Dave Borghuis is always interested in new privacy and technologie developments. These topics get (thankfully) more attention sice Snowden and introduction of GDPR. Active pirate since 2010 and electable for dutch House of Representatives in 2017 and 2021. Founder of hackerspace TkkrLab in Enschede. You can follow the activities at his twitter @daveborghuis.
Nathan Daschle is the President & COO of The Daschle Group, a Public Policy Advisory of Baker Donelson. He was previously the Executive Vice President for Political Strategy at Clear Channel Media and Entertainment, where he ran a business unit dedicated to political advertising. Daschle is also the founder and CEO of Ruck.us, which provides a digital toolkit for political candidates. Nathan Daschle was born December 10, 1973, in Washington D.C. to then-U.S. Representative Tom Daschle and Laurie S. Fulton, later the United States Ambassador to Denmark. Daschle received his B.A., with distinction, from Northwestern University in 1995 and his J.D.cum laude, from Harvard Law School in 2002. In October …
Dr. Keith Goldstein is a cofounder of the Israeli Pirate Party. He served as the Treasurer of Pirate Parties International (PPI) for 3 years, the General Secretary for 3 years, and he is still currently a board member. As part of his PPI work, he oversees UN activities and statements, and recently he is leading an initiative to incorporate blockchain technologies into the organization. Keith holds a bachelor’s degree in philosophy, a masters in educational leadership, a second masters in Israeli society and politics, a PhD in sociology and anthropology, and post-doctoral fellowships in education. His research often focuses on big data analyses and statistical analyses of opinion surveys …
Manouchehr Shamsrizi “is among the most publicly prominent voices of Germany’s younger generation” Washington Post) and “everywhere where the improvement of political conditions still has considerable scope” (re:publica). He is a co-founder of Humboldt University zu Berlin’s gamelab.berlin and a co-founder of the Yunus Centre for Social Business and Values at Leuphana Universität Lüneburg, a collaboration with Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Prof. Muhammad Yunus which he has initiated. Former Ariane de Rothschild Fellow of Innovative Social Entrepreneurship at the University of Cambridge and Global Justice Fellow at Yale University, a Fellow of the German Council on Foreign Relations, and was honoured as a Fellow of the Royal Society of …
Roderich Kiesewetter was born in Pfullendorf in southern Baden in 1963 and graduated from high school in Ellwangen in 1982. At that time, he already gained his first political experience in the SMV and the Schülerunion, founded a city youth ring and a local group of the International Society for Human Rights. After graduating from high school, he joined the German Armed Forces and studied economics in Munich and in Austin/Texas, graduating with a degree in business administration. Until his election to the Bundestag in 2009, he was able to gain experience in the Balkans and Afghanistan, among other places. Especially stations at NATO in Brussels and at …
Boris Sobieski is chairman of the Piratenpartei Baden-Württemberg, regional association of the Pirate Party of Germany. He’s been working since 2016 for TBT Tiefbohrtechnik. Getting behind cool, a medium-sized mechanical engineering company, where he is responsible for the operation of the server and client infrastructure, as well as the IT security. Its other tasks also include to work as Data Protection Coordinator. Before joining TBT he worked as a freelance IT consultant for 22 years, primarily in the automotive and financial industries. His title is the challenge in the IT security of small and medium-sized enterprises in terms of global information war. In terms of global conflicts, which …
Dr. Franziska Davies has been a temporary academic councilor at the Chair of Eastern European History at the Department of History of Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich since October 2016. From October 2009 to September 2016, she was a research assistant at the Chair of Eastern European History at the Department of History of the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich. In July 2016, she received her PhD (“summa cum laude”) from the Ludwig-Maximilians University of Munich. From 2003-2009 she studied Eastern European History, Medieval History and Philosophy at the Ludwig-Maximilians University of Munich, the European University of St. Petersburg and the University of Sheffield; M. A. July 2009 (grade: 1.0, “with distinction”). Stays abroad …
Anja Hirschel writes about herself: Professional activities After graduating from high school, I completed basic general training with the German Armed Forces. This was followed by studies in medical documentation and information technology at the University of Applied Sciences in Ulm (now University of Applied Science), where I graduated as a “Diplom Dokumentar (FH)”. In addition, I passed the exam to become a state-certified data protection officer. The topic of my diploma thesis was the validation of a globally implemented computer system in the field of pharmaceutical manufacturing in cooperation with Canada, India and Switzerland. (“Validation of a globally implemented computerized system”). After my studies I worked at the Institute …
Nina Azadi is born and raised in Iran/Tehran under the Islamic regime. Moved to Germany at the age of 13. She has a Master of Science in Business Mathematics, works in the financial sector and in the emerging Quantum Industry. She has been working on Iranian revolution issues since September 2022 and advocates for a proactive Iranian political strategy. “The Islamic regime is not only a threat to the Middle East, but also to the entire world, and we have reached a threshold where we must act. The JCPoA must be declared dead because it only helps the Islamic regime become a nuclear power.”
Theresa Fallon is the founder and director of the Centre for Russia Europe Asia Studies (CREAS) in Brussels. She is concurrently a member of the Council for Security Cooperation in the Asia-Pacific, a Nonresident Senior Fellow of the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, Adjunct Professor at the George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies, a member of the CEPS Task Force on AI and Cybersecurity, a member of the Loisach Group on transatlantic relations, and a member of the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations. Theresa’s current research is on EU-Asia relations, maritime security, global governance, China’s Belt and Road Initiative, and great power competition. She has testified …
