Leadership

Commission leaders are appointed by the ICC Chairman for a three-year period, renewable at the Chairman's discretion.

Chair

Joseph Alhadeff

Joseph H. ALHADEFF

Chief Privacy Strategist, Vice President, Global Public Policy, Oracle Corporation

As Chief Privacy Strategist and Vice President for Global Public Policy at Oracle Corporation, Joseph (Joe) Alhadeff oversees Oracle’s privacy programme to ensure protection of personal information across all Oracle operations and product areas. He is primarily responsible for coordinating and managing Oracle's international electronic commerce, privacy, and Internet-related policy issues.

Vice-Chair

Gerard Hartsink

Gerard B. J. HARTSINK

Senior Advisor Managing Board, ABN AMRO Bank, Chair, CLS Bank International, New York

Gerard Hartsink is a former Senior Executive Vice President of the ABN AMRO Group and had a career of managerial roles in Sales, Product Development, Information Management and Operations. He served in boards of several market infrastructures in the Securities, Payments, Forex and Cards industries and is currently the Chair of CLS Bank International in New York.

Vice-Chair

Kaisa Olkkonen

Kaisa OLKKONEN

Kaisa Olkkonen, Vice President, Government Relations, Nokia Corporation

Kaisa Olkkonen, Vice President, Government Relations, is responsible for Nokia Corporation´s policy and regulatory work globally. She is a member of the Executive Board of Digital Europe, the Board of ICC Finland and the Board of Finland-China Trade Association. Kaisa Olkkonen has more than a twenty year long professional background of working in various positions in international business enterprises.For the past years she has been especially focusing on the broad range of topics around Internet law and content licensing.

Task Force on Security and Authentication: Co-Chair

Jacques Beglinger

Jacques BEGLINGER

Attorney-at-law, D.E.S.S., SwissHoldings, Federation of Industrial and Service Groups in Switzerland

Jacques Beglinger is an expert in information technology and communications law, including computer, copyright and other Intellectual property law, Internet communications law, mergers and acquisitions, and international construction. He also serves as an arbitrator in international commercial arbitration. Mr. Beglinger served as an expert to Swiss federal lawmaking and is a founding partner of the Swiss Center of Competence for Records Managaement as well as the founding president of the Swiss Business Data Protection Association.

Task Force on Privacy and Protection of Personal Data: Co-Chair

David A. Hoffman

David A. HOFFMAN

Security Policy and Global Privacy Officer

David Hoffman is Director of Security Policy and Global Privacy Officer at Intel Corporation, in which capacity he covers Intel’s privacy compliance activities, legal support for privacy and security and external privacy and security policy engagements. Mr. Hoffman serves on the Department of Homeland Security’s Data Privacy and Integrity Advisory Committee and the Board of Directors of the National Cyber Security Alliance. Mr. Hoffman has also served on the US Federal Trade Commission’s Online Access and Security Committee, the Center for Strategic and International Studies Cyber Security Commission, the Steering Committee for BBBOnline, the TRUSTe Board of Directors, and the Board of the International Association of Privacy Professionals. Mr. Hoffman has a JD from The Duke University School of Law, where he was a Member of the Duke Law Journal. Mr. Hoffman also received an AB from Hamilton College.

Vice-Chair and Task Force on Privacy and Protection of Personal Data: Co-Chair

Christopher Kuner

Christopher KUNER

Senior Of Counsel, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, LLP

Christopher Kuner is Senior Of Counsel in the Brussels office of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, where his practice focuses on European and international data protection and privacy compliance. On behalf of ICC, he successfully negotiated the European Commission's landmark adequacy decisions regarding the standard contractual clauses for controller-to-controller and controller-to-processor transfers, and drafted a binding corporate rules (BCRs) application checklist approved by the Article 29 Working Party. He serves as the editor-in-chief of International Data Privacy Law, a journal published by Oxford University Press, and is an honorary fellow of the Centre for European Legal Studies at Cambridge University.

Task Force on Internet and Telecoms Infrastructure and Services: Chair

Eric H. Loeb

Eric H. LOEB

Vice President of International External and Regulatory Affairs, AT&T Services, Inc.

Eric Loeb represents External Affairs on the leadership team of AT&T Business Services. He is also responsible for supporting AT&T’s team of international, external and regulatory affairs advocates located around the world. In addition to developing market access strategies that enable AT&T’s expansion to meet its customers’ needs, Mr Loeb’s other responsibilities include ensuring compliance with international telecom regulations, and advocacy on international policy matters related to the stable growth of the information and communications technology sector.

Task Force on Security and Authentication: Co-Chair

Christiaan van der Valk

Christiaan VAN DER VALK

CEO, TrustWeaver

Christiaan van der Valk is co-founder of TrustWeaver, a Sweden-based provider of innovative software-as-a-service IT compliance solutions,which services many of the world’s largest corporations. He was elected a World Economic Forum (WEF) Global Leader for Tomorrow in 2000. From 1995 until 2001, he worked at ICC's Paris-based Secretariat, and served during his final years as Deputy Director of Policy and Business Practices. During his time at the ICC, Christiaan has also directly managed policy and self-regulatory activities relating to e-business, IT and telecoms. As an advisor to the Finish Ministry of Trade and Industry, he authored the 2001 Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM) E-Commerce Principles. He also sits on the Supervisory Board of the .nl domain registry foundation (SIDN), and is a member of the Executive Board of the Dutch ENUM Foundation.

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