Stakeholder Advisory Board
To obtain high-level strategic input and to ensure that stakeholders acquire the knowledge generated by REMIT and that they in turn adopt the policy recommendations and strategies as presented in the scenario testing workshops, REMIT is operating with a Stakeholder Advisory Board. This Board plays an essential role in providing strategic advice to REMIT, identifying officials, as well as giving advice regarding the best measures for dissemination and communication to stakeholders. This provides a greater impact of activities and deliverables. We aim to have a gender-balanced SAB that represents the four different policy subsystems that REMIT focuses on: digital, biotechnology, security and defense, and financial technologies, as well as different territorial domains.
The Stakeholder Advisory Board will help identify and connect to relevant stakeholders, and thus help REMIT achieve its goals. Target stakeholders include diplomats, in particular ambassadors and foreign and defense ministry officials in Brussels and in the capitals of the EU member states, officials in NATO, the European External Action Service (EEAS) and the other EU institutions, politicians, members of the European Parliament and national parliaments working on digital technology, health bio and financial technologies technology as well as security and defense questions, journalists, and policy analysts in think-tanks in Brussels and in the member states. Beyond Europe, REMIT stakeholders will be found in leading international and professional organizations that shape the four policy subsystems.
Members
REMIT’s Stakeholder Advisory Board is still in construction, with some important cornerstones already in place:
Dr Luca Belli is Professor of Digital Governance and Regulation at Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV) Law School, Rio de Janeiro, where he directs the Center for Technology and Society (CTS-FGV) and theCyberBRICS project. Luca is also editor of the International Data Privacy Law Journal, published by Oxford University Press, and Director of the Computers Privacy and Data Protection conference Latin-America (CPDP LatAm). He is currently Board Member of the Global Digital Inclusion Partnership and member of the Steering Committee of the Forum for Information & Democracy.
He is author of more than 50 publications on law and technology and his works have been quoted by numerous media outlets, including The Economist, Financial Times, Forbes, Le Monde, BBC, China Today, The Beijing Review, The Hill, O Globo, Folha de São Paulo, El Pais, and La Stampa. Luca holds a PhD in Public Law from Université Paris Panthéon-Assas and can be found on LinkedIn and on Twitter as @1lucabelli
Dr. Myriam Dunn Cavelty is Senior Scientist and Deputy for Research and Teaching at the Center for Security Studies (CSS) at ETH Zurich. She studied International Relations, History, and International Law at the University of Zurich. Her research and teaching focuses on how digital technologies influence political behaviour and societal values and on how and why specific arrangements to govern the use of digital technologies emerge. In addition to her teaching, research and publishing activities, she advises governments, international institutions and companies in the areas of cyber security, cyber warfare, critical infrastructure protection, risk analysis and strategic foresight.
Anriette Esterhuysen served as the chairperson of the Multistakeholder Advisory Committee of the United Nations Internet Governance Forum (IGF) from 2019 to 2021. She was executive director of the Association for Progressive Communications (APC) from 2000 to 2017 and continues to work with APC as Senior Advisor on Internet Governance and convenes the annual African School on Internet Governance, a project of APC, Research ICT Africa at the University of Cape Town, and the African Union Commission. She serves on the governing bodies of the IGF Support Association, Connect Humanity, Digital Empowerment Foundation, the South African Tertiary Education Network (TENET) and is a member of the Aspen Institute’s Global Cyber Group. Anriette was inducted into the Internet Hall of Fame as a Global Connecter in 2013 for her work in extending internet connectivity in Africa and received the Electronic Frontier Foundation Pioneer Award in 2015 for her work on defending and promoting human rights online.
Toomas Hendrik Ilves served as president of Estonia from 2006-16. Ilves is renowned for making Estonia one of the most digitally advanced nations through innovative policies that invested heavily in the future. Since leaving office Ilves spent three and a half years as a distinguished visiting fellow at Stanford University and the Center for Advance Study in the Behavioral Sciences while lecturing all over the world on the digitization of governance and public services. Most recently he is also advising the WHO-Europe on technological solutions to the COVID-17 pandemic and cross-border health more broadly while teaching at Tartu University in Estonia.
John Shimkus is a West Point graduate and a retired Lieutenant Colonel in the USAR. He served as a member of Congress for twenty four years from Southern Illinois. He is married to Karen and has three adult sons.
Mariarosaria Taddeo is Professor in Digital Ethics and Defence Technologies at the University of Oxford, Programme Director at the Oxford Internet Institute and holds a fellowship at the Alan Turing Institute. Her focus is on the ethical governance of digital technologies, including AI in national defense and cybersecurity. Taddeo has published over 150 articles in top-tier journals. Additionally, she has held influential roles in various projects and think tanks, advising on cybersecurity policies for organizations like NATO. She also serves as editor-in-chief of Minds & Machines (SpringerNature). Taddeo has received numerous accolades for her work, including the World Technology Award for Ethics and recognition as one of the top women in technology by ComputerWeekly.
Nicholas (Nick) works on the intersection of health and security studies, with a focus on East Asia, principally China. His current research centers on the intersection of pandemic responses and trust in East and Southeast Asia. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society for Public Health (FRSPH), a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (SFHEA), and a Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society (FRAS) of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
Chris Weible is a professor at the University of Colorado Denver School of Public Affairs. His research and teaching center on policy process theories and methods, democracy, and environmental policy. He is the Co-Founder and Co-Director of the Center for Policy and Democracy (CPD) and Co-Editor of Policy & Politics.