ALAN F. WESTIN
>Dr. Alan F. Westin is Professor of Public Law and Government Emeritus at Columbia University; Founder of Privacy & American Business (P&AB), a non-profit think tank that provides expert analysis on business-privacy issues; Publisher of Privacy & American Business; and President of the Center for Social & Legal Research.
Professor Westin's major books on privacy -- Privacy and Freedom (1967) and Databanks in a Free Society (1972) -- were pioneering works that prompted U.S. privacy legislation and helped launch global privacy movements in many democratic nations in the 1960's and 70's.
In 2005, Dr. Westin received the Privacy Leadership Award of the International Association of Privacy Professionals, the leading organization for business, government, and non-profit privacy officers.
Over the past forty years, Dr. Westin has been a member of U.S. federal and state government privacy commissions and an expert witness before legislative committees and regulatory agencies. He has been a privacy consultant to many U.S. federal, state, and local government agencies and government research foundations and has helped write privacy codes for over one hundred companies, including IBM, American Express, Citicorp, Intel, Prudential, A.T.&T., News Corporation, VISA, and Merck.
He has keynoted privacy conferences around the world, from Canada to England, France, the Netherlands, Germany, Austria, Italy, Sweden, Japan and Hong Kong.
Since 1978, he has been the academic advisor to Harris Interactive for more than 60 national surveys of public and leadership attitudes toward consumer, employee, and citizen privacy issues, in the United States, Canada, Germany, Britain and Japan.
LANCE J. HOFFMAN
Lance J. Hoffman is Distinguished Research Professor of Computer Science at The George Washington University in Washington, D. C., and the author or editor of numerous articles and five books on computer security and privacy. His teaching innovations include multidisciplinary courses on electronic commerce and network security and the development of a portable educational network for teaching computer security. He also directs the Defense Department and National Science Foundation computer security scholarship programs at GW.
A Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery, Dr. Hoffman has served on a number of Advisory Committees including those of the Center for Democracy and Technology, IBM, the Federal Trade Commission, and the ACM Conference on Computers, Freedom, and Privacy. He currently serves on the Department of Homeland Security Advisory Committee on Data Privacy and Integrity, and occasionally testifies before Congress on security and privacy-related issues (see www.seas.gwu.edu/~lanceh/testimony.html).
Dr. Hoffman received his B. S. in mathematics from Carnegie Mellon University and his M. S. and Ph. D. from Stanford University in computer science.