Marie-Thérèse Alajouanine, Chairman
ITU-T Study Group 2, ARCEP
Marie-Thérèse Alajouanine received an Engineer in Physics Diploma of Industrial Companies Management with additional studies in telecommunications. Throughout her career, she occupied various functions for France Telecom including: a telecommunications operator, a sales manager in a Regional Direction, a deputy Director of GSM Program, and a deputy Director for International Standardization. From 2001 until now,
she has been responsible for international standardization coordination in Autorité de Régulation des Communications Electroniques et des Postes (French regulator). Some of her standardization activities include participating in/on: the ITU-T Study Group 2, TSAG, ITU Council,Plenipotentiary Conference, World Telecommunication Development Conference, World Telecommunication Standardization Assembly (as Vice-Chairman of the Assembly in 2000). In 2002, she chaired the Editorial Committee at Plenipotentiary Conference and at the World Telecommunication Development Conference. Marie-Therese was nominated in 2002 as Chairman of ITU-T Study Group 2, in charge of operational aspects of service provision, networks and performance. Marie-Therese participates in groups of CEPT (European Posts and Telecommunications Administrations Association) dealing with ITU matters. In particular, in 2003/2004, has been in charge of CEPT project team dealing with the preparation of European positions for ITU World Telecommunication Standardization Conference. At the French level, she participates in different groups dealing with international standardization coordination. In particular, she chairs the Committee in charge of the coordination of ITU-T work, gathering all French public and private sectors.
Bo Bergner, Technical Director
National Post & Telecom Agency, Sweden
After a long time in export business in Swedish industries, Bo Bergner 1993
joined the just organized Telecom Agency just a couple of months after the
telecommunications were liberalized in Sweden. As technical director, Bo has
been involved in the whole liberalization process in telecommunication and
radio matters both in Sweden and the EU in the sector today called
electronic communication.
Zsolt Boszormenyi
Head of RSOE Havaria
After working in the security sector, Zsolt has joined RSOE and started to develop and implement the Havaria Information Service. During the permanent operation Zsolt contacts many public organizations in Hungary and worldwide as well. Zsolt maintains the Havaria Information Service website operated together by the General-Directorate of National Disaster Management (OKF) and RSOE, in co-operation with the Crisis Management Centre of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, provides useful information regarding emergency situations and their prevention. Extraordinary events happening in Hungary, Europe and other areas of the World are being monitored in 24 hours per day. He takes major role in the introduction of the Common Alerting Protocol in Hungary, such as the introduction of the CAP-based emergency communication between OKF and the National Weather Services in Hungary.
Tor Bother
UN/OCHA
No bio available.
Art Botterell, Manager
Community Warning System, Contra Costa County, California
Art Botterell has more than thirty years experience in emergency communications, information systems and mass media. He has served on the
national Emergency Response Team of the U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and with the California Office of Emergency Services. More
recently he has served as a consultant to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and other public-safety and emergency management agencies in the
U.S. and Asia. Art was the architect of the Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) and a founding Trustee of the Partnership for Public Warning. He is
also a Research Associate of the Centre for Policy Research in Science and Technology at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, British Columbia. He
is now Community Warning System Manager for the County of Contra Costa, California.
Eliot Christian, Information Technology Specialist
U.S. Geological Survey
Eliot Christian has had a pioneering role in defining and implementing the
Common Alerting Protocol, and more generally addressing the Challenge of
Public Warning. This work builds on his promotion of decentralized
information access worldwide, enhancing the free flow of information with
networks while maintaining continuity with traditional bibliographic
practice. A recipient of the Madison Award for championing the public Right
to Know, he helped establish key architectural approaches in policy,
standards, and technology, building consensus not only across agencies but
with international standards bodies, corporations, and libraries. Eliot
joined the United States Geological Survey in 1986, following 11 years with
the Veterans Administration.
James F. Devine, Senior Advisor for Science Applications
US Geological Survey
James Devine has been the Senior Advisor for Science Applications since
1994, after having served 15 years as Assistant Director for Engineering
Geology. Throughout these time periods he has provided Bureau policy and
guidance on: natural hazards, nuclear waste siting, critical structures
such as hospitals and dams; served as an advisor to the Nuclear Regulatory
Commission on the seismic and geologic safety of nuclear power plants;
advises the Director on all Survey Alaskan matters and compliance with
National Environmental Protection Act requirements; managed bureau
exploration program on National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska and natural gas
production system for Barrow, Alaska and numerous other science application
programs. He provides senior oversight of the USGS use of National Technical
Means. He also served with the Secretariat of the United Nations
International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction from 1988-1990 in
Geneva, Switzerland. Prior to 1980, he held various scientific positions
addressing such problems as earthquake research, seismic and geologic safety
of nuclear power plants, blasting safety and other engineering geologic
problems. James is a graduate of West Virginia University with a B.S. in
Geology and a retired U.S. Army Colonel (Reserve) and a graduate of the U.S.
Army War College. He is a member of the Association of Engineering
Geologists, a registered Professional Geologist/Geophysicist in Idaho. He
has received the DOI Meritorious and Distinguished Service Awards and the
Presidential Meritorious Rank (SES) award (1987), the Presidential
Meritorious Rank (SL) award (2004), and various Department of Army awards
including the Legion of Merit.
Patrick J. Gannon, President and CEO
OASIS
Patrick Gannon is President and CEO of OASIS. He has served on the OASIS
Board of Directors since July 2000. Patrick has also served since 2000 with
the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE), as Chairman of
the Team of Specialists for Internet Enterprise Development, which advises
governments in transitional economies on best practices for electronic
business. He has worked for BEA Systems, as Senior Vice President in the
eCommerce Integration Division. Patrick also served as Vice President of
Marketing and Industry Programs at Netfish Technologies and as Vice
President of Strategic Programs for the CommerceNet Consortium, directing
research and development efforts in new Internet commerce standards such as
XML. While at CommerceNet, he was the first ProjectLeader for RosettaNet and
served as Executive Director for the Open Buying on the Internet (OBI)
initiative. Patrick is co-author of the book: Building Database-Driven Web
Catalogs and is an international speaker on electronic business and Web
Services standards.
Pierre Alexandre Genillon
WorldSpace
No bio available.
Gordon Gow, Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Extension
University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada
Gordon Gow is Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Extension at the
University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada where he leads a research program
on communication technology and public safety. He is author of numerous
journal articles, as well as the book Policymaking for Critical
Infrastructure (Ashgate, 2005) and co-author of several reports for the
Canadian government on emergency communications, including a report
published in early 2004 on Canada's west coast tsunami warning system. He
is currently involved with the Canadian government on its national public
alerting initiative, as well as serving as Honorary Secretary for the
Canadian chapter of the Cellular Emergency Alerting Service Association
(CEASa), a non-profit group that promotes the use of mobile telephones for
public alerting. Prior to his return to Canada in 2006, Godon convened the
Regulation and Policy Programme in the Department of Media and
Communications at the London School of Economics.
Ian Harris, Chartered Engineer, Fellow of the Institute of Electrical
Engineers, Consultant
Research In Motion
Ian Harris is a Technical Consultant to Research In Motion (RIM) — the
company probably more well known for its 'Blackberry'. He has been an active
member in GSM and 3GPP standards since 1988 and for several years chaired
the group responsible for Messaging Specifications — namely the Short
Message Service (Text Messaging), Cell Broadcast Service and the Multi Media
Messaging Service. He remains the rapporteur for 3GGP SMS and CBS
specifications. Prior to joining RIM, he was employed by Vodafone Ltd from
its inception for a period of 18 years. During that time he became one of
the pioneers for the design of the Short Message Service and was responsible
for developing SMS from its initial concept into a viable commercial service
which now provides a key revenue source for many mobile telephone network
operators. Since joining RIM, he has continued to contribute towards the
development and enhancement of various 3GPP standards and has now brought
his experience into the work of EMTEL.
Dr. John L. Hayes, Director
World Weather Watch Department, World Meteorological Organization
Dr. John (Jack) L. Hayes is Director of the World Weather Watch Department, World Meteorological Organization (WMO). In this position he is responsible for the overall coordination of operational meteorological activities within WMO focussed on Members' weather forecast and warning needs; the World Weather Watch includes the Global Observing System, the Global Telecommunication System, and the Global Data-processing and Forecasting and Emergency Response Activity programmes, operating in 187 WMO Member countries. Prior to joining the World Meteorological Organization, Jack was a senior executive in the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), where he was the Director of the Office of Science and Technology for NOAA's National Weather Service, the Deputy Director of NOAA's Ocean Service and the Deputy Director of NOAA Research. During this period he received a Presidential Rank Award and was recognised in 2003 as one of the Federal Government's top 100 executives in Information Technology. Before joining NOAA, Jack was the General Manager of the Advanced Weather Interactive Processing System programme for Litton-PRC, where he led the successful development and national deployment of the system for NOAA. Prior to that, he served 28 years with the United States Air Force in a variety of positions concluding his career as Commander of the Air Force Global Weather Center and Air Force Weather Agency. Jack received both his PhD and Master of Science degrees in Meteorology from the Naval Post Graduate School in Monterey, California, USA. He is a Fellow in the American Meteorological Society.
Chip Hines, Director of the Office for Interoperability and Compatibility
US Department of Homeland Security
Chip Hines has over 30 years of experience working in the emergency
management field, with more than 15 of these spent developing and managing federal programs and systems designed to assist the United States government in being better prepared to manage emergencies. He has worked in the areas of National Preparedness, Emergency Operations, State and Local Preparedness as well as in Preparedness, Training and Exercises at the federal level. He is currently the Acting Director of the Office for Interoperability and Compatibility and Program Manager for the Disaster Management eGov Initiative, both run out of the Science and Technology Directorate, a directorate within the Department of Homeland Security. He holds a Masters of Science degree in National Resources Policy from the Industrial College of the Armed Forces, National Defense University, and is a PMI certified Project Management Professional (PMP).
Dr. Renato Iannella, Principal Scientist
National ICT Australia (NICTA)
Renato is a Principal Scientist at the National ICT Australia (NICTA) research laboratory where he leads the Smart Applications For Emergencies (SAFE) project. His research covers technologies and standards in information architectures, rights management, and policy-based web infrastructures. Renato has extensive experience in the development of Internet, Web, and Mobile technologies and standards and was a former member of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Advisory Board.
Renato also is an Adjunct Associate Professor at the University of Queensland, Visiting Associate Professor at the University of Hong Kong and was previously the Chief Scientist at LiveEvents Wireless, IPR Systems and Principal Research Scientist at the Distributed Systems Technology Centre (DSTC).
Elysa Jones, Engineering Program Manager
Warning Systems, Inc.
Elysa Jones holds a Master of Science Degree in Computer Science from the University of Alabama in Huntsville. She comes to the emergency
management community after over twenty years supporting Army DoD in the missile defense program. In that capacity, her work ranged from data
reduction and analysis of phased array sensor data to managing software support for a large scale computer simulation facility. She was involved
in the early IEEE work that led to the TCP/IP standards. For the past eight years, Mrs. Jones has been the Engineering Program Manager for
Warning Systems, Inc. in the design, development and deployment of over 70,000 Tone Alert Radios and numerous software controlled dissemination
systems. In this capacity, she has served as a board member for the Partnership for Public Warning, works closely with the Emergency
Interoperability Consortium and chairs the OASIS Emergency Management Technical Committee. This committee developed the first emergency data
standard for communicating warnings, the Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) as well as the Emergency Data Exchange Language Distribution Element
(EDXL-DE) for defining routing assertions for any emergency data. In February 2006, she was awarded the first annual Leadership in Emergency
Interoperability Award granted by the Emergency Interoperability Consortium.
Peter Koltermann, Head, Tsunami Co-ordination Unit
Intergovernmental
Oceanographic Commission, UNESCO
Dr Koltermann heads the Tsunami Co-ordination Unit of the Intergovernmental
Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO in Paris. He is an oceanographer with a
Dr rer nat of Hamburg University, Germany. His career in oceanography moved
from regional to global scales, from deep ocean to high latitudes, or polar
oceanography. Some four of his more than 35 years in oceanography he spent
at sea with research vessels. His career also moved between fieldwork and
shore-based activities. From 1987 – 1991 he was director of the Project
Office for the World Ocean Circulation Experiment, hosted by the than
Institute of Oceanographic Sciences in Wormley, England. Later he returned
to the Bundesamt f. Seeschifffahrt und Hydrography in Hamburg to head a
group providing scientific advise for legal and administrative regulatory
work in the EEZ and coastal zone.
Don Miller, Telecommunications and Warnings Systems Manager for Washington
State Emergency Management
Don Miller is the Telecommunications and Warnings Systems Manager for
Washington State Emergency Management with over 30 years experience in
Telecommunications Engineering, Computer Networking and Information Systems
Management. He currently has the responsibility for the operation and
maintenance of statewide networks to include the Emergency Alert System,
Microwave networks, Multiple Radio systems, Wide Area and Local Area
Computer Networks, Telephone systems and Satellite networks. Washington
State is faced with the possibility of every conceivable disaster with the
exception of a hurricane. Don has the task of maintaining systems that
warn the public in harms way and for coordinating communications for the
responding emergency management agencies and staff on a statewide basis. He
was one of the 16 Board of Trustees for the Partnership for Public Warning,
a national organization that was dedicated to developing a common alerting
protocol for warning systems of the future.
Efraim Petel, President
Hormann America, Inc.
Efraim Petel, specialized in emergency notification systems for more than
three decades, has an international reputation as the public warning and
notification system expert. In the 90s Mr. Petel worked with Sage Alerting
Systems, during the FCC transition from the Emergency Broadcast System to
today's Emergency Alert System (EAS). He was also part of Sage's development
team in manufacturing the widely used EAS ENDEC.With Sage, Efraim installed
a few multi-million-dollar alert systems in states and counties throughout
the U.S. As Vice-President of American Signal Corporation, he developed and
managed siren installations throughout the U.S. Efraim established Hormann
America in California (1999) to assist emergency response professionals with
modern alerting and notification systems and products, as well as consulting
and design services. In 2003, Mr. Petel was asked to join a panel of experts
whose mandate was to write a National Policy for Warning. He participated in
the development of warning systems using the Common Alerting Protocol (CAP).
His work in CAP development continues, in coordination with experts in
government and private industry.Using this breadth of knowledge Efraim
developed a CAP suite of emergency services, AlertNet, a "System of Systems"
for public and private warning. AlertNet is an operating system with a
spectrum of alerting tools that can be added in a plug and play method,
resulting from his many years' experience as an engineer and end-user of
emergency systems, starting with 20 years of service in the Israel Defense
Forces.
Thomas Peter
UN/OCHA
No bio available.
Róbert Rafael, Deputy Secretary-General
National Association of Radio Distress-Signalling and Infocommunications (RSOE)
Róbert Rafael received a diploma at the Budapest University of Economic
Sciences and Public Administration with faculty of Information Management
and European Union. While working at the Ministry of Economy and Transport,
Maritime and Inland Waterways Transport Department as referent in 2004-2005,
Robert was involved with the following activities: Project planning and
management (TEN-T, Schengen Fund, Interreg), reporting; Project assessment
(Interreg); River Information Services — RIS (management, external
relations, coordination, studies, reports); Infrastructure development
(national public ports, RIS); Finance (budget planning, implementation,
accounting, registration, money transfer, reporting); Public procurement
(editing/preparing documentation, managing the process, reporting to EU);
and PR activities (writing/editing/publishing articles in the field of
inland navigation). While working at RSOE since February 2006 as Deputy
Secretary-General/Project manager, Robert has been involved with the
following activities: Project planning and management (TEN-T), reporting;
River Information Services — RIS (management, external relations,
coordination, studies, reports); Infrastructure development (RIS); and
Coordination of RSOE HAVARIA Information Service.
Frank Robles
Neopolitan Networks
No bio available.
Andrew Rogers
Neopolitan Networks
No bio available.
Tony Rutkowski, Vice-President for Regulatory Affairs and Standards,
Verisign
Tony Rutkowski is Vice-President for Regulatory Affairs and Standards at VeriSign, Inc. and deals with development, articulation, and implementation of its regulatory and standards related products domestically and internationally for security and Next Generation Networks. He also participates significantly in diverse domestic and international proceedings and forums in global and domestic venues including ITU-T, OASIS, ETSI, ATIS, and INCITS that involve emergency messaging and Identity Management. He is a prominent engineer-lawyer whose career has spanned more than 40 years in industry and government in the U.S. and abroad - focusing primarily on pursuing cutting edge business and technology developments. Beginning with leading design projects for Apollo launch support communications and control systems at Kennedy Space Center. Over the past several decades, he has been a corporate and government technology strategist, public official, organization leader, consultant, lecturer, publisher, and author of several books, agency proceedings, and scores of articles in the Internet, telecom, mass media, and aerospace worlds. He has enjoyed commercial business positions with SAIC Network Solutions, General Magic, Sprint International, Horizon House, Pan American Engineering, General Electric, and Evening News Association; government and elected positions with the Federal Communications Commission, the International Telecommunication Union, and Cape Canaveral City Council; and educational positions with the Internet Society, MIT, NY Law School and GeorgiaTech. He is currently a Distinguished Senior Research Fellow at the Georgia Tech Center for International Strategy, Technology and Policy. For fun, he enjoys long distance road biking, mountain climbing, photography, writing, and perfecting his skills as a barista. More extensive information can be found at http://www.ngi.org/rutkowski.html.
Dr. Ashbindu Singh, Regional Coordinator
UNEP Division of Early Warning & Assessment - North America, UNEP RONA
Ashbindu Singh has a strong multidisciplinary background with postgraduate
degrees in physical and natural sciences and a Ph.D. in environmental
science. He has 29 years of work experience: 13 years working with the
Indian Forest Service (1977-1990) in various capacities at local, provincial
and national levels and over 16 years with UNEP in different parts of the
world.
He is intimately involved in analyzing environmental sustainability issues
around the globe. He has over 100 publications including 35 UNEP reports, in
peer reviewed scientific journals and conferences, on various environmental
issues. Findings of his research work are extensive referred by the
scientific community and those involved in the environmental policy
formulations. One of his papers titled "Digital change detection techniques
using remotely sensed data" has made a lasting impact the field of remote
sensing. The team under his direction has produced highly influential
reports on various environmental issues including global forests, threats
to freshwater, coastal vulnerability, linkage between environment and
health, environmental conflicts , transboundary air pollutants ,
biodiversity and UNEP's best seller ever publication, "One Planet Many
People: Atlas of Our Changing Environment." His current interest focuses on
how to bridge the gap between science and policy and applications and
communication of earth observations technologies for environmental
assessment and monitoring.
Ken Smith
Verizon
No bio available.
Véronique Inès Thouvenot, World Health Organization
National Epidemic Preparedness and Response
Presently Scientist in WHO (World Health Organisation) in charge of the
Monitoring and Evaluation System for the International Health Regulation
2005 implementation at national level (192 countries), Ms Thouvenot has
previously been involved as scientific researcher in the European Centre of
Humanitarian Health to design and implement decision support models using
CBR (Case Based Reasoning) systems. She also has dedicated activities at
diverse levels in training policies, management and evaluation including
humanitarian, legal and ICT issues. She is an expert in the areas of Public
Health, e-learning courses, monitoring and evaluation humanitarian action in
crisis and post crisis countries, economical analysis and predictive tools
design intended to decision makers.
Over the last 10 years, she acted as International Expert in the evaluation
of major public health programs in developing countries as for ECHO-
Humanitarian Action in DRC evaluation, (16 NGO visited, global expenditure
2004 : $20.000.000), EMPHIS/EUMEDIS project (distance learning evaluation in
17 Mediterranean countries, 31 partners, global expenditure $5.200.000),
EMISPHER/EUMEDIS project, (telemedicine, e-learning, tele-assitance
evaluation in 10 satellite sites and 15 countries, global expenditure
$5.000.000) and WHO (3 by 5 Initiative, 15 sub-African countries).
With a strong background knowledge and education in theorical and pragmatic
approaches of monitoring and evaluation process, supported by international
experience, Ms Thouvenot is accomplished in meetings, conferences
interventions and scientific publications.
Guy Weets, Deputy Head of Unit
European Commission Directorate General Information Society and Media
Guy Weets, Deputy Head of Unit, European Commission directorate general
information Society and media, currently manages EC R&D efforts in the
fields of ICT for the environment. His engineering carrier started in 1969
at Phillips NV and continued at IBM from 1971 to 1990 where he held several
management positions in the field of science and engineering IT
applications, super-computing, and system network architecture. He joined
the Commission research framework program in 1990 were he has been in charge
successively of e-learning technologies, simulation and visualisation
technologies. Guy was born in Brussels June 1942, he received the
engineering degree (SMEE) from "Ecole Polytechnique" of the University of
Brussels in 1968.
Mark Wood, Honorary General Secretary
Citiens Emergency Alert Services Association International (CEASa)
Mark Wood currently serves as Honorary Secretary General of the Cellular
Emergency Alert Systems Association; (CEASa) a Geneva based Not-for-Profit
foundation advocating the deployment of Cell Broadcast technology in the
service of public safety. He also serves a CTO of the Cellcast Corporation (USA), and as a director of
Cell Broadcast Technologies Limited (UK). Mark has previously served the UN ITU in Geneva as Contributing Editor of
the "ITU Handbook on Emergency Telecommunications 2005", and as contributing
author of the ITU Handbook on disaster communications (2001)
He has also served the United Nations Office for the Co-ordination of
Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) as 'Telecommunications Co-ordination Officer' in
Syria during the 2003 Iraq war. Mark is also an expert advisor to the Working Group on Emergency
Telecommunications, and has served the secretariat of the "Tampere
Convention on the provision of Telecommunications for Disaster Mitigation". In 1998 he received a 'Diplom De Recconnasaince' from the Secretary General of the UN/ITU, Mr. Pekka Terjanne, for his humanitarian work. He writes and lectures on Disaster Telecommunications at the University of
Wisconsin, Madison WI, USA and has also written or co-authored three books on the subject of Disaster Telecommunications. Previously Mark served as senior lecturer in Mobile Network Design at the
Ericsson Technical Training center in Stockholm, Sweden, after many years
working in network design and operations for a major network operator.
Mark currently serves as National Communications project officer to the
British Red Cross, Radio officer for the Surrey Branch of British Red Cross
and chairs the 'Inter Agency Telecommunications Action Plan'. He also serves as a reserve police officer (Special Constable) in the Surrey
Police Force where he also instructs TETRA radio and is a member of the
TETRA users group. Born in Manchester England in 1958, he now lives near London England, with
his wife and three children.
Houlin Zhao, Director
Telecommunication Standardization Bureau (TSB)
International Telecommunication Union (ITU)
Born on 7 March 1950 in Jiangsu (China), Houlin Zhao graduated from Nanjing
University of Posts and Telecommunications (NUPT) in 1975. Between 1979 and
1980, he studied as a visiting scholar in Switzerland. He joined the
University of Essex (United Kingdom) in 1984, where he obtained a Master of
Science degree in Telematics in 1985.From 1975 to 1986, he worked as an
engineer in the Designing Institute of the Chinese Ministry of Posts and
Telecommunications (now known as "Ministry of Information Industry" (MII)),
responsible for projects in the areas of telex, data communication,
non-voice transmission, telephone switching and mobile networks. He took an
active part in his country's experts meetings on national telecommunication
standards. He received a second prize in 1985 for his science and technology
achievements in the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications. In addition,
his work in the Departments of Planning, Capital Construction and Network
Maintenance in the Ministry earned him an engineering project prize for his
outstanding performance and contributions in the planning, designing and
construction of a number of major national network projects. Between 1982
and 1983, he participated in CCITT Study Group meetings. Mr. Zhao joined the
CCITT Secretariat (now TSB) in 1986. Mr. Zhao was elected Director of TSB at
the 1998 Plenipotentiary Conference in Minneapolis (USA), and took office on
1 February 1999. Mr. Zhao was re-elected for a second term (2003-2006) as
Director of TSB at the 2002 Plenipotentiary Conference in Marrakesh
(Morocco).
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