Member Directory
Jo Cavan is Director Strategy, Policy and Engagement at GCHQ, and Paul Killworth is Deputy Director Strategic Policy at GCHQ.
Giles Herdale is an expert in investigatory and intelligence powers and their application in policy and practice. He has extensive experience of working with law enforcement agencies, government, academia and industry on issues such as intelligence-led policing, surveillance, cybercrime and digital forensics. Giles is an associate fellow of the Royal United Services Institute, is co-chair of the Independent Digital Ethics Panel for Policing, and consults, speaks and blogs regularly about embedding data ethics into the development and deployment of new capabilities.
Farhan Janjua is a journalist covering human rights in the age of digital media including digital rights, privacy, and intersectional queer topics. He is also a fellow with Reporters without Borders Germany, a certified digital security trainer and consultant for their digital security Helpdesk. Farhan also edits his award-winning blog VoiceofInternet.com. With work experience spanning over a decade, he previously worked as the Digital Editor at one of Pakistan’s largest English language dailies, Daily Times, Shift In-charge at Pakistani news network Dunya News, Regional Editor Middle East & Af-Pak at Bertelsmann Stiftung’s FutureChallenges.org and contributed to GlobalVoices.org. He holds an M.Phil in Media and Communication Studies and an MA in Political Science.
Félix Tréguer is associate researcher at CNRS and post-doctoral researcher at CERI Sciences Po in Paris. He is also a founding member of the French digital rights advocacy group La Quadrature du Net and holds a PhD in political studies from the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (EHESS). His research blends political history and theory, law as well as media and technology studies to look at the political history of the Internet and computing, power practices like surveillance and censorship, the algorithmic governmentality of the public sphere, and more broadly the digital transformation of the state and of the security field. Since 2013, part of Félix's work focuses on state surveillance and intelligence. For the research project UTIC, he studied the process of legalisation of hitherto illegal surveillance practices by French intelligence, a process which culminated in the adoption of the 2015 Intelligence Act. As an advisor to civil society groups, he has taken part in various advocacy and strategic litigation efforts against surveillance laws before French and European Courts. His more recent work also looks at the role of private companies in surveillance assemblages, either in the context of Internet communications or "Smart City" policing.
Jan-David is former editor of about:intel. Based at Stiftung Neue Verantwortung in Berlin, he is interested in digital rights, democratic intelligence governance, and the intersection of democracy and media in the public sphere.
Before joining Stiftung Neue Verantwortung and building about:intel, he worked as an investigative reporter and editor for the Bangkok Post. Jan-David holds an M.Phil. in International Relations from the University of Oxford and a B.A. in Integrated Social Sciences from Jacobs University Bremen and the University of Edinburgh.
Eric Kind (formerly Eric King) is an independent consultant and expert in surveillance law. He is also a Visiting Lecturer at Queen Mary, University London where he teaches on criminal justice and surveillance technologies. Previously, he was Director of a UK coalition of NGOs advocating for reform of the laws and policies regulating investigatory powers in the wake of the Snowden revelations. For five years he was the Deputy Director at Privacy International where he broadly worked on issues related to signals intelligence and human rights. He holds an LLB from the London School of Economics, where he also occasionally teaches. He is on the advisory council of the Foundation for Information Policy Research, the Open Rights Group and a member of the Independent Digital Ethics Panel for Policing.