Director of Policy, EU
Facebook

Richard Allan joined Facebook in June 2009 to lead the company’s public policy work in Europe. Prior to joining Facebook, Richard was European Government Affairs Director for Cisco from September 2005. Richard writes and speaks on a wide range of technology policy issues and has been an academic visitor at the Oxford Internet Institute.

Chief Executive Officer
Family Online Safety Institute

For the past 30 years, Stephen Balkam has had a wide range of leadership roles in the nonprofit sector in the both the US and UK. He is currently the Founder and CEO of the Family Online Safety Institute (FOSI), an international, nonprofit organization headquartered in Washington, DC. FOSI’s mission is to make the online world safer for kids and their families.

Vice President, Community, Trust & Safety 
Skout

Karen Barker leads the Community, Trust and Safety team at Skout, helping the company deliver on its mission of connecting people around the world through a platform that is fun, engaging, and secure. At Skout, Trust and Safety is built into everything the company does.  As part of the Skout senior management team, Karen oversees a wide range of Trust and Safety initiatives, policy development and implementation, collaboration with the product, engineering, and design teams, while directing a team of global community managers.

Director, Privacy, Accessibility, & Online Safety Communications
Trustworthy Computing (TwC), Microsoft Corporation

Jacqueline leads a team responsible for delivering strategic communications to worldwide audiences, including consumers, government leaders, and other influencers on issues related to computing security, privacy, accessibility and family and Internet safety.

Psychologist, Author, Media Consultant

Dr. Helen Boehm is a distinguished psychologist and national authority on the impact of media on children. She leads the independent advisory service, “FCC Ready,” which certifies educational programming compliance and consults on the development of children’s toys, television and digital products. Currently, she is the Educational Consultant to “The Hub”, Discovery Communications’ new cable channel for kids and families.

Commissioner 
Federal Trade Commission

Julie Brill was sworn in as a Commissioner of the Federal Trade Commission April 6, 2010, to a term that expires on September 25, 2016. Since joining the Commission, Ms. Brill has worked actively on issues most affecting today’s consumers, including protecting consumers’ privacy, encouraging appropriate advertising substantiation, guarding consumers from financial fraud, and maintaining competition in industries involving high tech and health care.

Associate
Hogan Lovells US LLP

Eric Bukstein is an associate at Hogan Lovells US LLP in the firm's Washington, D.C. office. He advises clients on privacy and information management matters, with a particular focus on health information privacy and health IT.

CHIS & Internet Consultant

John Carr is one of the world’s leading authorities on children and young people’s use of the internet and associated new technologies. He is currently a Senior Expert Adviser to the International Telecommunication Union and has previously been an Expert Adviser to the European Union. John is also a former member of Microsoft’s Policy Advisory Board for Europe, the Middle East and Africa. In addition John has been engaged professionally to advise several, major high tech companies.

Director of the Office of Educational Technology
U.S. Department of Education.

Karen Cator is the Director of the Office of Educational Technology at the U.S. Department of Education. She has devoted her career to creating the best possible learning environments for this generation of students. Prior to joining the department, Cator directed Apple's leadership and advocacy efforts in education.

Senior Adviser, Editorial Policy
BBC

Julian is Senior Adviser, Editorial Policy at the BBC. He has been responsible for writing, updating and advising on the Editorial Guidelines for the BBC’s online services since 1997. Julian is a member of the UK Council for Child Internet Safety and the ICT Principles Coalition in Europe. He sits on the Funding Council of the Internet Watch Foundation. 

Executive Director
NetSafe

Martin Cocker joined NetSafe as the Executive Director in March 2006. Before that he worked in the ICT industry for 12 years. He doesn’t pretend that it makes him an ICT expert - they were sales and marketing roles. Sure, in a room full of non-ICT industry people he’s a nerd - but in a room full of ICT people, he's certainly not anointed with that title.

Coordinator of Instructional Technology
Forsyth County Schools

Dr. Tim Clark is the Coordinator of Instructional Technology for Forsyth County Schools in Georgia. He has formerly been a school-based instructional technology specialist and has been an educator for over twenty years. In addition to teaching in the regular classroom, he has taught ESOL and gifted.

Founder & Executive Director, Net Family News Inc.
Co-director, ConnectSafely.org

Author, journalist and youth advocate Anne Collier is co-founder and co-director of ConnectSafely.org; founder and executive director of the nonprofit Net Family News, Inc.; and editor of NetFamilyNews.org.

Head of Privacy, Office of Privacy
Sprint

Maureen Cooney, Head of Privacy, Office of Privacy, Sprint, leads a multidisciplinary team of privacy professionals addressing consumer privacy issues.  She has more than a decade of privacy leadership as an attorney, policymaker, and privacy officer in the Washington, DC area.  

Senior Vice President 
Hart Research

Abigail Davenport is a partner with Hart Research Associates.  Since joining the firm in 1994, she has conducted qualitative and quantitative research for issue advocacy and non-profit organizations, media, trade associations, political candidates, and corporations.  Today, she primarily leads research projects for the firm’s non-profit and private-sector clients, moderating focus groups and conducting survey research to inform public policy efforts, public education campaigns and those aimed at changing social norms, corporate-reputation and brand-research projects, public affairs messaging, and corporate social responsibility efforts.

Executive Director
NetChoice

Steve DelBianco is a well-known expert on internet governance, online consumer protection, online privacy, and internet taxation.   Steve leads NetChoice in promoting the integrity and availability of the internet, and has become a fixture in internet policy debates in the states, in Washington, and at global internet governance organizations. 

Chief Privacy Officer, Policy
Facebook

Erin Egan is Facebook’s first Chief Privacy Officer, Policy. In this role, Erin works with policymakers and educates them about Facebook’s commitment to ensuring the privacy and safety of its users. Prior to joining Facebook, Erin was a partner and co-chair of Covington & Burling's Global Privacy and Data Security practice group, where she represented technology and media companies on privacy and                                           data security matters.
 

Founder and Director
The Massachusetts Aggression Reduction Center, Bridgewater State College

Elizabeth Kandel Englander is a professor of Psychology and the founder and Director of the Massachusetts Aggression Reduction Center at Bridgewater State University, a Center which delivers anti-violence and anti-bullying programs, resources, and research for the state of Massachusetts and nationwide.  She is a nationally recognized researcher and expert in the area of bullying and cyberbullying, childhood causes of violence, aggression and abuse, and child development.  She has a particular interest in technological aggression and how it interacts with peer abusiveness in general.

ICM Registry LLC
General Counsel

Ms. Falco currently works with ICM Registry as their General Counsel and is responsible for corporate legal strategies and compliance. Ms. Falco also serves on the Board of Directors for The International Foundation of Online Responsibility (IFFOR). Sheri is a corporate and intellectual property attorney as well as a best practices ambassador on consumer protection issues.

Director of Privacy Online Program
Entertainment Software Rating Board

Dona Fraser is Director of Privacy Online at the Entertainment Software Rating Board (ESRB), a non-profit, self-regulatory body that independently assigns ratings, enforces advertising guidelines and helps ensure responsible online privacy practices for the interactive entertainment software industry.

Attorney General of Maryland

Douglas F. Gansler was elected to a second term as the Attorney General of Maryland on November 2nd, 2010. In that election, he was the only statewide candidate in the nation to run unopposed in both the primary and general elections. He credits that enviable position, and the 1.3 million votes he received, to the fine work of the entire staff at the Maryland Office of the Attorney General.

Special Projects Coordinator 
Family Online Safety Institute

Nancy Gifford arrives at the Family Online Safety Institute with a varied criminal and civil law background.  For the past two years, Nancy was an attorney for the Center for Medicare Advocacy, a non-profit law firm based in Connecticut. In this role, Nancy represented individuals in Administrative Law Judge hearings and assisted in development and presentation of federal cases challenging Medicare policy.

Executive Vice President, Programs
ChildFund

Mr. Ghanim has 24 years of international development experience including executive leadership positions with international organizations in Africa, Asia and the USA.

Secretariat
UK Council for Child Internet Safety (UKCCIS)

Judith Grant works for the Department for Education in London, where she heads up the Child Internet Safety Team and the Secretariat for the UK Council for Child Internet Safety (UKCCIS).

Responsible Gaming Manager
bwin.party digital entertainment

Joachim Haeusler is the Responsible Gaming Manager of bwin.party digital entertainment, the world’s largest listed online gambling business, providing online gambling in a safe environment geared to moderate recreational gambling to more than 3 millions of active customers per year.