Biographies

Dr. Tamyko Ysa
Tamyko holds a Ph. D. in political science and a Master in Public Administration and Public Policy. She is a lecturer at the Institute of Public Governance and Management of ESADE in Spain. She has acted as consultant to various public administrations. The institutions for which she has worked include several departments of the Autonomous Government of Catalonia, the Barcelona City Council and County Council, and a large number of local governments and public companies. She is the Principal Researcher of the Research Group for Leadership and Innovation in Public Management (GLIGP).

Tamyko Ysa

Dr. Mila Gascó
Mila holds a MBA and a Ph. D. in public policy evaluation. She is a researcher at the Institute of Public Governance and Management of ESADE in Spain. She also has a lot of consulting experience on the information and knowledge society. For seven years, she was a senior analyst at the International Institute on Governance of Catalonia. She has a wide teaching experience as well as a broad researching experience. She has taken part in numerous national and international seminars, she has published both in Spanish and English and she has supervised some Ph. D thesis.

Mila Gascó

Alex Pèlach Pàniker
Alex is Director-general of Processes and Electronic Administration. In 1983, when he finished his studies in Computing, he joined a local company in software development. In the following years, he reached higher quotas of responsibility until arrived at the technical direction of an important multinational consulting company. In 2011 he joined the Catalan Administration, where he is responsible for the promotion of administrative simplification and electronic administration. He is a member in several committees and boards dealing with issues of data protection, local administration, TIC policies, and e-governance policies

Alex Pèlach Pàniker

Miguel A. Amutio
Miguel graduated in Computer Science at Deusto University (Bilbao) in 1988. He joined the Ministry of Public Administrations in 1995. CISA, CISM, CRISC. Currently he is Head of Area within the DG Administrative Modernization, Procedures and Promotion of eGovernment in the Ministry of Finance and Public Administrations of Spain. He coordinates the development of the National Interoperability Framework (Royal Decree 4/2010), and its Technical Interoperability Regulations, and of the National Security Framework (Royal Decree 3/2010) of Spain. He is member of the Committee of the ISA Programme. He has been member of the managing committees of the EU Programmes IDA II (1999-2004) and IDABC (2005-2009). He is National Coordinator of Spain for the transeuropean network sTESTA. He is president of AENOR AEN GET 13 Risk Management. He is member of AENOR CTN71/SC 27; of the management committee of the Arrangement on the Recognition of Common Criteria Certificates In the field of Information Technology Security (CCRA); of the OECD WPISP (Working Party of Security and Privacy); the Advisory Committee of CENATIC. His domains of expertise include: Cross border eGovernment services, eGovernment Interoperability, eGovernment IT security, open standards, open source software.

Miguel A. Amutio

Zaigham Mahmood

Zaigham is a Principal Researcher and Reader in Applied Computing in the School of Computing and Mathematics, University of Derby, UK. He has an MSc in Mathematics, an MSc in Computer Science and a PhD in Modeling of Phase Equilibria. He is also a Chartered Engineer and a Chartered Information Technology Professional. Zaigham has in excess of 50 publications in proceedings of international conferences and journals as well as chapters in books. He is also Editor-in-Chief of Journal of E-Government Studies and Best Practices. His research interests are in the areas of software engineering, project management, enterprise computing and e-government.

Zaigham Mahmood

Bruno de Vuyst
Bruno teaches in Antwerp, Barcelona, Brussels and Valencia. He is a deputy judge in the Brussels commercial tribunal and of counsel to a Brussels law firm; in addition he is an elected member of the general assembly of Flemish Bar Associations, representing the Brussels Bar, and a member of the scientific committee of the Institute for judicial training. He is secretary-general of the spin-off fund of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel and a board member of several spin-offs in the life sciences and new materials. He has published books and articles on IP and financial law; he is also a playwright and novelist.

Bruno de Vuyst

Carlos E. Jiménez
Carlos holds a MSc on the Information Society, a Postgraduate diploma on Information Systems Management and a Computer Engineering degree. Nowadays he works at the e-justice project of the Justice Department of the Autonomous Government of Catalonia, Spain. His main interests include information systems, e-governance or interoperability and, in these areas, he has carried out international training and consulting work for organizations such as the CLAD, the Government of Brazil, the European Commission, the Organization of American States, or the Pompeu Fabra University, in Spain. He belongs to relevant technology associations as the ACM or IEEE Technology Management Council. He is the chairman of the Spanish chapter of the latter.

Carlos E. Jiménez

Dr Mary Griffiths
Mary is an Associate Professor in the Discipline of Media at the University of Adelaide. She writes on media and e-democracy, e-learning, media ethics, and digital creative praxis. Recently completed:  a co-designed comparative pilot study, ‘Young People’s Political Participation (Adelaide and Seoul)’. Currently she teaches Media Democracies and E-Participation, using a role-play on digital information flows. The e-SIM is located in a fictional polity, Incognita, which bears more than a passing resemblance to Australia at the time of Gov 2.0, and wikileaks.

Mary Griffiths

Dr Carl Adams
Carl is a Principal Lecturer and Researcher in the School of Computing, University of Portsmouth, UK. He has over a decade of professional experience in the computer industry as a Software Engineer and consultant before going into academia. He is an active researcher with interests in e/m-commerce, e/m-government, e/m-payment systems and mobile information systems. He has current PhD students in e/m-commerce and e/m-government. He has published over 80 referred research papers, several book chapters and one book. His PhD is from Southampton University, UK, in the field of Information Systems.

Carl Adams

Dr. Natasa Pomazalova

Natasa is an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Economics and Management, University of Defence, Czech Republic. Her main research areas are e-government applications, coherence e-public procurement and decision-making in complexity, its relationships to governance and educational practice. Her research interest  includes knowledge sharing, innovation management, organizational change and performance, social capital and the social impact of Web 2.0. Natasa is on the editorial board of academic journals and has acted as reviewer and adviser for scientific conferences and journals. She is  active member of several national and international research projects and has been affiliate member of OSCE project. 

Natasa Pomazalova

Pat Molan

Pat is a Principal Officer with the Irish Revenue Commissioners and Limerick District Manager.  Pat has worked with Revenue for almost thirty years having worked in a number of government departments previously.  Pat has been centrally involved in the delivery of new and innovative IT solutions that have helped transform the Irish Revenue Commissioners into an organisation that is internationally regarded as the flagship for e-Government in the Irish Public Service. eMail: pmolan@revenue.ie

Pat Molan

Tom Collins
Tom lectures in International Tax and Advanced Tax in the B.A. (Hons.) in Applied Taxation and in Wealth Management for the MSc (Computational Finance) at the National Centre for Taxation Studies, University of Limerick. Tom has over 25 years experience with Big-4 tax practices in Ireland and New Zealand. Prior to joining the University of Limerick, Tom was a Tax Director with Deloitte specialising in international tax, real estate and wealth management. Tom is NCTS director since September 2009. Contact Tom via email: tom.collins@ul.ie

Tom Collins

Updated 15 June 2012