Member Directory

Amir serves a researcher in the Israel Democracy Institute, where he conducts ongoing policy-driven research into comparative surveillance law, AI regulation and other topics pertaining to law and technology. Amir is a research fellow in the Federmann Cyber Security Research Center – Cyber Law Program the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Amir has published two books on online surveillance laws “Regulation of Online Surveillance in Israeli Law and Comparative Law” (2019) and “Oversight of Online Surveillance in Israel” (2020), both in Hebrew.

Prof. dr. J.J. Oerlemans is an endowed professor in Intelligence and Law at Utrecht University. The chair is made available by the Dutch Review Committee on Intelligence and Security Services (CTIVD), where he also works a senior researcher.

Dr. Estelle De Marco is a jurist specialising in legal and ethical aspects related to ICT, cybersecurity and the action against crime, covering fundamental rights and personal data protection, including impact and risk assessment. She is the founder and Director of Inthemis, a firm specialised in ICT legal ethics and data protection compliance, in which she assists various organisations in their compliance efforts and regularly leads legal tasks and work-packages in national or European research projects. In parallel, she is the founder and administrator of jrgpd.fr and acts as an expert on cybercrime, electronic evidence and fundamental rights protection for the Council of Europe.

She is also lecturer at three higher education establishments where she teaches legal ethics and personal data protection, legal aspects of cybersecurity and cybercrime and liability of Internet stakeholders. She holds a Ph.D. in private law and criminal sciences and a Master II degree in ICT law.

Kenneth Propp is a non-resident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Europe Center. He teaches European Union Law at Georgetown University Law Center, and is a senior research fellow at the Cross-Border Data Forum. From 2011-15, he served as Legal Counselor at the U.S. Mission to the European Union in Brussels, Belgium.

Jacques Follorou is a French journalist. He graduated in 1991 from the Journalist Training Center (CFJ), in Paris. He started his career in 1993 working freelance for the weekly Le Canard enchaîné. In 1996, he was hired by the daily Le Monde and worked mostly on legal cases, in particular those related to the financing of political parties and corruption. In 1998, he also covered Corsican terrorism and mafia stories. After the 09/11 attacks in the United States in 2001, he extended his investigative work to the financing of terrorism and more broadly to financial investigations. In 2008, he joined the international desk where he is in charge of Afghanistan and Pakistan, terrorism and intelligence issues.

In 2013, he started working on the material provided by Edward Snowden thanks to an exclusive contact, in France, to the american activist lawyer Glenn Greenwald to whom the former contractor of the National Security Agency (NSA) entrusted his archives. It was the beginning of a direct dialogue with the American whistleblower and ongoing investigations into the French government's surveillance system. Since then, Jacques Follorou has continued his investigations into the intelligence world by contributing, in particular, to the revelations, in 2018 and 2019, of the interference of Russian espionage in Europe. He dedicates a part his work trying to point out the weaknesses of the French legal framework for intelligence.

Jacques Follorou is the author of several books, including, in 2018, "L’Etat secret" (The Secret State, Democracy Undermined, Fayard), which comprises an exclusive interview with Edward Snowden. Jacques Follorou considers security and freedom as not mutually exclusive. On the contrary, freedom and debate contribute to security.