EASTWEST INSTITUTE - Key Persons
Dr. Greg Austin, who previously served as Vice President for the Worldwide Security Initiative, including a leadership role in the institute's work on cybersecurity, is now a Professorial Fellow. Greg has a 30-year career in international affairs, including senior posts in academia and government.
He has also held senior posts at the International Crisis Group and the Foreign Policy Centre London.
Greg is the author of several highly reviewed books on international security, especially on Asia. His latest book is Cyber Policy in China (Cambridge: policy 2014). In 2003-04, he led a major review for the United Kingdom Cabinet Office on UK conflict prevention policies. He has several post-graduate qualifications in international relations, including a PhD. He is a Visiting Professor at the Australian Defence Force Academy in the University of New South Wales.
Dr. Kamlesh Bajaj has four decades of experience in ICT, spanning wide areas that include cybersecurity, cyber crime, privacy protection, public key infrastructure and e-governance, among others. Dr. Bajaj was the Founder CEO of Data Security Council of India - an industry initiative in cybersecurity and data privacy. He was the Founder Director of CERT-In, Global Head of Information Risk Management Consulting Practice, Tata Consultancy Services and Dy DG of National Informatics Centre.
Dr. Bajaj has published and lectured extensively on cybersecurity and cyber crime, privacy and data protection, Internet governance, surveillance, encryption, e-commerce, digital signatures and cyber laws in national and international journals and conferences, and national media. He has contributed policy papers in these fields for public advocacy, and for enhancing cybersecurity through public private partnership.
Dr. Bajaj has served on various Government Committees on cyber security, privacy and IT, and contributes to the activities of global bodies like OECD and EWI.
Dr. Bajaj is a Distinguished Fellow, EastWest Institute - a global think tank. He holds a Ph.D. in Physics from McMaster University, Canada, and a Masters degree from the University of Delhi. He is a Fellow at the National Academy of Sciences (FNASc) and a Fellow at the Institution of Electronics and Telecom Engineers (FIETE).
Job Titles:
- Assistant Director for the FBI 's Office of Congressional Affairs
- Assistant Director, Office of Congressional Affairs, Federal Bureau of Investigation ( FBI )
In February 2017, FBI Director James Comey appointed Gregory A. Brower as the assistant director for the FBI's Office of Congressional Affairs (OCA). Most recently, Mr. Brower served as deputy general counsel.
Mr. Brower entered on duty with the FBI in February 2016. He previously served in the Department of Justice as U.S. Attorney for the District of Nevada and as Legislative Counsel in the Executive Office for U.S. Attorneys.
His more than two decades of professional experience include previous service in the U.S. Government Printing Office as inspector general and general counsel, as well as service on the staffs of two U.S. Senators. Mr. Brower also has significant experience as a first-chair trial and appellate lawyer in private practice.
While in private practice in his home state of Nevada, Mr. Brower represented the Reno area in five regular sessions of the Nevada Legislature, serving as chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee during his final session.
Mr. Brower has also served as an adjunct professor of law, teaching national security law and trial advocacy at the William S. Boyd School of Law at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
He is a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley and The George Washington University Law School.
Before attending law school, Mr. Brower served in the U.S. Navy as a Surface Warfare Officer.
Job Titles:
- Project Leader, Joint Research Centre, European Commission
Laurent Beslay is a European Commission Official at DG Joint Research Centre, within the Directorate E on Space, Security and Migration since September 2011 and works as Scientific Project Leader on Law enforcement technologies and citizen. He manages research activities related to the fight against cybercrime and organised crime, biometric systems and privacy safeguards. From 2004 until September 2011, he worked as coordinator on Security and Technology and scientific advisor of the European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) in Brussels. He also previously worked, for six years, for the JRC - Institute for Prospective Technological Studies (IPTS) as a Ph.D. candidate (Electronic surveillance: benefits and risks for the EU) and as a project officer in the field of cybersecurity.
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- Senior Manager in Cyber Risk Services With Deloitte
- Senior Manager, Cyber Risk, Deloitte
Tom Alrich is a Senior Manager in Cyber Risk Services with Deloitte. He has worked in cyber security for 17 years, and has followed and written about the NERC CIP cyber security standards for the electric power industry since 2008. Tom works with energy industry clients of Deloitte Advisory, and writes a popular blog on developments in NERC CIP. He lives in Evanston, Illinois and has an Economics degree from the University of Chicago.