Alden F. Abbott
Alden F. Abbott is Associate Director for Policy and Coordination in the Federal Trade Commission’s(FTC) Bureau of Competition. He directs the FTC office charged with evaluating potential antitrust cases,coordinating antitrust policy within the Bureau of Competition, and helping develop antitrust policyinitiatives at the FTC. Prior to joining the FTC in June 2001, Mr. Abbott served in a variety of senior government positions at the Department of Commerce (DOC) and the Department of Justice (includingActing General Counsel, DOC, January – May 2001); as an associate with the Washington, D.C. law firmof Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver, & Kampelman; and as an attorney-advisor in the Office of Policy Planning,FTC. Mr. Abbott has written and lectured extensively on antitrust, intellectual property law, communicationslaw, international trade law, and regulation. He has also been an Adjunct Professor of Law at GeorgeMason University Law School since 1990. Mr. Abbott was selected as a Wasserstein Public Interest Fellowat Harvard Law School for the 2002-2003 academic year. Mr. Abbott holds an M.A. in Economics fromGeorgetown University, a J.D. from Harvard Law School, and a B.A. from the University of Virginia (PhiBeta Kappa, junior year). He is admitted to the Bars of the District of Columbia and the U.S. SupremeCourt, is a member of the American Bar Association’s Antitrust Section, and is listed in Who’s Who inAmerica.
Parry Aftab
Parry Aftab is an Internet privacy and security lawyer. She is also the author of The Parent’s Guide toProtecting Your Children in Cyberspace, which is the leading book for parents worldwide on online safety.A substantial portion of her time is devoted to Internet issues involving children — from equitable access, to privacy, to safety, to helping develop quality and reliable content for children. She also acts as a consultantto most of the children’s Internet industry, helping them comply with the law, while improving the Internetexperience for children. As Executive Director of WiredSafety.org, the oldest and largest online safetyand educational program in cyberspace, Ms. Aftab helps prevent and assist law enforcement agencies ininvestigating cybercrime. Ms. Aftab also works closely with law enforcement around the world to preventcybercrimes and police the Internet and is part of the Home Office Cybercrime Task Force in the UK.
J. Gary Augustson
J. Gary Augustson is the Vice Provost for Information Technology at The Pennsylvania State University,which serves more than 83,000 students at 24 campuses throughout the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. AsPenn State’s Chief Information Officer, Mr. Augustson is responsible for the University telecommunicationsand computing activities. His focus has been on facilitating and creating learning communities andsupporting top-flight research which has required the construction of an information technologyinfrastructure that flexibly supports Penn State’s varied academic and administrative activities. Mr.Augustson has played a key role in making Penn State a national leader in applying information technologyto the challenges faced by higher education. He has been a leader in higher education’s national networkingefforts and has played a key role in shaping higher education’s position on national information technology policy issues. He chaired the Internet2 Steering Committee, the group that launched the Internet2 projectand created the University Corporation for Advanced Internet Development (UCAID). In 2001, he wasawarded Educause’s Excellence in Leadership Award for his extraordinary effectiveness, influence,statesmanship, and lifetime achievement both at Penn State and in the broader higher education community.Mr. Augustson holds a Master of Science from the University of Maryland in computer science and aBachelor of Science in mathematics from the University of Michigan.
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Stanley M. Besen
Stanley M. Besen is a Vice President at Charles River Associates, Washington, D.C.. Dr. Besen has servedas Co-editor, RAND Journal of Economics (1985-88); Senior Economist, RAND Corporation (1980-92);a member of the Office of Technology Assessment Advisory Panels on Communications Systems for anInformation Age (1986-88) and Intellectual Property Rights in an Age of Electronics and Information(1984-85); and an Expert, World Intellectual Property Organization/UNESCO Meeting on UnauthorizedPrivate Copying of Recordings, Broadcasts and Printed Matter, 1984. He currently serves as a member of the Editorial Board of Economics of Innovation and New Technology and of The National AcademiesComputer Science and Telecommunications Board Committee on Internet Searching and the Domain NameSystem. Dr. Besen has taught at Rice University (1965-1980) where he was the Allyn M. and Gladys R.Cline Professor of Economics and Finance (1979-1980), Columbia University (1988-1989) where he wasthe Visiting Henley Professor of Law and Business, and the Georgetown University Law Center (1990-1991) where he was Visiting Professor of Law and Economics. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from YaleUniversity (1964).
Jerald Block
Prior to becoming a physician, Jerald Block was trained as an industrial engineer and worked for Arthur AndersEn as a system’s analyst. He left business consulting to go to medical school and now works in private practice as a psychiatrist. He is a Diplomate of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology. Dr.Block also teaches medical students at Oregon Health Sciences University and is an Advanced Candidateat the Oregon Psychoanalytic Institute. He was motivated to create SmartGuard Software after treatingnumerous individuals with computer-related illnesses and finding a severe lack of technological solutions.
Mark Bohannon
Mark Bohannon is the General Counsel and Senior Vice President, Public Policy for the Software &Information Industry Association (SIIA). SIIA represents more than 1,000 companies in 33 countries aroundthe world that develop and market software and digital content for business, education, consumers, and theInternet. In this position, Mr. Bohannon is responsible for the legal and public policy agenda of the principaltrade association of the digital code and content industry. His work in areas such as intellectual property,e-commerce, and the Internet, includes not only North America, but also Europe and the Pacific Rim.Prior to joining SIIA, Mr. Bohannon was a senior official of the U.S. Department of Commerce wherehe served as Chief Counsel for Technology and Counsellor to the Under Secretary. During his tenure, hewas integrally involved in a wide range of technology development, intellectual property, trade, globallegal framework, ecommerce, and domain name policy areas. Mr. Bohannon was a member of the U.S.Delegation to the proposed Hague Convention, a Vice-Chair of the OECD Working Party on InformationSecurity and Privacy, and the U.S. Delegation to the UN Committee on International Trade Law, as wellas a leader in the transition of the domain name system to the private sector and in the transatlantic agendaaffecting e-commerce. A native of Austin, Texas, Mark Bohannon is a graduate of the Edmund A. WalshSchool of Foreign Service at Georgetown University and of the George Washington University Law Schoolin Washington, D.C.
Michael Bracy
Michael Bracy is a partner in the government affairs firm Bracy Tucker Brown. He also co-founded theFuture of Music Coalition and currently serves as a board member and Policy Director and co-ownsMisra, an independent record label based in Austin, Texas. Michael is known for his policy work in frontof Congress and the FCC, including media consolidation, radio regulation (including Low Power FM),and ensuring public interest principles are at the heart of the legal structures that will help dictate newtechnological frameworks. Michael is a recognized public advocate both for the music community and
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for the need for increased citizen participation in the policy process. He speaks often on these issues atconferences and in the media, including CNN, MSNBC, New York Times, Billboard and elsewhere.
David O. Carson
David O. Carson is General Counsel of the U.S. Copyright Office at the Library of Congress in Washington,D.C. As General Counsel, Mr. Carson is a principal legal officer of the Office, with responsibility for the Office’s regulatory activities (including administration of the copyright statutory licenses), litigation,administration of the copyright law, and providing liaison on legal and policy matters between the Officeand Congress, the Department of Justice and other agencies of Government, the courts, the legal community,and other interests affected by the copyright law. Prior to joining the Copyright Office in 1997, he was in private practice, representing publishers, authors, motion picture and television production companies,recording artists, composers, record companies, computer software publishers, and others in areas includingcopyrights, trademarks, defamation, rights of privacy and publicity, and publishing and entertainmentcontracts. He has written articles and lectured on issues in these fields of law. He is a former trustee of theCopyright Society of the USA, a former director of the American Intellectual Property Law Associationand former chair of its Committee on Copyright Law. He is a graduate of Harvard Law School and received bachelor of arts and master of arts degrees in history at Stanford University.
Andrew Chin
Andrew Chin has a B.S. from the University of Texas and a D.Phil. from the University of Oxford, both inmathematics, and a J.D. from Yale Law School. Between 1991 and 1995, he taught mathematics at TexasA&M University, computer science at King’s College, University of London, and public policy at theUniversity of Texas at Austin. After graduating law school in 1998, he clerked for Judge Henry H. Kennedy,Jr. of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, and assisted Judge Thomas PenfieldJackson and his law clerks in the drafting of the findings of fact in United States v. Microsoft Corporation.Chin then practiced in the corporate and intellectual property departments in the Washington, D.C. office of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, LLP. Since 2001, Chin has been on the faculty of the University of North Carolina School of Law, where he teaches antitrust, intellectual property, and patent law.
Michelle K. Collins
Michelle Collins is the Director of the Exploited Child Unit (ECU) at the National Center for Missing& Exploited Children (NCMEC) in Alexandria, Virginia. She directly oversees the CyberTipline, thecongressionally mandated recipient of reports on child sexual exploitation for the public and all U.S. basedInternet Service Providers. In NCMEC’s effort to further assist the law enforcement community, Ms. Collinsspearheaded the creation of the Child Victim Identification Program and worked with programmers tocreate the Child Recognition & Identification System (CRIS). This program allows NCMEC to locate andidentify unknown child victims featured in sexually abusive images as well as assist with child pornography prosecutions across the country. Her extensive technical assistance to law enforcement during OperationHamlet resulted in her being awarded the U.S. Customs Commissioner’s Unit Citation. In addition, sheassisted in the coordination of twenty-five international law enforcement agencies for Operation WebSweep,a worldwide child pornography sting conducted by the New Jersey Division of Criminal Justice. Ms.Collins received a B.A. in Psychology from George Mason University and an M.A. in Criminology from theUniversity of Maryland at College Park.
John T. Delacourt
John Delacourt is currently Chief Antitrust Counsel in the Federal Trade Commission’s Office of PolicyPlanning. Prior to assuming that position, he served as the office’s Assistant Director. During his tenurewith the Office of Policy Planning, John has served as a member of both the Commission’s State Actionand Noerr-Pennington Task Forces. He has also played a substantial role in the Commission’s e-commerce
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