About the Authors
Aaron Shull is the managing director and general counsel at CIGI. He is a senior legal executive and is recognized as a leading expert on complex issues at the intersection of public policy, emerging technology, cybersecurity, privacy and data protection.
Andre Boysen is a CIGI senior fellow and chief identity officer at SecureKey. Recognized as a global leader on identity, privacy, digital transformation and blockchain, Andre is also a regular speaker, contributing author and media commentator.
Stephanie Carvin is an associate professor of international relations at the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs, Carleton University. From 2012 to 2015, she was a national security analyst with the Government of Canada.
Neil Desai is a CIGI senior fellow and an executive in residence with the Rogers Cybersecure Catalyst.
Robert (Bob) Fay is a CIGI senior fellow and an expert in the field of digital economy research.
Melissa Hathaway is president of Hathaway Global Strategies LLC and a member of CIGI’s Board of Directors.
Byron Holland is president and CEO of the Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA), which manages the .ca top-level domain (TLD) on behalf of Canadians.
Eric Jardine is a CIGI fellow and an assistant professor of political science at Virginia Tech. Eric researches the uses and abuses of the dark web, measuring trends in cybersecurity, how people adapt to changing risk perceptions when using new security technologies, and the politics surrounding anonymity-granting technologies and encryption.
Elizabeth F. Judge is professor of law and a member of the Centre for Law, Technology and Society at the Faculty of Law at the University of Ottawa, where she specializes in intersections of law, technology and policy.
Christian Leuprecht is the Class of 1965 Professor in Leadership in the Department of Political Science and Economics at the Royal Military College of Canada.
David Lyon is director of the Surveillance Studies Centre, and professor of sociology and professor of law at Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario. Educated at the University of Bradford in the United Kingdom, David has been studying surveillance since the mid-1980s. Credited with spearheading the field of surveillance studies, he has produced a steady stream of books and articles.
Tyson Macaulay is a veteran of the cybersecurity industry with more than 25 years of technical and international management experience. As chief product officer at InfoSec Global, Tyson sets direction and strategy for all products, including full accountability for engineering and services, research and development, marketing and customer satisfaction.
Michael Mason is the VP of product on the Aion Project, driving the product road map for public use of their open-source blockchain protocol. He has spent his career building technology products in fintech and gaming for companies such as Wave, The New York Times and Mattel.
Michele Mosca is an award-winning researcher in cryptography and quantum computing, and has initiated numerous multidisciplinary collaborations that helped create the quantum-safe opportunity for Canada. He started and grew the quantum computing effort at the University of Waterloo, eventually co-founding the Institute for Quantum Computing.
Bill Munson is director, research and policy analysis at Quantum-Safe Canada.
David Mussington is professor of the practice and director, Center for Public Policy and Private Enterprise, University of Maryland, College Park, and a former senior fellow at CIGI.
Michael Pal is an associate professor in the Faculty of Law at the University of Ottawa, where he is the director of the Public Law Group. He specializes in the comparative law of democracy and comparative constitutional law. He has advised governments at all levels on election and constitutional law.
Matthew Spoke is the founder of the Aion Foundation, an open-source non-profit focused on building the underlying infrastructure required by developers to build censorship resistant, decentralized applications that put users first. He is also the founder and director of the Blockchain Technology Coalition of Canada, where he lends his time to help reduce regulatory uncertainty and protect consumers.
Wally Trenholm is a senior fellow with CIGI, where he contributes his expertise on artificial intelligence, data governance and international security.
Paul Vallée is a CIGI senior fellow and the founder and CEO of Tehama.
Christopher S. Yoo is a CIGI senior fellow and the John H. Chestnut Professor of Law, Communication, and Computer Information Science and the founding director of the Center for Technology, Innovation and Competition at the University of Pennsylvania.
