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	Wendy Currie Wendy Currie is a professor of information systems at the Warwick Business School (WBS). Before that she was a professor in information systems at Brunel and Sheffield universities. She is also the principal investigator of EPSRC and ESRC (Paccit/Link) funded research into e-business models and emerging technologies. She currently serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Information Technology, the Journal of Strategic Information Systems, the Journal of Change Management and the Journal of Enterprise Information Management. She has also been an associate editor for Management Information Systems Quarterly (MISQ) and the European Journal of Information Systems and has also served on the editorial boards for special issues in MISQ and Information Systems Research. She served as European, Middle East and Africa representative for the Association for Information Systems, and is currently joint conference chair for the International Conference on Information Systems to be held in Arizona in 2009. Her research is published in the information systems and management journals and she works with several 'blue chip' companies on various research projects. She is currently working with the UK National Health Service and the Compliance Institute on ICT adoption and diffusion. Her current research interests cover sociological theories in information systems, IT-enabled transformation in healthcare, e-business models (service oriented architectures) and IT and compliance in financial services She holds a BSc from Kingston and a PhD from Henley Brunel.
	Dan Hamilton Dr. Hamilton is the Richard von Weizsäcker professor and director of the center for transatlantic relations at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), Johns Hopkins University. He also serves as executive director of the American consortium for EU studies, designated by the European Commission as the EU center of excellence in Washington, DC. He is the host of The Washington Post/Newsweek International's online discussion feature Next Europe and is a consultant to Microsoft Corporation. He leads international policy work for the Johns Hopkins-led center for the study of high consequence event preparedness and response (PACER), named as one of 5 US national centers of excellence by the US department of homeland security. He has held a variety of senior positions in the US Department of State, including deputy assistant secretary for European affairs, responsible for NATO, OSCE and transatlantic security issues; US special coordinator for Southeast European stabilization; associate director of the policy planning staff; director for policy in the bureau of European affairs; and senior policy advisor to the US ambassador and US embassy in Germany. In 2008 he served as the first Robert Bosch Foundation senior diplomatic fellow in the German foreign office. He chairs the selection committee for the Robert Bosch Stiftung fellows program bringing young American professionals to Germany. He is a member of the academic board of the Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP) in Berlin; member of the board of the Körber Foundation's USABLE awards program; member of the board of advisors to the European-American business council and the center for European policy analysis; editorial board member for the council on European studies; the journal Biosecurity and Bioterrorism; and the Danish Foreign Policy Yearbook. He has also taught graduate courses in US foreign policy and US-European relations at the Hertie School of Governance in Berlin, the University of Innsbruck and the Free University of Berlin. From 1990-1993 he was senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and from 1982-1990 deputy director of the Aspen Institute Berlin. In the summer months he serves as dean of Waldsee German language village, the oldest and largest immersion program in North America for young people, sponsored by Concordia College in Minnesota. He is the author of numerous books on transatlantic relations. He holds the State Department's Superior Honor Award. He has a PhD and MA with distinction from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and an honorary doctorate from Concordia College. He received his undergraduate degree from Georgetown University.
	Zoran Stancic Zoran Stancic is the deputy director-general for information society and media directorate at the European Commission. Born in 1962, he started his professional career as a research assistant at the department of archaeology at the University of Ljubljana. In 1994 he was employed as the head of the spatial information centre of the scientific research centre of the Slovenian academy of sciences and arts and associate professor at the department of geodesy. From 1990 until 2000 he was a research fellow or visiting professor at various universities across the world. He has published seven scientific books and a number of scientific papers on quantitative methods in archaeology and remote sensing. From 1990 to 2000 he was deputy director of the scientific research centre of the Slovenian academy of sciences and arts. From the year 2000 to 2004 he was state secretary for science at the ministry of education, science and sport in Slovenia. In 2004 he became deputy director-general for research at the European commission. He graduated with a BSc degree in geodetic engineering from the University of Ljubljana.
	Bart Gordon Bart Gordon is the chairman of the house of science and technology committee and a senior member of the energy and commerce committee of the House of Representatives of the United States. Born in 1949, he became active in Democratic politics early on. He was briefly the executive director of the Tennessee Democratic Party in 1979 and state party chairman from 1981 to 1983. He was first elected to Congress in 1984 to represent Middle Tennessee. He has been continuously re-elected ever since. He graduated from Middle Tennessee State University in 1971 with honours and from the University of Tennessee College of Law in Knoxville in 1973. From 1974 to 1983 he practised law in Murfreesboro and worked for the Tennessee state Democratic Party.
	Moderators Tim King, editor, European Voice Morton Kondracke, associate editor, Roll Call