LAM Chuan Leong
Ambassador-At-Large, Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Chairman, Competition Commission of Singapore
Former Chairman, Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore
Mr Chuan-Leong Lam is an Ambassador at Large with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He is also the Chairman of the Competition Commission of Singapore and Chairman of the Governing Board of the Centre of Quantum Technologies.
Mr Lam has held the appointment of Permanent Secretary at the Ministry of the Environment, the Ministry of National Development, the Ministry for Trade and Industry, and the Ministry of Communications and Information. From 1981 to 1984, Mr Lam was the Principal Private Secretary to the Prime Minister of Singapore. Previous to that he has served in the Ministries of Finance and Defence.
Mr Lam has served as Chairman of the Infocomm Development Authority (IDA) and the National Science and Technology Board, [now re-named as A*Star]. He was a Board member of the Monetary Authority of Singapore, the de-facto central bank in Singapore. He has served on the Boards of several Singapore companies.
Mr Lam's key areas of interest and expertise are in the application of general management theories, particularly in the context of complex systems. His career background has been in macro-economic management, trade and investment and science and technology policies. He has worked on micro-economic issues, economic and market regulation, competition policy, pricing and market efficiency, privatization of government services, and transport economics.
Mr Lam graduated from the University of Singapore, with First Class Honours in Physics in 1970. He graduated with an MBA from Harvard Business School in 1978. In 1991, Mr Lam was an Eisenhower Fellow, under the USA Eisenhower Fellowship Programme. He was a Singapore President Scholar.
Brad SMITH
Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary
Legal & Corporate Affairs, Microsoft
Mr Brad Smith is Microsoft’s Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary. He leads the company’s Department of Legal and Corporate Affairs, which is responsible for all legal work and for government, industry, and community affairs activities.
Mr Smith has played a leading role at Microsoft on intellectual property, competition law, and other Internet legal and public policy issues. He is the company’s chief compliance officer and is responsible for Microsoft’s work to implement the antitrust consent decree established in 2001 with the Department of Justice and state Attorneys General. He led negotiations that resulted in nine state Attorneys General dropping their antitrust appeal against Microsoft in 2002. He was also responsible for the negotiation of agreements in 2002 with the Federal Trade Commission and European Commission covering privacy and security requirements for the company’s Passport online-authentication service. He oversaw the company’s 2003-2005 negotiations that resolved Microsoft’s differences with AOL Time Warner, Sun Microsystems, Intertrust, Novell and CCIA, and IBM.
Mr Smith has helped spearhead Microsoft’s global campaigns to bring enforcement actions against those engaged in illegal spamming, virus creation, and software counterfeiting. He has led efforts to revise the company’s contracts to make them more customer-friendly, and he has strengthened Microsoft’s legal compliance programs, issuing new Standards of Business Conduct for all Microsoft employees and creating a new Office of Legal Compliance.
Mr Smith previously worked for five years as Deputy General Counsel for Worldwide Sales, and before that, he spent three years managing the company’s European Law and Corporate Affairs group, based in Paris. Before joining Microsoft, Mr Smith was a partner at Covington & Burling, having worked in the firms Washington, D.C. and London offices and represented a number of companies in the computing industry.
Mr Smith graduated summa cum laude from Princeton University, where he received the Class of 1901 Medal, the Dewitt Clinton Poole Memorial Prize, and the Harold Willis Dodds Achievement Award, the highest award given to a graduating senior at commencement. He was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar at the Columbia University School of Law, where he received the David M. Berger Memorial Award. He also studied international law and economics at the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva, Switzerland. He has written numerous articles regarding international intellectual property and electronic commerce issues, and has served as a lecturer at the Hague Academy of International Law.
Scott KIEFF
Professor, Washington University School of Law
Research Fellow, Stanford University’s Hoover Institution
Prof Scott Kieff is a law professor at Washington University in St. Louis and a research fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. He joined the faculty of Washington University in 2001, after transitioning from his practice as a trial lawyer and intellectual property lawyer by serving as a visiting assistant professor at the University of Chicago Law School and the Northwestern University School of Law. He served as a Visiting Professor at Stanford Law School in the spring of 2007. Before joining Hoover in 2003 as a national fellow through 2005, he was for two years a faculty fellow in the John M. Olin Center for Law, Economics, and Business at Harvard Law School. He is also a member of the founding faculties of the Munich Intellectual Property Law Center and the Intellectual Property Management Group of the Canadian Centre for Intellectual Property Policy at the McGill University Faculty of Law, as well as group leader for the Law, Economics, Political Science, and Public Policy Group of the Washington University Center for Security Technology. He was appointed in 2005 by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit to be a member of the court’s pilot appellate mediation panel.
Prof Kieff graduated with a degree in molecular biology and applied microeconomics from MIT in 1991; and as an undergraduate was awarded a two-year fellowship sponsored by the National Science Foundation for research in molecular genetics at the Whitehead Institute. He was admitted to the New York Bar after graduation from the University of Pennsylvania Law School and served as Law Clerk to the Honorable Giles S. Rich on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. He has since been admitted to the U.S. Supreme Court, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, the Trial Bar of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, as well as other state and federal bars.
Prof Kieff has delivered numerous articles and speeches about obtaining and enforcing intellectual property rights. He edited the book Perspectives on Properties of the Human Genome Project, by Elsevier, and co-authored the popular treatise and casebook Principles of Patent Law, by Foundation Press, now in its third edition. His research interests generally involve the interface among law, economics, ethics, and creative endeavors such as science, engineering, medicine, and art, with a focus on technology law and business, intellectual property, contracts, unfair competition, antitrust, complex litigation, and the allocation of decision-making ability and authority in disputes involving technological facts. He teaches law school courses on contracts, patents, the interface between contracts and intellectual property, and biotechnology.
Having practiced as an associate with the firm of Pennie & Edmonds in New York, and as an associate and counsel with the firm of Jenner & Block in Chicago, Prof Kieff has represented and advised clients concerning all forms of patent, trademark, copyright, trade secret, unfair competition, and antitrust law in the fields of biology, medicine, chemistry, physics, computer hardware and software, financial services, sports, art, and entertainment. He has been called to testify as a legal expert before federal courts and agencies and maintains his connection to the law, government, business, and financial communities through his ongoing practice as a consulting and testifying expert, focusing on the law, practice, policy, strategy and management of innovation, entrepreneurship, intellectual property, competition, and commercial litigation, appeals, and alternative dispute resolution.
Luncheon Speaker |
William MILLER
Chairman/Founder, Nanostellar, Inc.
Herbert Hoover Professor of Public and Private Management Emeritus
Professor of Computer Science Emeritus, Stanford University
President and CEO Emeritus, SRI International
Chairman Emeritus, Borland Software Corporation
Dr William Miller has spent about half of his professional life in business and about half in academia. Dr Miller came to Silicon Valley from a position as Director of the Applied Mathematics Division at the Argonne National Laboratory where he worked after receiving his PhD in Physics from Purdue University in 1956.At the Argonne National Laboratory Dr Miller conducted research in basic atomic physics and in computer science. He and his colleagues began early work in what is now called computational science.
Dr Miller was the last faculty member recruited to Stanford University by the legendary Frederick Terman who was then Vice President and Provost of Stanford. He was recruited to help form the Computer Science Department at Stanfordand to direct the Computation Group at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC). He led the computerization of SLAC and later as Associate Provost for Computing he led the computerization of the Stanford Campus. He carried out research in computer science and computer systems and directed the research of many graduate students
As Vice President for Research and later as Vice President and Provost, Dr Miller championed the establishment of the Office of Technology Licensing which has become the model for such activities at other universities in the US and abroad. He actively facilitated the establishment of a number of interdisciplinary programs such as the Human Biology Program, the International Security and Arms Control Program, and the Values Technology and Society Program and he helped establish the Neurosciences Department. In 1978 he negotiated and brought to Stanford the first scholars from the People’s Republic of China. In 1979 he was named the Herbert Hoover Professor of Public and Private Management.
In 1968 Dr Miller also played a role in the founding of the first Mayfield Fund (venture capital) as a special limited partner and advisor to the general partners.
As President and CEO of SRI International Miller opened SRI to the Pacific Region, he established the spin-out and commercialization program at SRI and established the David Sarnoff Research Center (now the Sarnoff Corporation) as a for-profit subsidiary of SRI. He became the Chairman and CEO of the David Sarnoff Research Center.
In 1997 at the 10th anniversary of the founding of the David Sarnoff Research Center, Dr Miller along with Jack Welsh, Myron DuBain, and James Tietjen received the Sarnoff Founders Medal.
In 1982 Dr Miller was appointed to the National Science Board; additionally he served on the Computer Science and Telecommunications Board of the National Research Council. He has served on the board of directors of several major companies such as Signetics, Firemans Fund America, First Interstate Bank and later the Wells Fargo Bank, Pacific Gas and Electric Company, and Varian Associates.
In 1990 Dr Miller retired from SRI International and returned to Stanford half time where he taught technology related courses, carried out research on the IT industry and on the characteristics of entrepreneurial regions. He also spent about half of his time working with start-ups and non-profits in Silicon Valley. He helped organize Joint Venture Silicon Valley Network and served on the board of directors for three years. He co-founded and served as Vice Chairman of SmartValley, Inc. Additionally he aided the formation of CommerceNet and served on the board of directors. Dr Miller was a founding director and served as Vice Chairman of the Center for Excellence in Non-profits. He currently serves as Chairman of the Board of Sentius Corp. He is Chairman Emeritus of Borland Software Corp. He is a Founder and Chairman of Nanostellar, Inc., a new start-up in nanomaterials.
Dr Miller co-directs an international research project called the Stanford Project on Regions on Innovation and Entrepreneurship (SPRIE) and he co-directs an Executive Education program on Strategic Uses of Information Technology.
Additionally, Dr Miller worked with foreign countries helping them establish their technology policies and practices, notably Singapore, Malaysia, Japan, and Korea. He served on the International Panel of the Singapore Science and Technology Board, and currently serves on the International Advisory Panel for the Multimedia Super Corridor in Malaysia. He has advised the Korean government on the Software Industry.
Dr Miller and his wife Pat work with the Cheetah Conservation Fund Namibia which is dedicated to preserving cheetahs in the wild in Namibia.
Theme 1: IT Competitiveness in Asia |
Ross O’BRIEN
Director, Corporate Network Hong Kong
Economist Intelligence Unit
Mr Ross O’Brien has been an analyst, consultant, writer and presenter of business intelligence in Asia for nearly twenty years (half that time in Hong Kong), with expertise in high technology and professional services sectors.
Mr O’Brien was a partner and Managing Director of a B2B market research consultancy, Intercedent Hong Kong, where he served as Practice Director for the Information & Communications Technology industries. He served as primary consultant and project manager on all client work related to information technology, telecommunications, and digital media service and equipment market, and remains a director in the firm.
Mr O’Brien brings over a decade’s worth of experience with the Economist Group: in addition to his work at Pyramid, he writes frequently for Business Asia and Business China, has authored many EIU studies in the technology space (including the annual E-Readiness report) and as chaired the Economist Conferences’ Asian Roundtable on
Telecommunications, as well as worked with Executive Services on consulting projects. He also contributes opinion and analysis pieces for TelecomAsia, and serves as the Asia-Pacific Editor of VON Magazine and regularly comments on Asian technology for CNN and CNBC Asia.
He is conversant in Mandarin and Indonesian, and has an undergraduate degree from Dartmouth College (USA) and an MBA from the Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley.
Ms NG Wan Peng
Vice President, Capacity Development Division
Multimedia Development Corporation, Malaysia
Ms Ng Wan Peng is Vice President of Multimedia Development Corporation (MDeC), heading its Capacity Development Division. MDeC is a Malaysian Government owned company, responsible for the coordination, promotion and development of Information and Communication Technology (ICT), and selected services in the country.
Her areas of responsibility include the rolling out of the MSC Cybercities and Cybercenters to extend the MSC Malaysia’s benefits and enabling environment nation-wide, including providing world class infrastructure and telecom services. MSC Malaysia Cybercities and Cybercentres serve as the physical location and environment to catalyse and support growth of ICT and ICT-enabled industries, nuclei to bridge digital divide and extend ICT benefits to the community, and a platform to cultivate a performance culture in service delivery.
She is responsible for creating conducive environment for ICT companies through promoting Cyberlaws and IP protection in the country, with the aims to ultimately steer MSC Malaysia community towards greater exploitation & commercialization of intellectual capital.
To enhance the capabilities of ICT companies to deliver quality products and services through adoption of best practices & certifications in their organizations, she introduces and develops Capability Development Initiatives to the ICT companies. These initiatives include Software Process Improvement (SPI), Product Quality Improvement and Project Management Capability Development.
She also heads the Knowledge Worker Development Initiatives (KDI) for MDeC, that plans and implements initiatives to develop the industry relevant Knowledge workers for MSC Malaysia. The KDI focus on developing a broad stream of ICT k-workers by providing them with high level and in-demand ICT skills and application of knowledge in information and communication technology (ICT). It will also ensure that there is sufficient supply of quality k-workers to meet the needs of local and global investors in MSC Malaysia and the ICT industry.
Her heads the Technology, Policy and Research that manages the MSC Multimedia Grant Scheme.
Ms Ng has more than 19 years’ experience in the ICT field. She has extensive experience in managing large-scale projects, in the areas of Strategic IT Planning, Project Management, Systems Integration, and Methodologies Development. Ms Ng has consulted for both private and public sector organizations in IT policy and project implementation in government, defense and education sectors in Malaysia and abroad.
Dr Rom HIRANPRUK
Director, office of Knowledge Management and Development, Thailand
Former Director, Thailand Software Park
Dr Rom Hiranpruk is the Director of the Office of Knowledge Management and Development (OKMD) in Thailand. He taught various graduate and undergraduate classes in computer science in the U.S. during 1980’s and in Thailand during 1990’s. He has served on various advisory panels on IT and computing for government and private sector organizations such as the Civil Service Commission, Parliament, Military Supreme Command, Ministry of Justice, Ministry of Finance, Budget Bureau, Stock Exchange of Thailand, etc. Since 1990 he was on the computer science and IT curriculum committees for many universities. In December 1999 he was named “IT Person of the Year” by the Thai Nation newspaper for his work in software industry promotion as the founding director of Software Park Thailand. His work since then includes overseeing the formation of regional science parks for the National Science and Technology Development Agency, founding member of the local Software Process Improvement Network (SPIN), founding president of the local chapter of International Association of Software Architects (IASA), Advisor to the Association of Thai ICT Industry (ATCI), among other things. In 2008, he began his new role as the first full-time Director of the Office of Knowledge Management and Development (OKMD) under the Office of the Prime Minister.
Dr Hiranpruk has a BA in Statistics from Macquarie University in Sydney Australia, and a Masters and PhD in Computer Science from the University of Kansas, USA.
CHEN Chao-Yih
Director General, Industrial Development Bureau
Ministry of Economic Affairs, Taiwan
Dr Chen Chao-Yih has been the Director General of the Industrial Development Bureau (IDB) of the Taiwan Ministry of Economic Affairs since April 2002. The IDB works closely ith the industry to jointly work towards further growth of both production volume and production value. IDB facilitates government policies that follow an open and competitive market mechanism and their six basic principles for industrial development: strong market potential, close interrelations among industries, high value-added, advanced technology, low pollution, and low reliance on energy. IDB promotes a friendly environment for investment and to upgrade Taiwan’s industrial capability.
Prior to his present role at IDB, Dr Chen was the Director General of the Industrial Development and Investment Center, now the Department of Investment Services, of the Ministry of Economic Affairs from 2001-2002. He was the Secretary General of the Energy Commission from 1997-2001, and prior to that Director General of the Department of Industrial Technology from 1992-1997.
Dr Chen has a PhD in Agricultural Chemistry from the National Taiwan University from 1982. He has been commended on numerous occasions, including the Asian Productivity Organization’s Regional Award in 2005, Y.S. Sun Foundation’s Outstanding Award in 2004, K.T. Lee’s Management Medal in 2003 and the Outstanding Government Officials Award in 2002.
Theme 2: Public Policy and the Importance of Promoting Choice in Asia |
Urs GASSERBerkman Fellow
The Berman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School
Associate Professor and Director Research Center for Information Law, University of St. Gallen
Dr Urs Gasser is a Berkman faculty fellow and an associate professor of law at the University of St. Gallen, where he serves as the director of the Research Center for Information Law.
Before joining the St. Gallen faculty, Dr Gasser spent three years as a research and teaching fellow at the Berkman Center, where he was the lead fellow on the Digital Media Project, a multidisciplinary research project aimed at exploring the transition from offline/analog to online/digital media. At the Berkman Center, Dr Gasser initiated and chaired the Harvard-Yale-Cyberscholar Working Group. In the 2003/04 academic year, Dr Gasser was also a visiting researcher at Harvard Law School.
Dr Gasser’s research focuses on legal frameworks aimed at regulating information and communication processes, and on effects of structural changes in the information environment on the legal system. Current research projects explore the regulation of digital media (with emphasis on intellectual property law), the anatomy of informational standards, and information quality issues.
Dr Gasser has published and edited, respectively, six books and has written over 40 articles in books, law reviews, and professional journals. Recently, he edited a book on Information Quality Regulation, and wrote a Berkman Report (with Michael Girsberger) on the implementation of the EU Copyright Directive’s provision on technological protection measures into member state laws. Dr Gasser also published an international supplement to the Berkman whitepaper Digital Media in a Post-Napster World, and co-authored several other Berkman reports, including the 2004 iTunes case study. He frequently acts as a commentator on comparative law issues for the US and European media.
In the context of the transatlantic collaboration between the Berkman Center and the St. Gallen Research Center, Dr Gasser is working – among other things – on a report on teaching and research exceptions in EU member states’ copyright laws, on a paper on digital institutions, and on a piece on participatory culture and the future of information law. As a resident fellow, Dr Gasser taught – together with John Palfrey – the spring 2004 and spring 2005 edition of Internet and Society: the Politics and Technologies of Control at Harvard Extension School and participated in Prof Charles Nesson’s Digital Democracy course at Harvard Law School. In summer 2004, Dr Gasser taught at the Oxford Internet Institute’s Doctoral Summer Programme and participated in a session on EU Copyright Law at iLaw Eurasia 2004. In earlier years, Dr Gasser worked as a teaching fellow for the 2003 Berkman Online Lecture and Discussion (BOLD) Series on Internet and Development, where he had focused on ICT and Entrepreneurship, and served as a teaching fellow for John Palfrey’s Cyberlaw and the Global Economy Seminar. Currently, Dr Gasser teaches information law and cyberlaw courses at the University of St. Gallen.
Dr Gasser holds an LL.M. degree from Harvard Law School and had been named one of Harvard Law School’s Landon H. Gammon Fellows for the 2002/03 academic year. He obtained his J.D. (lic.iur.) and S.J.D. (Dr.iur.) from University of St. Gallen with summa cum laude and received for his doctoral thesis Causality of and Responsibility for Information as a Legal Problem the “Walther Hug-Preis St. Gallen” of his alma mater. This prize is awarded for the best doctoral thesis in the fields of law and public affairs of the current academic year. Furthermore, Dr Gasser received the “Rudolf Maeder-Preis” for the best doctorate in law and public affairs of the current academic year. In October 2003, Dr Gasser’s dissertation was awarded with the “Walther Hug-Preis Schweiz”, a prize for the best doctoral theses in law nationwide. After graduation, Dr Gasser worked for several years at the Institute for Business Law, European Law and Comparative Law and as a legal expert for an Internet Company and a Consulting Company.
Dr Gasser is a registered Attorney-at-Law in Switzerland, was chairman of the Forum for European Information Law at the 1st European Jurists Day and the 64th Deutscher Juristentag.
Emmanuel LALLANA
Chief Executive, ideacorp
Former Commissioner, Commission on Information and Communications Technology, Philippines
Emmanuel C. Lallana, PhD is the Chief Executive of ideacorp – an independent, non-profit organization focused on the use of Information and Communications Technology (ICT) in governance and education, in business and the economy and in transforming society. His current engagements include the Regional Training Coordinator of the Pan Asia Network Localization (PAN L10n) Project. PAN L10n is a 10-country local language computing initiative that is managed by the National University for Computer and Emerging Science, Pakistan and funded by the International Research Development Corporation (IDRC), Canada. He is concurrently the Consultant for ICT in Education for the Department of Education of the Republic of the Philippines, as well as Consultant to the PAN Governance Scoping Study of IDRC Canada.
In 2007, he was UNDP GIF Project Advisor and authored the eGovernment Interoperability ePrimer and eGovernment Interoperability series which included an Overview, and Guide and Review of Selected Interoperability Frameworks in Selected Countries.
From September 2004 to January 2007, Dr Lallana served as Commissioner in the Commission on Information and Communications Technology (CICT), Office of the Philippine President, Republic of the Philippines. The CICT is the primary ICT policy, planning, coordinating, implementing, regulating, and administrative entity of the executive branch of the Phil government. He was appointed to the CICT by President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo.
Dr Lallana wrote the chapter on 'The Philippines' March Towards the Information Society” in Florangel Rosario-Braid, Ramon Tuazon and Nora Gamolo (eds) A Reader on Information and Communication Technology Planning for Development. He also wrote the chapter on “Philippines” and co-wrote the chapter “Social, Political and Cultural Aspects of ICT” in the Digital Review of the Asia Pacific 2005/2006 edition (published by UNDP and Orbicom) and the “Philippines” Country Report in George Sciadas (ed) From the Digital Divide to Digital Opportunties: Measuring Inforstates for Development (published by Orbicom). Other ICT related publications include: An Overview of ICT Policies and e-Strategies of Select Asian Economies; SMS in Business and Government; State of eGovernment in the Philippines 2003-2004; and mGovernment: Mobile/Wireless Applications in Government. He also wrote the chapter “Digital Divide in East Asia” in Peter Drysdale (ed) The New Economy in East Asia and the Pacific. Dr Lallana was the Series Editor of e-Primers on Information Economy, Society and Polity vol 1-7, which was jointly published by the e-ASEAN Task Force and the UNDP-APDIP.
Dr Lallana's academic career was spent at the University of the Philippines – Diliman (UP Diliman). He joined the Department of Political Science in 1979 as an Instructor and was an Associate Professor in Political Science when he took early retirement in 2000.
Philip ANDERSON
INSEAD Alumni Fund Professor of Entrepreneurship
Director, Rudolf and Valera Maag International Centre for Entrepreneurship
Director, 3i VentureLab
Professor Philip Anderson is the INSEAD Alumni Fund Professor of Entrepreneurship at INSEAD, in Singapore. He is also director of the 3i VentureLab and director of the Rudolf and Valeria Maag International Centre for Entrepreneurship. His undergraduate degree in Agricultural Economics is from the University of California at Davis, and he received his Ph.D. in Management of Organizations from Columbia University.
A former Army officer, Prof Anderson has also worked as an independent computer consultant, and an MIS manager and Assistant to the President of a large nonprofit organization and an entrepreneurial start-up organization. From 1987-1993, he was an assistant professor at Cornell University’s Johnson Graduate School of Management. From 1993-2001, he was an Associate Professor of Business Administration at the Amos Tuck School of Business, Dartmouth College, where he was the director of Tuck’s Glassmeyer/McNamee Center for Digital Strategies. He currently teaches courses in entrepreneurship, leadership, and the strategic management of innovation, and has written over 100 original cases and notes for these classes.
His research interests include the formation of entrepreneurial businesses, managing growth, processes of technological evolution, strategy implementation, and complexity theory. Prof Anderson is an associate editor of Administrative Science Quarterly, and is also the co-editor of a special issue of Organization Science on applications of complexity theory to organizational research. He has been the chair of the Technology and Innovation Management division of the Academy of Management. Prof Anderson is co-author of Managing Strategic Innovation and Change: A Collection of Readings (with Michael Tushman), published by Oxford University Press in 2004 (second edition), and Inside the Kaisha: Demystifying Japanese Business Behavior (with Noboru Yoshimura) published by Harvard Business School Press in 1997. Inside the Kaisha was named 1997 Booz • Allen & Hamilton/Financial Times Global Business Book of the Year for Industry Analysis/Business Context. His articles have appeared or in such journals as the Harvard Business Review, the Sloan Management Review, Research • Technology Management, CIO, Datamation, the Academy of Management Executive, Administrative Science Quarterly, Management Science, Organization Science, and the Academy of Management Journal.
He has consulted and/or conducted customized executive programs for companies such as 3i, Adidas, Aetna, Air Products, ALSTOM, American Express Financial Advisors, Astra International, Astra Zeneca, Bank Danamon, BOC, Bharti Airtel, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Centennial Funds, CIO Magazine, Commerce One, Cyanamid, DaimlerChrysler, Dow, Eaton, Ernst & Young, Glaxo SmithKline, HeidelbergCement, Hewlett-Packard, Ittiam, J.M. Huber, Intel Capital, Interpharma, John Deere, Jones Lang LaSalle, KPMG, the Lee Evans Group, Malden Mills, Markem, McGraw-Hill, Medallion Enterprises, Merrill, Monument Group, Navis Partners, the New York Times, North Atlantic Capital Partners, Pernod Ricard, Petronas, Polaris Ventures, Praxair, Procuritas, PricewaterhouseCoopers, RCN, RHB, Roche, Sonera, Telenor, Unilab and Visa. He is an independent director of Chemoil (SGX:AV5), is on the governing board of Indus World Schools in India, and advises several startup enterprises, as well as the social venture Microseed. He has also been a speaker at numerous conferences for managers such as the Bloomberg Malaysia Forum, the Business Week CEO Dialogue, and TIECon and publishes a regular column in DARE, India’s leading magazine for entrepreneurs.
Geoffrey YU
Deputy Chairman, IP Academy of Singapore
Former Deputy Director General, World Intellectual Property Organization
Geoffrey Yu is Senior Specialist Advisor in the Singapore Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Singapore Ministry of Law. He is also Deputy Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Intellectual Property Academy of Singapore; Adjunct Senior Fellow of the Rajaratnam School of International Studies of the Nanyang Technological University of Singapore; Senior Fellow, the Diplomatic Academy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Visiting Professor, People's University, Beijing, China.
Prior to his current appointments in Singapore, he spent twenty-five years in the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), based in Geneva, dealing primarily with intellectual property policy and development issues. His last position at WIPO was Deputy Director General, in charge of the development cooperation program for developing and transition countries. He began his career at WIPO as Senior Program Officer for Asia and the Pacific, later occupying the posts of Senior Director-Advisor, Office of the Director General, Assistant Director General of Global Communications and Assistant Director General of the Copyright sector.
Before joining WIPO, he served in the Singapore Administrative Service in the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Social Services. Later, he joined the Singapore Foreign Service, where he worked in Singapore, Tokyo, New York and Hong Kong.
In the course of his career in the Singapore Government and WIPO, he participated in many international meetings and negotiations and spoke in numerous national and international conferences as well as in academic institutions in many countries. He has also contributed articles on different intellectual property questions and served on the Editorial Advisory Board of the Cardozo Law School on Intellectual Property.
Geoffrey Yu studied at the University of Singapore and at Brasenose College, Oxford University.
Theme 3: Countering Cybercrime as a Key Success Factor for Sustained IT Growth in Asia |
Julie INMAN GRANT
Regional Director, Corporate Affairs, Internet Safety and Security
Legal and Corporate Affairs, Microsoft
Julie Inman Grant is Microsoft Corporation’s Regional Director of Internet Safety and Security for Asia Pacific. Based in Melbourne, Australia, she drives Microsoft’s policy outreach and citizenship campaigns for privacy, security and online safety issues across Asia and works closely with government, law enforcement, multilateral and non-governmental organizations and the consumer sector in helping to drive key outcomes in these areas.
From August, 2000 until March, 2005, Ms Inman-Grant was based in Sydney, where she developed and managed Microsoft’s government relations, industry outreach, community affairs programmes for Australia and New Zealand. She also drove the Australian subsidiary’s citizenship and corporate social responsibility programs and built Microsoft Australia’s Unlimited Potential community program, which last year received the Prime Minister’s Award for Community-Business Partnerships.
Ms Inman Grant has been with Microsoft for almost 12 years and was hired as one of the Company’s first government affairs professionals. For five years, she served as Federal Government Manager in Microsoft’s Washington, D.C. Government and Industry Affairs Office, and managed a wide range of programs including intellectual property, electronic commerce, tax, finance, international trade, immigration, education and digital divide issues.
Prior to joining Microsoft in 1995, Ms Inman Grant worked in Florence, Italy and Brussels, Belgium as a telecommunications policy consultant. She also spent 2½ years as Policy Analyst and Public Communications Manager of the National Council for Languages and International Studies (NCLIS), a non-profit education association based in Washington, D.C. She began her career in government, serving as Legislative Assistant to U.S. Representative John Miller (WA) throughout the 102nd Congress and focused upon technology, education and social issues.
A native of Seattle, Washington, USA, Ms Inman Grant attended Boston University and graduated magna cum laude with a B.A. in International Relations in 1990. She went on to the American University School of International Service where she received her M.A. summa cum laude in International Communication.
Ilias CHANTZOS
Director, Government Relations, EMEA & APJ,
Symantec
Mr Ilias Chantzos is in charge of Symantec’s Government Relations and Public Affairs programmes for Europe, Middle East, Africa as well as the Asia, Pacific and Japan Regions. He is based in Brussels.
Mr Chantzos represents Symantec before government bodies, national authorities and international organisations advising on public policy issues with particular regard to IT security and availability issues.
Mr Chantzos is a member of the Executive Board of AeA Europe. He was also recently appointed member of the Permanent Stakeholders Group of the European Network and Information Security Agency (ENISA). He was chair of the European Policy Council of Business Software Alliance for two consecutive terms. Mr Chantzos is regularly invited as a speaker to conferences and events on public policy, information security and privacy.
Before joining Symantec in 2004, Mr Chantzos worked as legal and policy officer in the Directorate General Information Society of the European Commission. His tasks were mainly focused around information security policy. He covered the Council of Europe Cybercrime Convention and the Framework Decision on Attacks against Information Systems. Furthermore he worked on a number of EU legislative initiatives relevant to information society and information security, including the directives on Privacy on Electronic Communications and the European Network and Information Security Agency. Chantzos represented the European Commission in various international forums and conferences.
Mr Chantzos holds a law degree from the University of Thessaloniki and a Masters degree in computers and communications law from the University of London. He is fluent in Greek, English and German.
Lionel TAN
Partner, Rajah & Tann
Former Deputy Public Prosecutor, Attorney-General’s Chambers, Singapore
Mr Lionel Tan is a Partner in the Singapore law firm Rajah & Tann, one of the largest law firms in the country. He started out his career in law as a Deputy Public Prosecutor and concurrently held the appointment of Assistant Director of the Computer Information & Systems Department of the Attorney-General’s Chambers. Since joining Rajah & Tann, he has been involved in various high profile commercial and criminal litigation cases and has advised clients on a wide spectrum of commercial and criminal matters. He has a keen interest in the field of Information Technology Law, with special emphasis on the developing area of litigation practice in the Information Technology arena. He has been involved in cases dealing with Internet defamation, Internet fraud, on-line security breaches, trade secrets and misappropriation of confidential information, telecommunication regulatory issues and software implementation and website development disputes. He advises and represents clients on intellectual property matters relating to trade mark and copyright infringement. Lionel also advises on the developing area of Competition Law in Singapore.
Mr Tan graduated from the University of Hull, United Kingdom in 1992 with a Second Upper degree in Law. He was awarded the Sweet & Maxwell Law Prize for that year. He pursued a postgraduate degree at the University of Oxford and was conferred a Bachelor of Civil Law. He has also completed the Certified IT Project Manager Assessment course conducted by the Institute of System Science.
Claro PARLADE
Executive Director, Cyberspace Policy Centre for Asia-Pacific
Mr Parlade is the Executive Director of the Cyberspace Policy Center for Asia-Pacific, a non-profit organization that focuses on issues concerning the intersection between law, policy and technology. He pioneered the development of the Philippine Online Dispute Resolution facility (offering online arbitration and mediation, among other services) to enhance access to and quality of justice. He also pioneered the development for the Philippine telecommunications regulatory agency of an “electronic rulemaking facility” that allows online collaboration between stakeholders in the drafting of administrative regulations.
He was formerly the Chairman of the Legal and Regulatory Committee of the Information Technology and E-Commerce Council, which was then the highest policy making body in the Philippines for ICT. He currently holds numerous leadership positions in business and technology industry associations, including the International Chamber of Commerce (Philippines), the Philippine Internet Commerce Society, Philippine Computer Emergency Response Team, and the Philippine Franchise Association.
He has extensive ICT consulting experience and has been engaged in numerous projects funded by USAID, CIDA and AUSAID in areas including e-commerce, e-government, e-procurement, online dispute resolution, cybercrime and data privacy.
He obtained his law degree from the University of the Philippines, and his LLM from Osgoode School of Law, York University, Canada. He was also a Hubert Humphrey Fellow in 1999 (focused on Information Technology Law and Policy, at the American University, Washington D.C.
A practicing lawyer for more than 18 years, he is a Senior Partner in PHPEPLaw, a boutique law firm in the Philippines specializing in ADR, Technology, IP & Licensing, and commercial law.
Pauline C. REICH
Professor, Waseda University School of Law, Japan
General Editor, Cybercrime & Security published by Oxford University Press
Pauline C. Reich is an American lawyer and a Professor at Waseda University School of Law. She is Director of the Asia-Pacific Cyberlaw, Cybercrime and Internet Security Research Institute and General Editor of Cybercrime and Security, a three-volume loose-leaf series published by Oceana, a division of Oxford University Press.
Ms Reich currently serves on the American Bar Association Section of Science and Technology Task Force to develop a model Cybercrime law for developing countries worldwide. She also heads a research project of law and security professionals studying legal issues related to e-money, e-gold and micropayments in the Asia-Pacific Region.
She is a founding member of the Information Network Law Association of Japan, and a current member of the International High Tech Crime Investigators Association. She is the former Vice Chair of the Legal Services Committee of the American Chamber of Commerce in Japan and has served in various leadership roles in the American Bar Association Sections of Science and Technology, International Law and Dispute Resolution.
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Robert W. HOLLEYMAN II
President and Chief Executive Officer
Business Software Alliance
Robert Holleyman is president and chief executive officer of the Business Software Alliance (BSA), the high tech industry’s leading voice for global policies and programs that promote innovation and the continued growth of the digital economy.
Over the past two decades, the high tech industry has expanded to include devices and technologies that powerfully alter how we work and live. Under Holleyman’s leadership, BSA has anticipated the new challenges associated with these dramatic advances, developing programs around the world that foster innovation, competition, free trade, cyber security and digital copyright protection.
Holleyman has headed the alliance since 1990, overseeing BSA operations in more than 85 countries, including nine foreign offices in Europe and Asia in addition to its headquarters in Washington, D.C. He is widely known for his work on policy-related issues affecting the technology industry including international copyright laws, cyber security, trade and electronic commerce.
Holleyman has been named one of the 50 most influential people in the intellectual property world by the international magazine, Managing Intellectual Property. Before joining BSA, Holleyman spent eight years serving as counsel in the U.S. Senate and was an attorney with a leading law firm in Houston, Texas. Holleyman earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in political science at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas, and his Juris Doctor at Louisiana State University Law Center in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
Jeffrey HARDEE
Vice President and Regional Director for Asia
Business Software Alliance
Mr Jeffrey Hardee joined BSA in October 2000 as Vice President and Regional Director of BSA’s Asia regional office based in Singapore. He handles intellectual property, e-commerce and trade policy issues and oversees BSA’s education and enforcement activities in the region. He works closely with governments and local software industry associations throughout the region and speaks to the press regularly about software issues.
Before joining BSA, Mr Hardee worked for eight years with the Motion Picture Association (MPA) as Vice President Asia-Pacific. In this capacity, he worked on market access issues and legislation to protect copyrights and promote E-commerce.
Prior to the MPA, Mr Hardee was with the U.S. Department of Commerce (USDOC). He began there in 1983 as a Presidential Management Intern and went on to head the Malaysia/ Singapore/ Brunei desk and subsequently the Taiwan desk. His last assignment with USDOC was with the Foreign Commercial Service at the U.S. Embassy in Jakarta, Indonesia, where he served from 1988 to 1992. Mr Hardee earned his bachelor’s degree in economics and political science from Duke University and his master of public affairs degree from the University of Texas in Austin.
Andy HAIRE
Deputy Director-General (Telecoms)
Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore
Mr Andrew J Haire is Deputy Director-General (Telecoms) responsible for the Policy & Competition Development Group for Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore (IDA).
Since joining IDA, Mr Haire has been responsible for the formulation and implementation of policy for Singapore’s infocomm industry. Mr Haire’s experience in the telecommunications sector and understanding of the regulatory regimes worldwide allowed him to drive the market access, competition, spectrum planning and regulatory frameworks for Singapore’s liberalized telecommunications market.
Mr Haire has an established background in public competition and trade policy, alliance development, market entry and technical telecommunication issues. Prior to his current role, he served as Vice President, International Regulatory and Public Policy, for a major US technology firm.
Previous to that, he held various regulatory and corporate development portfolios at MCI Communications including the role of Senior Policy Advisor for HQ International Regulatory and Public Policy. He managed regulatory affairs involving government authorities and operators globally, and was responsible for interpreting regulatory and legislative trends. Prior to that, Mr Haire worked for IBM in various marketing, engineering and management positions.
GOH Seow Hiong
Director, Software Policy (Asia)
Business Software Alliance
Mr Goh Seow Hiong, as Software Policy for Asia with BSA, focuses on a range of ICT related policy issues such as innovation, technology neutrality, standards, interoperability, intellectual property, industry development, R&D, cyber security, cyber crime, spam, privacy, data protection, international trade and competition developments across Asia. He is responsible for representing the views of BSA’s global and regional member companies before governments and the marketplace in the Asia Pacific region.
Prior to joining BSA, Mr Goh was in legal practice at the Singapore law firm of Rajah & Tann, where he advised clients on contentious and non-contentious matters on a wide range of technological areas. His clients included international and domestic telecommunication players, ICT companies, system integrators, hardware vendors, e-commerce players, as well as organizations who are end-users of technology and various government agencies. He played an instrumental role in the firm’s emerging work in advising various foreign governments and international organizations on policy approaches and issues on ICT legislation and regulation. He undertook foreign and regional consultancy projects such as those commissioned by the World Bank.
Mr Goh was in the Singapore public service for 10 years prior to joining private legal practice. He was the Deputy Director of Infocomm Development Policy of the Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore (IDA). He was also the Special Assistant to the Chief Executive Officer of IDA and supported her in corporate matters and other pre and post merger issues in the formation of IDA. He also held the concurrent appointment of Deputy Director for Infocomm Security, where he headed an office responsible for cyber security programmes at the infrastructure, government and national levels. Prior to the creation of IDA in 1999, Mr Goh led a team responsible for the e-commerce initiatives at the then Singapore National Computer Board (NCB), where his group developed strategies to cultivate the use of e-commerce and certification authorities by businesses and the general public. He was also then the Principal Staff to Chief Executive and Chairman of NCB.
Mr Goh has a Bachelor of Arts in Computer Science, with Honors and Distinction in General Scholarship from the University of California at Berkeley, and a Master of Science in Computer Science from Stanford University. He also holds a Bachelor of Law with Honors from the University of London and a Postgraduate Diploma of Singapore Law with Merit from the National University of Singapore. He has completed the Executive Management Program in Strategic Management at the National University of Singapore. He is called to the bar of the Supreme Court of Singapore as an advocate and solicitor.
