Gregor Virant was born on 4 December 1969 in Ljubljana. He studied law at the Faculty of Law of the University of Ljubljana, where he was also awarded his doctorate in law. He furthered his education at Glasgow Caledonian University.

Dr. Gregor Virant is a habilitated professor at the Faculty of Administration, University of Ljubljana. From 1995 to 1999 he was legal adviser at the Constitutional Court. In the period from June 2000 to August 2004 he held the position of State Secretary for Public Administration. He has been a member of the National Electoral Commission, a member of the Council of Officials representing professional experts, and he represented Slovenia on the OECD Public Governance Committee (until August 2004) and was a member of the European Co-ordination of General Directors responsible for the field of public governance (from June 2000 to August 2004).

Dr. Virant is the author of numerous expert and scientific articles in the area of constitutional and administrative law, as well as in the sphere of public administration, and has also written a university text book entitled Regulation of Public Administration. He speaks English and French.

 

Mr. Siim Kallas has been an active participant in the restoration of Estonian statehood and has served in Estonia as Prime Minister, Minister of Finance, Minister of Foreign Affairs and President of the Central Bank. He has been elected to the Estonian Parliament three times. He also held the position of the Chairman of the Estonian Reform Party since the party’s creation in 1994 until November 2004, after which he became the Honorary Chairman of the party. Since November 2004, Mr Siim Kallas is a Vice-President of the European Commission in charge of Administration, Audit and Anti-fraud.

Career in detail:

Since November 2004 Vice-President of European Commission

May 2004 November 2004 Member of European Commission
2003-2004 Member of Parliament and the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Parliament
2002-2003 Prime Minister of the Republic of Estonia
1999-2002 Minister of Finance of the Republic of Estonia
1995-1999 Member of Parliament and the Defense Committee of the Parliament
1995-1996 Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Estonia
1991-1995 President of the Bank of Estonia
1989-1991 Chairman of the Estonian Central Association of Trade Unions
1986-1989 Deputy Editor of Estonian daily newspaper “Rahva Hääl”
1979-1986 Director of the Estonian Central Board of Savings Banks
1975-1979 Finance Ministry of the Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic

 

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Francisco García Morán holds a degree in Mathematics from the University of Seville and a degree in Computer Science from the Polytechnic University of Madrid.

He started his carrier at the University of Seville and Ministry of Education and Science of the Regional Government of Andalusia where he worked as a head of IT service.

Since he joined the European Commission in November 1986, he has continued working in the IT area, first at the Informatics Directorate and then at the Directorate-General for Translation.

In 2001 he was appointed Director of Informatics at the Directorate-General for Personnel and Administration. He was responsible for establishment of the Directorate-General for Informatics (DIGIT) in May 2004 of which he was appointed Director General in November 2005.

The Directorate-General for Informatics defines the IT strategy of the European Commission, provides its ICT infrastructure and since January 2007 is also responsible for the IDABC programme (Interoperable Delivery of pan-European eGovernment Services to public Administrations, Businesses and Citizens).

He is member of the Management Board of ENISA.

Jan Deprest is Chairman of the Board of Directors at FEDICT since 06/2002.

Career Summary:

From 1999 to 06/2002: Managing Director at Siemens Business Services Belux. Within the Belux organisation in charge of:

• the general policy,
• the strategy and budget determination,
• the transformation and change management,
• the general HR policy (together with the HR Director),
• the escalation management for running projects and the coordination with the Siemens Group.

Also member of the Senior Management Team of Siemens Business Services Worldwide.
From 1986 to 1999: Associate Partner at Andersen Consulting (now Accenture)

Education:
Degree in Commercial and Financial Sciences – V.E.H
Master in Business Engineering – UFSIA

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Working as Assistant at the Institute for Public International Law and International Relations, University of Vienna, from 1991 on, and practising as expert for public international law at the Federal Ministry of Defence from 1995, Peter joined the Federal Chancellery in 1998. There he worked with the Constitutional Service (from 2001-2004 as head of unit), mainly in the field of public and international as well as european law and in the field of legal information and legal informatics. Before becoming head of department for E-Government in 2005, Peter was heading a unit at the Chief Information Office at the Federal Chancellery.

Peter is acting as Austrian representative for issues of eGovernment, legal questions of eGovernment and eSignatures and legal informatics in various EU-fora and international institutions.

Since 1992 he is lecturer at the Austrian Academy for Public Administration, since 1999 also at the postgraduate-program (www.informationsrecht.at) on ICT-law in Vienna.

Peter is author of a number of publications mainly dealing with issues of public international and european law and legal informatics/ eGovernment.

Within the IDABC Unit of DG DIGIT, Gzim Ocakoglu is the coordinator of security activities, responsible for the definition, development and promotion of IDABC security measures (e.g. IDABC certification services...).

He is currently leading two major actions: the definition of “common specifications for eIDM interoperability” and the “preliminary study on the mutual recognition of eSignatures for eGovernment applications”. Prior to joining the European Commission, he has been working for 10 years in the telecommunications sector, for both service providers and equipment vendors. Gzim Ocakoglu holds a degree of Electro-Mechanical Engineer from the “Université Libre de Bruxelles” and a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering from the University of Minnesota.

Hans Graux is an IT lawyer at the Brussels based law firm time.lex (www.timelex.eu). He graduated in Law in 2002, and obtained a complementary degree in IT in 2003. He then joined the Interdisciplinary Centre for Law and Information Technology of the Catholic University of Leuven (www.icri.be), where he did fundamental research on a number of IT law related issues, with a specific focus on electronic identity management through the European ModinisIDM Study. In May 2005 he joined the IT law department of the Brussels based law firm Lawfort, where he continued his participation in a number of European level studies. His expertise lies mainly in the collection and analysis of legal and policy information in international studies, and in formulating specific policy recommendations in this field. In July 2007, he co-founded the IT law firm time.lex, where he is currently a partner and legal counsel.

Tarvi Martens, born in 1969, has been a key figure in the Estonian IT and infosecurity field for the past dozen years. He has an MSc degree from Tallinn Technical University, with his thesis being on the theme “On Evidential Value of Digital Signatures”.

Tarvi was among the originators of the Estonian ID card project in 1996 and has been a supporter and dedicated evangelist of it ever since. In 2002, Tarvi joined SK where he has been driving the success of Estonian PKI environment.

In 2003 Tarvi started with the e-voting project in order to provide Estonian electoral system with Internet voting capability. The system was used widescale in local government elections in 2005 and in parliamentary elections in 2007.

Tarvi is a frequent speaker in European IT-security events and representative of the Estonian Government in various EU working groups.

Alejandro Moya holds an engineering degree and has followed MBA studies at the Polytechnic University of Madrid. He has an extensive professional experience both in the private ICT services sector and in the European Commission.

Alejandro has been responsible for the eGovernment Action Plan adopted by the European Commission in 2006. He co-organised the Lisbon Ministerial eGovernment Conference 2007 together with the Portuguese Presidency. He created the eGovernment Observatory and is an active actor in eGovernment activities at the European Commission.

I am a Strategic Development Officer at VERVA (Swedish Administrative Development Agency) with the responsibility for EU-coordination on issues related to electronic public services. I am also member of the Management Committee of the IDABC-programme.

I was secretary of the Swedish association “Top leader forum” at the Swedish Ministry of Finance for three years with the responsibility to promoting development of electronic public services.

In the early nineties I was a ICT-strategist for media and culture at the Swedish Ministry of Culture for three years.

I started my career as a financial Controller for five years at the Swedish Ministry of Housing and Planning.

Education:

Universtity of Stockholm

BSc, Economics, management and organization, 1985 – 1990

Gavino Murgia is the Deputy Head of the IDABC unit of the Directorate General for Informatics at the European Commission.

He has been active in the eGovernment sector in the IDABC programme and its predecessor IDA II programme, dealing with different subjects like Architecture Guidelines, Quality Assurance, the Your Europe portal and the coordination of the IDABC Work Programme.

Before joining the Commission in 1994, he worked in the private sector for several years on IT matters, as project manager and business analyst.

He has a master degree in electronic engineering.

Serge Novaretti is a French university IT engineer working within the European Commission for the IDABC programme. He began his career within the ministry of defence, more precisely in establishing IT networks at different levels (local up to ministerial). Subsequently, in 2000, he initiated the first French national government network and email system before joining, as a seconded national expert, the European Commission in 2002 to help building the TESTA network. At the same time he launched also some activities in the field of eProcurement in order to contribute to the technical implementation of the new public procurement legislative framework.

After returning to France in 2004 for two years within the ministry of culture and communication as deputy head of IT department, he is now working again within the IDABC unit of Directorate-General for Informatics as a programme manager, dealing in particular with Interoperability issues.

Senator for Finances, Bremen

Dr. Martin Hagen studied political science and German literature at the Universities of Hamburg, Germany, and Southern Illinois University at Carbondale from 1991 to 1997. He received a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Bremen, Germany, in 2001. He has published widely on issues of eDemocracy and eGovernment, with a special emphasis on comparative studies between the U.S. and Germany (see www.martinhagen. net). Since 2001 he has been a member of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen’s government, Germany’s smallest state. He is responsible for E-Government strategy (deputy section head). Since 2003, he is the representative of the German states in the IDABC program of the European Commission.

Emilio is an EC official in charge of eprocurement and epractice.eu, with wide experience in eGovernment developments, synergies facilitation and IT integration.

Emilio works for the Commission since 2000. He was formerly an IT consultant and a civil servant in the Spanish administration. At the European Commission he has held positions as head of software development and as project officer.

Emilio is fluent in English, French, Italian and Spanish. He has a Master of Science in Information Technologies and a Postgraduate diploma in Management of Information Technologies and Communications.

More details at http://epractice.eu/people/emilio

Nationality: Norwegian (Scandinavian). Born in Sweden by Norwegian parents and working in Denmark

Per-Olav has been trained to speak Master level of Computer Science fluently at the Lund University, Institute of Technology and brings working experiences from the “hellholes” of socket programming to the “tearooms” of eGovernment. Currently Per-Olav holds a position as Senior Adviser/IT Architecture at the Danish National IT and Telecom Agency and engages in the Danish National Interoperability Framework, OIO Kataloget.

Boris Šaletić is a senior advisor at the Ministry of Public Administration, where large scale web architecture and open source development have been the main focus of his work. He is currently responsible for Slovenian presidency website, intranet portal, live streaming and on-demand media solutions. Boris is also active in starting the national open source repository in Slovenia and promoting open source and open standards within the government. He has been involved in the IDABC Programme as an Open Source Expert since 2005.

Seconded National Expert, IDABC Programme, Directorate-General for Informatics (DIGIT), European Commission, Brussels

Barbara Held presently works as Detached National Expert at the European Commission Programme for “Interoperable Delivery of pan-European eGovernment Services (IDABC)”. She is responsible for the IDABC projects promoting on Open Source Software (OSS) in public administration - including a project for a European OSS Repository. She also coordinates the programme’s activities on Open Document Exchange Formats.

Being a Desk Officer at the German Federal Ministry of the Interior in Berlin, Barbara Held formerly served at the German Government’s Coordination and Advisory Board for IT in the Administration (KBSt), responsible for software strategy and OSS policy.

She holds a PhD in mass communication sciences from Free University Berlin.

Lena Jönsson, born 1958

Director-General of the Swedish Administrative Development Agency (Verva)

Master of Laws (LLM), Lund University, 1982

Graduate Administrative Sociologist – orientated towards local government administration –Lund University, 1985

District Court Clerk at Sundsvall District Court, 1985 to 1987

Administrative Court of Appeal in Sundsvall 1987 to 1992, Associate Judge, 1991

Legal Counsel (in-house), Municipality of Malmö 1988 to 1989 (on leave of absence from the Administrative Court of Appeal in Sundsvall)

Riksdagen (Swedish Parliament); Secretary of the Committee on the Constitution 1992 to 1995 and Deputy Clerk of the Chamber, 1993 to 1995

Ministry of Defence, Director of Planning 1995 to 1997 and State Secretary 1997 to 2000

Director-General of the National Gaming Board, 2000 to 2005

Director-General of the Swedish Administrative Development Agency (Verva) as of 1.1.2006

Federal Ministry of the Interior

Martin Schallbruch is the Chief Information Officer of the German Federal Ministry of the Interior. Project management for E-Government 2.0 initiative as well as coordination of Deutschland-Online E-Government strategy is located in his office. Schallbruch oversees IT security policy of Federal government and Federal Office for Information Security. He is also head of passport and ID card service of Federal government. Before he was appointed CIO he was personal assistant to State Secretary Zypries within the Ministry of the Interior.

Educated at the Technical University in Berlin, where he gained M. Sc. in computer science, Schallbruch became a research fellow at Humboldt University Berlin, before he was appointed head of university IT service centre.

Vice President, Capgemini Global Public Sector

Graham has worked internationally for most of his career, involved in a host of different programmes, firstly in the Oil & Gas Industry, where he worked for Shell International across four continents. Then for Capgemini.

He has been involved in public services reform programmes since the late 1990’s. He presently manages a portfolio of topics for Capgemini globally comprising eGovernment, Cities & Regions, and Shared Services.

He has been involved with the European Commission as sponsor for the pan-Europe on-line eGovernment benchmarking survey since its inception – now in its 7th measurement.

Graham’s work requires a high degree of familiarity with developments and practices in all countries, and involves managing an international network of thought leaders; developing the Capgemini’s international strategy; and supporting in-country projects.

graham.colclough@capgemini.com

Tel: +44 771 031 3944