Commissioner, Federal Trade Commission
Since joining the commission in 2009, Julie 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. Before she became a commissioner, Brill was the senior deputy attorney general and Justice, a lecturer-in-law at Columbia Law School, and an assistant attorney general for consumer protection and antitrust for the State of Vermont for more than 20 years.
Former Deputy Chief Technology Officer for Internet Policy in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy
Daniel Weitzner was responsible for online privact, cybersecurity, Internet copyright protection, and the global free flow of information on the Internet in his role as deputy
chief technology officer until the summer of 2012. Prior to joining the White House, he was associate administrator for policy at the United States Department of Commerce’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA). Before that, he served as a member of the Obama-Biden presidential transition project technology
policy team. Weitzner also founded the MIT CSAIL Decentralized Information Group, which researches social and technical aspects of the World Wide Web, has taught Internet public policy in MIT’s Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department, and was Policy Director of the World Wide Web Consortium.
C. William O’Neill Professor in Law and Judicial Administration, The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law
Professor Peter Swire is a national and global leader on privacy, cybersecurity, and related technology issues. He is director of the College’s Washington, D.C., Summer Program, a senior fellow at the Center of American Progress and Future of Privacy Forum, and policy fellow at the Center for Democracy and Technology. Under President Clinton, Swire served as chief counselor for privacy in the U.S. Office of Management and Budget. His activites there include being White House coordinator for the HIPAA medical privacy rule and chairing a White House working group on how to update wiretap laws for the Internet. In 2009 and 2010, Swire was a special assistant to President Obama for Economic Policy, serving in the National Economic Council with Lawrence Summers. Swire’s work in that role included broadband, spectrum, privacy, and other technology issues.
Professor Ann Bartow, Pace Law School
Professor Lorrie Cranor, Associate Professor of Computer Science and of Engineering and Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon University
Professor Claudia Diaz, COISC Research Group, Department of Electrical Engineering, K.U. Leuven (Belgium)
Professor Katherine Federle, The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law
John Frank, Deputy General Counsel of Microsoft Corporation
Professor A. Michael Froomkin, University of Miami School of Law
Professor Graham Greenleaf, Professor of Law, University of New South Wales (Australia)
Professor Woodrow Hartzog, Cumberland School of Law, Samford University
Kirk Herath, Vice President and Privacy Officer, Nationwide Insurance Companies
Professor Dennis Hirsch, Capital University Law School
Gus Hosein, Ph.D., Executive Director of Privacy International (United Kingdom)
Professor Anil Kalhan, Drexel University
Geoffrey Manne, Executive Director of the International Center for Law and Economics
Bartosz Marcinkowski, Partner at Domański Zakrzewski Palinka (Poland)
Mark Perry, Faculty of Law, University of Western Ontario (Canada)
Professor Guy Rub, The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law
Berin Szoka, President, TechFreedom
Professor Omer Tene, College of Management School of Law, Rishon Le Zion (Israel)
Professor Yofi Tirosh, Facult of Law, Tel Aviv University (Israel)
Professor Tal Zarsky, Faculty of Law, University of Haifa (Israel)
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