen with a master’s degree in International Relations and International Organisations; specialising in European Integration.
Carl Fredrik Wettermark is the Cyber Coordinator for the Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs. He is currently also the acting cyber lead at the newly established Swedish National Security Council. He has a background in diplomacy and technology, and started his career as systems developer in the Swedish startup sector before going into government. He worked closely with previous Foreign Minister Carl Bildt during the establishment of the internet freedom initiatives in 2011-2012, and worked on international law, human rights as well as conflict issues in East Africa before taking up his current post.
Victor Cambazard works as a Cyber attaché at the Permanent Representation of France to the European Union since September 2020. He deals with political affairs related to cybersecurity – in particular within the internal market – notably regulations, crisis management and institutional matters. During the first semester of 2022, he chaired the Horizontal Working Party on Cyber Issues and led from the Council side negotiations on the NIS2 directive with the Parliament and the Commission, leading to a successful agreement on the final text under the French Presidency of the Council of the European Union. Prior to that, he’s been involved as a European and international political affairs officer at the French cybersecurity agency (ANSSI) inter alia in the implementation of the NIS directive. Holding a PhD on public international law focused on space law and international telecommunication regulations, he worked previously as a legal advisor for the French authority for regulation of electronic communications (ARCEP) and later on for NATO Allied Command Operations’ Legal Office.
Dr. Evangelos OUZOUNIS is the head of ENISA’s Policy Development and Implementation Unit. His unit advises the Commission and Member States in the implementation of the NIS Directive, as well as, other sectorial policy initiatives (e.g. DORA and Electricity Network CODE) and facilitates the development of sectorial pan European information exchanges (e.g. Energy ISAC). Dr. Ouzounis leads the Telecom and 5G security area and significantly contributed to the development of the 5G Toolbox. His team is responsible for the area of Trust Services/eIDAs and digital wallets. Finally, Dr Ouzounis’ unit is responsible for data protection and privacy and now develops a Cyber Security Policy Observatory to provide evidence-based recommendations to policy makers. Prior to his position at ENISA, Dr. Ouzounis worked several years at the European Commission (DG Connect) and co-founded FhG - FOKUS’ Electronic Commerce Centre of Competence (ECCO) in Berlin, Germany. Dr. Ouzounis holds a Ph.D from the Technical University of Berlin and a Master in Computer Science and Engineering from the Technical University of Patras, Greece.
Timothée Goulain heads the unit for EU and international political affairs at the French cybersecurity agency (ANSSI) since February 2023, after joining the agency in June 2021. The unit, which is part of the Strategy Directorate, is responsible for leading EU public policy work for the agency, for contributing to EU negotiations on cyber issues, and for representing France in EU cyber networks, including the NIS Cooperation Group and EU-CyCLONe. Timothée graduated in political sciences and international relations and started his career in Brussels where he worked at the European Parliament and in a public affairs consultancy, before heading to Australia where he was director for public affairs at the European Australian Business Council.
Roy Coppieters has over 15 years of experience in Business Continuity, Crisis and Resilience Management. Starting his career at IBM, he moved to PwC as a Manager and is since 2019 Director within the Cyber & Privacy Department, driving all Business continuity, crisis & resilience services. Today, Roy is responsible for the Belgian team of experts who advise (Government) clients in how to maintain business operations under virtually any condition, comply with industry and government regulations and gain the ability to recover from (cyber) disasters and efficiently manage the incident and crisis responses. Roy is a recognised international topic expert, frequent guest speaker and lecturer, while also keeping his skills sharp engaging at the most complex assignments.
Jakub Otčenášek is the Czech cyber attaché in the Council Horizontal Working Party on Cyber Issues, which is a formation he also chaired during the Czech Council Presidency. Prior to assuming his current position he spent a number of years working at the National Cyber and Information Security Agency of the Czech Republic (NÚKIB), covering in particular cyber diplomacy in multilateral organisations. He previously worked as a consultant in Ernst &Young. He holds degrees in International Relations and Area Studies, having focused in particular on societal transitions and post-conflict peacebuilding.
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Dr Andrea Salvi is Senior Analyst at the EU Institute for Security Studies, where he leads the analysis of cyber and digital issues, and he is the Project Director of the EU Cyber Diplomacy Initiative - EU Cyber Direct. Before joining the EUISS he worked as a Project Officer responsible for the scientific direction and development of the DRMKC Risk Data Hub at the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission. He also served as a Human Rights Statistics Consultant for the United Nations Missions in South Sudan. Previously, he worked as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Luiss University and as a Research Affiliate at the Center for Research in Leadership, Innovation and Organisation. Dr Salvi holds a PhD in Political Science from Trinity College Dublin and master’s degrees in International Relations, Law and Government of the EU, and Cybersecurity. He specialised in quantitative methods and in computational social sciences, using cutting-edge data technologies to answer security and political questions.
Dr. Nad’a Kovalčíková is a Senior Analyst in charge of the Transnational Security portfolio at the EU Institute for Security Studies (EUISS) and a project Co-director of the multi-million, EU-funded initiative “Countering Foreign Interference. A project to strengthen EU CSDP capacities against foreign information manipulation and interference (FIMI)”. In particular, she focuses on hybrid threats, foreign interference, disinformation, resilience and democracy, election security, and transatlantic cooperation. She is a member of the ESPAS Steering Group; a member of the Advisory Board for the TEPSA project Raising Awareness on Disinformation, Achieving Resilience (RADAR); a mentor within the innovative network of Harvard Women in Defense, Diplomacy, and Development; an expert collaborator for Minsait’s Ideas for Democracy; and a 2019 awardee and currently also a member of the Steering Committee of Women In International Security. Dr. Nad’a Kovalčíková was formerly a Program manager and Fellow at the Alliance for Securing Democracy in the German Marshall Fund of the United States. She also worked at NATO, the European Parliament, the French and Canadian embassies, and several NGO and think tank projects.
Heli Tiirmaa-Klaar is director of the Digital Society Institute at ESMT Berlin. She has published extensively in the Journal of Cyber Policy and The Estonian Foreign Policy Yearbook, produced numerous publications at the NATO Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence and the European External Action Service, and is author of the books 'Botnets: How to Fight the Ever-Growing Threat on a Technical Level' and 'Global and Regional Security Challenges: A Baltic Outlook' with Tiago Marques. Heli was Ambassador at Large for Cyber Diplomacy and Director General of the Cyber Diplomacy Department at the Estonian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and worked in several roles involving cyber policies and diplomacy at NATO HQ International Staff, the Eurpean External Action Service and the Estonian Ministry of Defense. During her years of service, Heli introduced cyber security as a separate topic to the United Nations Security Council in the context of preserving international security and peace, initiated and led negotiations on the 2013 and 2017 EU Cybersecurity Strategies, prepared the first whole-of-government national cyber security strategy in the world and built a new cyber organisation in Estonia after the 2007 large-scale cyber attacks, created the cyber diplomacy entity in the EU External Action Service together with a broader network on international cyber policy coordination within the European Union, developed the first comprehensive NATO Cyber Defence Policy in 2011, set up an academic department and graduate programs on International Security Studies and led the preparation for Estonian NATO accession at senior level. Heli is a PhD candidate at the University of Helsinki, and graduated with a M.A. in Political Science from The Central European University (CEU)'s Budapest College and a B.A. in Sociology from Tartu University in Estonia. During her studies she received a Fulbright Fellowship for the Elliott School of International Affairs at George Washington University and was recipient of an Open Society Fellowship in 1995. She was chosen by Politico to be among the 28 most influential Europeans of 2018 for setting up EU cyber policies and received The Estonian Ministry of Defence Service Cross in Gold for her services in government. Being a prolific writer and speaker, she regularly writes op-eds and gives interviews in leading international newspapers like POLITICO, NPR, Mother Jones and The Washington Post and contributes frequently to national media outlets such as as ERR News, Majandus, Arvamus, Tagesspiegel Background, GovInsider and Ara en Castellano.
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Nina is the Co-Director of the Centre for Feminist Foreign Policy, having joined the Centre briefly after its establishment in Germany. Nina is a peace support professional, with experience in dialogue and mediation support processes, including designing and supporting Track 1 and Track 1,5 dialogue processes, as well as natural resource management. Nina has a deep regional expertise in the Horn of Africa with a strong track record of strategic and collaborative initiatives involving a wide range of national and international political actors, including the African Union, the Intergovernmental Authority on Development, the United Nations and the German Federal Foreign Office. Previously, Nina worked for the Berghof Foundation, Conciliation Resources, the United Nations Development Programme in Sudan, the United Nations Department of Peacekeeping Operations in New York City and the German Corporation for International Cooperation in Ethiopia. Nina graduated from King’s College London with a Master in ‘Conflict, Security and Development’. She did her undergraduate studies in Heidelberg, Germany and Santiago de Chile, Chile. She is fluent in German and English and speaks Italian. Nina frequently speaks and publishes about feminist foreign and security policy, women’s rights, gender and arms control, and gender and peacebuilding.
Dr Regine Grienberger is the Director for Cyber Foreign and Security Policy at the Federal Foreign Office. Her previous professional experience was chiefly in the field of EU foreign policy as well as EU financial and economic policy. Dr Grienberger was Deputy Head of the Minister’s Office (Gabriel, Maas), Deputy Head of Division for European economic and financial policy and desk officer for EU Agricultural Policy, with responsibility for crisis management in pandemics, among other areas. Her tasks also included EU public relations and the EU’s external relations with countries of the Western Balkans. She was Head of the Political Section at the German Embassy in Rome and culture, press and protocol attaché at the German Embassy in Ljubljana. Dr Grienberger studied agriculture in Bonn, Munich, Vienna and Michigan State University. She obtained her doctorate in Bonn.
Kristina Wilfore is a seasoned international development and elections specialist who has worked in over 30 countries for more inclusive and responsive democratic movements. She has been on the ground in hotspots such as Ukraine, Kenya, Turkey, Brazil and Kosovo. She has worked hand-in-hand with hundreds of women on their campaigns for higher office and to help break systemic barriers to political participation, designing large-scale election integrity and counter disinformation programs in fragile environments. Kristina co-founded #ShePersisted, a cross-national initiative to tackle gendered disinformation and online gender-based violence, and serves as the Global Democracy Advisor at Reset.Tech. Kristina advises governments, international agencies and civil society on how to create an enabling environment to address social media harms and national security threats presented by mis/disinformation. She is an Adjunct Professor with The George Washington University’s Elliott School of International Affairs where she teaches a graduate course in counter disinformation research and policy. Kristina is on the Advisory board of Globant’s Be Kind Tech Fund, a startup to invest in the misuse of technology in society and a member of the U.S. Institute of Peace Civil Society Working Group.
Allison Pytlak is the Program Lead of the Cyber Program at the Stimson Center, currently focusing on a project about accountability. Her work in this area has examined inter-state cyber operations and international governance structures with a focus on United Nations (UN) processes and frameworks. In this context Pytlak has leveraged her significant experience in multilateral arms control and disarmament policy to identify opportunities to effectively advance law and norms for the prevention of cyber harm. In her prior role with the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF), Pytlak monitored and reported on the UN’s working group on state behavior on cyber space and played an important role as a liaison and advocate for civil society participation. She has researched, published, and provided numerous trainings about the gendered and human rights-based dimensions of cyber security and diplomacy.
Mikaela Rönnerman is a Swedish Diplomat and currently the Chair of the Horizontal Working Party for Cyber Issues in the European Council, specifically focused on diplomacy and foreign policy issues.
ESET’s Chief Operating Officer comes from an electro-technical engineering and information systems background and brings more than two decades of expertise to his position. Joining ESET as a student, Palo’s initial focus was on developing the second-generation 16-bit antivirus system for MS DOS called NOD.
In 2008, he joined top management as Chief Information Officer. In this role, he oversaw the development of a diversity of technical infrastructure and internal systems, including the platform used to update ESET’s anti-virus database for the more than 100 million users of ESET products worldwide. In 2011, he took the position of Chief Technology Officer overseeing the ESET’s R&D activities, as well as both the development and quality of ESET products and services. Since January 2017, Palo has been overseeing the company’s operations and strategic investments as Chief Operating Officer (COO).
Throughout his tenure at ESET, Palo has supervised the successful completion of one of the company’s biggest endeavors – the development of ESET Security Solutions, an integrated array of technology products and services that allow organizations to focus on their core competencies. He is also one of the initiators behind the ESET Research Lab, a collaboration between ESET and the Slovak Technical University in Bratislava. He is now supervising the development of ESET Campus, a hub of technological innovation ESET is planning to build in Bratislava.
Christian works in the Cybersecurity and Digital Privacy Unit of DG Connect in the European Commission and is currently leading the Cyber Coordination Task Force. He recently worked on the Data Act proposal, the EU cybersecurity strategy and the roll out of interoperable contact tracing apps across the EU. Previously as head of the Private Office of the European Data Protection Supervisor he advised on privacy-related legal and policy developments in the EU, including online manipulation, digital monopolies, digital ethics and scientific research. He moved to Brussels in 2008, after several years of advising the Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales on senior judicial appointments, discipline and complaints handling, succession planning and constitutional reform matters. He also served for several years as private secretary to the Chairman of the UK Labour Party.
Andrew Lee is the VP of Government Affairs, and Global CTI Strategist at ESET. Andrew combines a unique blend of corporate management and security expertise. He formerly served as CEO of ESET North America, the CTO of K7 Computing, and prior to that as ESET’s Chief Research Officer. Andrew has written extensively on cybersecurity topics and presented as a speaker at some of the world’s most prestigious cybersecurity conferences, as well as serving as a board member and advisor on various committees and cybersecurity organizations. He holds a Master’s degree in Computer Security from the University of Liverpool.
Clint Watts is the leader of Microsoft’s Digital Threat Analysis Center (DTAC). Clint leads the team’s efforts to detect and disrupt foreign malign influence efforts affecting democracies around the world. Prior to joining DTAC, Clint was the founder of Miburo, a digital analysis and consulting company acquired by Microsoft in July 2022. Clint is a former U.S. Army infantry officer, FBI Special Agent, Executive Officer of the Combating Terrorism Center at West Point (CTC), consultant to the FBI’s Counter Terrorism Division (CTD) and National Security Branch (NSB), and analyst supporting the U.S. Intelligence Community and U.S. Special Operations Command. Clint also acts as a national security contributor for NBC News and MSNBC and author of the book, Messing With The Enemy: Surviving in a Social Media World of Hackers, Terrorists, Russians and Fake News. Clint’s writing has appeared in a range of publications to include the New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, The Daily Beast, Politico, Lawfare, War On The Rocks and the Huffington Post.
Katarzyna Prusak-Górniak is a legal advisor, a graduate of the Jagiellonian University and the National School of Public Administration. Katarzyna is Head of the Digital Affairs Unit, cyber attaché at the Permanent Representation of the Republic of Poland to the EU in Brussels. Prior, she was the Director of the Legal Department in the Ministry of Digital Affairs. In addition to her role at the Polish permanent Representation to the EU, she is currently the Deputy Chairperson of the Governing Board of the European Cybersecurity Competence Centre (ECCC).
Romain Bosc is a Senior Program Coordinator in GMF’s Brussels office. His main interests span EU foreign policy, transatlantic relations, and global governance in cybersecurity and emerging technologies.
Before joining GMF, he held positions in the Brussels-based consultancies FleishmanHillard and Teneo, advising clients on public affairs, communication, and governmental relations in various areas related to the broad EU digital and technology policy agendas. Romain also previously worked at the Centre for European Policy Studies and was a trainee at the European Commission’s DG CONNECT. He studied political sciences and international relations at Saint-Louis University and Université libre de Bruxelles. He speaks English and French.
Staffan Truvé is co-founder and CTO of Recorded Future. Previously he was CEO of the Swedish Institute of Computer Science and Interactive Institute. Staffan has co-founded more than a dozen high tech start-ups. He holds a PhD in computer science from Chalmers University of Technology and an MBA from Göteborg University. He has been a Fulbright Scholar at MIT. His research interests include artificial intelligence and information visualization. Staffan is a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences.
Chase Carter is a political officer at the US Mission to the EU in Brussels, where he focuses on political-military affairs. He has wide-ranging portfolio that includes cyber security, non-proliferation, defense export controls, and space. A security policy generalist, he has spent a decade in the US federal government working on defense issues spanning Washington’s global interest. He holds a master's degree in international relations from Texas A&M University, where he conducted research on power transition theory. He also studied at the Free University of Berlin. Chase is originally from Houston, Texas, USA.
Julia Schuetze is project director for cybersecurity policy and resilience and has been with SNV since 2017. In 2023, she manages two projects dealing with the development of resilience skills in municipal administrations. She also chairs the interdisciplinary working group of the Transatlantic Cyber Forum on the topic of international deployment of cyber security specialists. In addition, Julia Schuetze has been designing and implementing cybersecurity policy exercises in country-specific contexts in Mexico, Armenia, South Africa and Costa Rica, among others, since 2020.
In past projects, she has worked on the topics of EU cyber diplomacy with the USA and Japan, cyber operations against election processes and the shortage of IT security specialists in Germany. As part of her work for the SNV, she has been invited to the German Bundestag several times as an expert, spoke at the cybersecurity caucus of the U.S. Congress and conducted expert workshops in Berlin, Washington D.C, and Tokyo, among others. She has published articles for EU Cyber Direct, Council of Foreign Relations Netpolitics Blog and Tagesspiegel Background, among others. Her work has been e.g. in the WirtschaftsWoche, the Tagesspiegel, the F.A.Z. and quoted by the BBC.
She is a member of the Advisory Board for Digital Consumer Protection of the Federal Office for Information Security on behalf of the SNV. She is also a non-profit member of the Advisory Board of the FIC - International Cybersecurity Forum (FIC).
Previously, she worked at Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. on EU copyright reform and open source policy and conducted research on social-tagging tools at Harvard University's Berkman Klein Center. Julia studied politics, public policy and journalism, with an early focus on tech policy at the University of Bath, UW Seattle, UNCW and University of Stirling. In this context, she wrote her bachelor's thesis on cyber security awareness programs in Germany and the U.S. in collaboration with the German Federal Office for Information Security (BSI). She wrote her master's thesis on the U.S. government's handling of cyberattacks and its political infrastructure in 2016.
Christiane Kirketerp de Viron joined the European Commission in 2006 and is now Member of Cabinet for the Commissioner for Budget and Administration, Johannes Hahn. Her responsibilities include the digital transformation of the Commission and cybersecurity. Prior to this, she was Member of Cabinet for the Commissioner for Research and Innovation. Christiane is a political scientist and trained as a journalist.
Jakob is an Associate at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP), where he serves as threat intelligence liaison in the build-up of the European Repository of Cyber Incidents (EuRepoC). Jakob is also a Senior Researcher for Cyber Conflict and Statecraft at the European Cyber Conflict Research Initiative (ECCRI). His research focuses on evolutions in state responses to malicious cyber activity. Until 2022, he headed the Cyberdefense Project at the Center for Security Studies at ETH Zurich, advising the Office of Cyberdefense Policy in the Swiss Department of Defense. Previously, Jakob worked as researcher at Oxford University and the EU Institute for Security Studies, assessing the inclusive development of cybersecurity strategies for the British Foreign Office and the World Bank and supporting the EU’s track-two dialogues with strategic partners.
Matija Rencelj is a Research Manager at the European Space Policy Institute (ESPI). His work focuses on inter-institutional relations, regulatory developments, and integration of space-derived data across terrestrial industry verticals. He previously worked with the European Space Agency, the European Commission, in the aviation and commodities sectors, and started his career as a lawyer at a corporate law firm. He holds an LL.M. in Air & Space Law from McGill University and a Law Degree from the University of Ljubljana.
Christophe Morand joined the French Air Force in 1987. He started his career in the technical squadron of the strategic ballistic missiles wing. After several posts in military space units, he was appointed head of the military space programs division in the French joint staff, in charge of in charge of all French space intelligence programs. He retired in 2010 as Colonel and joined the Crisis Management and Planning Director in European External Action service. He established in 2015 the EEAS space task force.
In 2020, he was appointed head of the task force of the security of information of the Directorate-General for Defence Industry and Space (DEFIS). As security advisor of the Directorate General Timo Pesonen, he supervises security activities of the EU space programme.
DEFIS leads the European Commission's activities in the Defence Industry and Space sector. In the area of Defence Industry, DEFIS is in charge of upholding the competitiveness and innovation of the European Defence industry by ensuring the evolution of an able European defence technological and industrial base. In the area of Space DG DEFIS is in charge of implementing the EU Space programme consisting of the European Earth Observation Programme (Copernicus), the European Global Navigation Satellite System (Galileo) and the European Geostationary Navigation Overlay Service (EGNOS).
Lea Pavlovic is a Policy Manager for regulatory compliance and market access in Access Partnership’s Space & Spectrum Policy Practice, based in Brussels and London. Previously, she was a consultant at APCO Worldwide in Brussels, where she established and led APCO’s space work, specializing in EU space policy, as well as being a team member of APCO’s Technology Practice where she works for clients focused on cloud, data and cybersecurity policy. Lea also leads a working group in AmCham EU on space. Prior, Ms. Pavlovic worked for PriceWaterhouseCoopers (PwC) as a junior consultant for the space sector on projects for the European Space Agency, the European Commission and private aerospace and defense companies. She participated in various projects such as research strategies, business evaluations, and market analyses, including notably a socio-economic impact assessment of the European launchers and published an internal strategy paper on the European defense industry and militarization of space. She holds a BA (Hons) in Politics and International Relations from University of Kent, Canterbury and an MA in European Affairs from Sciences Po Paris. She speaks English and German fluently, with an intermediate proficiency of French, and has an array of international living experience.
Carys Dunn is an attaché in the Council Working Party on Space, representing Belgium. She is currently seconded from Belspo (the Belgian Science Policy Office) to the Permanent Representation of Belgium to the EU for the preparation of the upcoming Belgian Presidency of the Council of the EU in 2024.
Previously, she was a senior consultant at Lysios Public Affairs, a Paris-based consultancy with an office in Brussels, where she specialized in space and digital policies. Before diving into the EU space bubble, she acquired experience in the L’Oréal European Public Affairs Office, where she worked on tech and environmental files, and at the European Parliament, where she specialized in EU foreign affairs, security, and defense.
She holds a BA in International Studies from Leiden University and an MA in European Interdisciplinary Studies from the College of Europe (Natolin). A native English and French speaker, she is also fluent in German and Serbo-Croatian and is striving to improve her Dutch.
Tereza has had an international career in academia and the non-profit sector in the Czech Republic, the UAE, the USA, and Switzerland. Before joining the GFCE in 2022, she was director of partnerships at DiploFoundation. She holds MA in International Studies and PhD in European Studies. Tereza has worked on several capacity building projects in the field of digital policy and cybersecurity and is an advocate of bringing practical considerations of capacity building into the discussion. Tereza served as the chair of the GFCE Working Group on Cybersecurity Culture and Skills and serves as a member of the Internet Governance Forum’s Multistakeholder Advisory Group. At the GFCE, she is responsible for coordination of its regional efforts and contributes to outreach activities.
An Agricultural Engineer and post-graduate in International Cooperation, Miguel Exposito has over 30 years of professional experience in the field of development cooperation. He has worked in Argentina, Ecuador, Germany, Belgium, Tunisia, India, Dominican Republic, Cuba and Haiti. Since 2006, Miguel works as civil servant at the European Commission where he has occupied several posts. He is currently the acting Head of Unit for Science, Technology, Innovation and Digitalisation at the European Commission’s DG for International Partnerships.
Silja-Madli Ossip works as a Community Lead in EU CyberNet since 2019, responsible for outreach, partnerships, and community-building to expand the European Union-wide Expert Pool and Stakeholder Community for the benefit of cyber capacity building in third countries. Prior to working for EU CyberNet, she held a variety of posts supporting the digital and cyber policies at the Estonian National Cyber Security Centre and at the Permanent Representation in Brussels as part of the Estonian EU Presidency team. She has been the Estonian governmental expert to the Horizontal Working Party on Cyber Issues, including during the negotiations of the Cybersecurity Competence Centres regulation.
Slavica Grkovska was born on July 27th, 1970, in Skopje. She graduated from the Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics in Skopje and later she obtained the title Master of Science in Mathematics. In the period 1995-2002 she worked as junior assistant in mathematics at the Institute of Mathematics within the Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics. Afterwards, 2002-2011 she was Member of the Parliament of the Republic of Macedonia. During her term as an MP, she was president of the Commission on Education, Science and Sports, member of the Foreign Affairs Committee and deputy member of the Committee on European Affairs. Furthermore, she was deputy president of the Joint Parliamentary Committee in the EU-Republic of Macedonia. In the period 2013-2014 she worked as chief administrative director additionally responsible for human resources and legal affairs in the company for information technologies “EIN-SOF LLC”. As of March 2015, Grkovska worked as human resources management in the IT company “VOX Teneo Macedonia DOO”. In the period 2008-2021 she was appointed head of the human resources department for Belgium, Indonesia, and North Macedonia within the same company. In the period between May 2021 until her appointment as Deputy Prime Minister in charge of good governance policies in the Government of the Republic of North Macedonia, she was the chief systemic analyst in the Sector for Information Technology, department of informatics and telecommunications in the Ministry of the Interior.
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Kerstin Zettl-Schabath is a research associate at the Institute for Political Science at Heidelberg University, where she works on the political dimension of cyber conflicts within the research consortium “European Repository of Cyber Incidents” (EuRepoC). Until the official launch of EuRepoC, Kerstin was engaged in a project funded by the German Foundation for Peace Research, which developed the Heidelberg Cyber Conflict Dataset HD-CY.CON which serves as the basis of today`s EuRepoC database. At this time, she also completed her doctoral thesis on the topic of autocratic and democratic proxies in cyberspace, by comparing state-proxy interactions and strategies for China, Russia, the US and Israel from 2000 until 2021.
Raffaele Marchetti (Laurea, Rome-La Sapienza; PhD, London-LSE) is Deputy Rector for Internationalization and Professor in International Relations at the Department of Political Science and the School of Government of LUISS. His research interest concerns global politics and governance, hybrid and city diplomacy, transnational civil society, (cyber-)security and political risk, and democracy. He acts as external expert for the European Commission and other public/private institutions on issues of global governance, public policies, civil society, and security. He is ISA’s United Nations-NGO Representative (2022-2024). He is the editor of the Routledge series Innovations in International Affairs and the Luiss University Press series Radar.
Head of Outer Space, Digital and Economic Affairs at the Paris Peace Forum, Jérôme Barbier is a policy expert in tech governance and diplomacy. A graduate from Sciences Po in political sciences and public policy, he has previously worked in the field of European and multilateral affairs for the French ministry for Europe and foreign Affairs. His missions on digital issues at the Paris Peace Forum include managing the secretariat of the Paris Call for Trust and Security in Cyberspace, the largest multistakeholder coalition on promoting efficient norms and principles to secure a free, stable and open ICT environment.
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Manon Le Blanc is Head of International Cyber Policy at the European External Action Service (EEAS) and recognized as one of Europe’s top cyber women by the Women4Cyber foundation. Prior to her posting at the EEAS, Manon served to the 2016 Netherlands' Presidency of the Council of the European Union, and was a senior advisor to the Secretary General at the Ministry of Justice and Security in The Hague. Manon holds an MsC in Business Administration from the University of Amsterdam.
Nikolas Ott is a Government Affairs Manager for Cybersecurity Policy and Digital Diplomacy at Microsoft European Government Affairs. His portfolio includes cyber diplomacy, cyber threat intelligence, cyber defense policy, foreign and security policy and cyber capacity building. Previously, he worked in the cyber/ICT security team of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE). He is an alumnus of the Mercator Fellowship of International Affairs and the German Academic Scholarship Foundation. He holds a M.A. in Law and Diplomacy from The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy (Tufts University) and B.A. in Political Science from the Freie Universität Berlin.
At the CyberPeace Institute, Charlotte is responsible for Public Policy and is the Senior Humanitarian Advisor.
Charlotte is an experienced senior executive in digitalization of organizations, tech policy and diplomacy, multilateral engagement, data and digital risk, as well as in security and crisis management, and communication.
Charlotte has spent 30 years in the humanitarian sector, including as Director of Communication and Information Management and Director of Digital Transformation and Data at the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) as well as a number of other positions in the Headquarters and in contexts of armed conflicts.
Charlotte holds an MSc in Communication Management and a BA in Business Studies, and has studied both Digital Disruption and Digital Transformation at IMD Management School in Lausanne. She is an Executive Fellow, Digital Strategies Roundtable, SDA Bocconi.
Charlotte was voted one of the 100 Digital Shapers in Switzerland in 2019.
Jeroen Lenaers (29 April 1984) is a Dutch politician from Stramproy, Limburg. In 2014, he was first elected as a member of the European Parliament for the CDA and joined the European People's Party (EPP). He was re-elected in 2019. He is the Chair of the Committee of Inquiry to investigate the use of Pegasus and equivalent surveillance spyware (PEGA) and EPP coordinator in the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE). He is also a substitute member of the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs (EMPL) and the Committee on Budgets (BUDG). Furthermore, he is a substitute-member of the Committee on Budgetary Control (CONT), where he is rapporteur on the discharge of the General budget of the EU - Commission of 2021.
Anne Marie Engtoft Larsen and her team have a global mandate and a physical presence in Silicon Valley, Copenhagen and Beijing, transcending borders and regions in rethinking the traditional understanding of a diplomatic representation. Prior to her appointment, Anne Marie worked at World Economic Forum in Geneva (2017-2020) where she led the World Economic Forum's work on the Fourth Industrial Revolution and Global Public Goods. Her focus was on mobilizing technology companies, governments and civil society to collaboratively tackle the barriers that prevent emerging technology from scaling responsibly to help solve society’s biggest challenges. Before joining the World Economic Forum, Anne Marie co-founded an innovation house for student entrepreneurship; co-founded Democratic Capital; worked as political advisor in the Danish Parliament; and served on the Board of Directors of Copenhagen Business School and The Danish Consumer Council. Anne Marie Engtoft Larsen holds a M.Sc. in International Development from The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), a B.Sc. and M.Sc. in International Business & Politics from Copenhagen Business School and is a 2017 Global Leadership Fellow with the World Economic Forum.
David Kaye is a clinical professor of law at the University of California, Irvine, and the former United Nations Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression (2014-2020). His 2019 book, Speech Police: The Global Struggle to Govern the Internet (Columbia Global Reports), explores the ways in which companies, governments and activists struggle to define the rules for online expression. Appointed by the UN Human Rights Council in June 2014, David served through July 2020 as the global body’s principal monitor for freedom of expression issues worldwide. He reported to the UN on COVID-19 and freedom of expression and, in 2019, to the UN General Assembly on online hate speech. His earlier reporting addressed, among other topics, the ways in which Artificial Intelligence technologies implicate human rights issues, the global private surveillance industry and its impact on freedom of expression, growing repression of freedom of expression globally, encryption and anonymity as promoters of freedom of expression, the protection of whistleblowers and journalistic sources, the roles and responsibilities of private Internet companies, and the regulation of online content by social media and search companies. He conducted official missions to Japan, Tajikistan, Turkey, Mexico, Liberia, Ecuador and Ethiopia, and regularly addressed major policy and academic conferences dealing with free expression, technology and media freedom worldwide. Together with the regional monitors of freedom of expression in Europe (OSCE), the African Commission on Human and People’s Rights, and the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, he joined six Joint Declarations on major contemporary challenges for free expression and independent media worldwide. After doing his undergraduate and graduate work at the University of California, Berkeley, he joined the U.S. State Department as a lawyer in 1995. In 2002, while the principal lawyer for international humanitarian law at the State Department, he was an advocate inside government for application of the Geneva Conventions to detainees captured by U.S. forces in Afghanistan, which the United States had invaded in the wake of the attacks of September 11, 2001, or otherwise brought to the U.S. Naval detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. In addition to his work on human rights and freedom of expression, his academic research and writing have focused on accountability for serious human rights abuses, international humanitarian law, and the international law governing use of force. A member of the Council on Foreign Relations and former member of the Executive Council of the American Society of International Law, he has also published essays in such publications as Foreign Affairs, The New York Times, The Guardian, Reuters, Slate, Foreign Policy, JustSecurity and The Los Angeles Times.
Implementing partners
The European Cyber Agora is facilitated by Microsoft, the German Marshall Fund of the United States and EU Cyber Direct.
Spotlight Partners 2023
This year, we are excited to spotlight our active partners and co-organizers including the Centre for Feminist Foreign Policy, ESET, the European Cyber Conflict Research Initiative, European External Action Service, the Global Forum for Cyber Expertise, PricewaterhouseCoopers and The Hague Program on International Cyber Security.
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The European Cyber Agora is a multi-stakeholder platform bridging the gap between government, civil society and industry across Europe to shape the European cybersecurity policy agenda and identify European perspectives on global cybersecurity policy debates. It promotes collaboration across sectors including diverse voices and contributes to evidence-based cybersecurity policymaking through research-based and outcome-oriented engagement.
EU Cyber Direct
Microsoft
The German Marshall Fund of the United States
Carnegie Europe
Center for Feminist Foreign Policy
ESET
European Cyber Conflict Research Initiative
European Union External Action
Global Forum on Cyber Expertise
PricewaterhouseCoopers
The Hague Program on International Cyber Security
BSA | The Software Alliance
Chatham House, the Royal Institute of International Affairs
CIDOB - Barcelona Centre for International Affairs
CyberPeace Institute
Cyber Policy Institute
CYDIPLO - European Cyber Diplomacy
Digital National Alliance (DNA) - Bulgaria
ETH Zürich
European Union Institute for Security Studies
Euro-Atlantic Council of Slovenia
Geode
German Federal Foreign Office
The German Marshall Fund of the United States
Hellenic Foundation for European & Foreign Policy (ELIAMEP)
KPMG
Ministry of Foreign Affairs Romania
Republic of Slovenia Ministry of Public Administration / URSIV
Republic of Estonia Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Real Instituto Elcano | Royal Institute Elcano
University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Social Sciences
"Europe is one of the strongest voices globally for a free, open, secure and stable cyberspace. This value-based and human-centric vision of cyberspace cannot be protected by governments alone but must involve the whole multistakeholder community. Europe, itself built on partnerships, is best-placed to show how collaboration between different sectors can help advance responsible behavior in cyberspace."
“The nongovernmental sector is a valuable resource for policy makers; now is the time to harness this resource in Europe and work together to promote our values globally.”
“Slovenia welcomes the Cyber Agora initiative and is excited to be working with the non-governmental sector to identify, implement, and advance cybersecurity best practices. Resilience – online and offline – needs to be a priority for Europe and we can only achieve it in partnership with the multistakeholder community.”
“It is time for inclusive, sustainable, and structured multistakeholder engagement alongside the implementation process of the EU Cybersecurity Strategy.”
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