The Program Committee

professor Matthew warren, director rmit university, centre for cyber security research and innovation (CCSRI)

Professor Priyan Mendis (CONVENOR)

Department of Infrastructure Engineering
University of Melbourne
E: pamendis@unimelb.edu.au

Professor Priyan Mendis has received international recognition for his work in protective and structural engineering and security. Priyan has successfully undertaken commissions for clients within the public and private sectors both nationally and internationally. He has lectured in structural engineering and protective engineering at the University Melbourne, Australia for more than 20 years and attached to the Dept of Infrastructure Engineering. He has been invited to lecture to both researchers and practising engineers on various topics related to protective technology of structures, both in Australia and overseas.

Harvey Rishikof, Director of Policy and Cyber Security Research and Visiting Research Professor, University of Maryland (Applied Research Laboratory For Intelligence and Security)

Harvey Rishikof is a Director of Policy and Cyber Security Research and Visiting Research Professor  at the University of Maryland  (Applied Research Laboratory For Intelligence and Security) a Visiting Professor of law at Temple Law School and Senor Counselor to the ABA Standing Committee on law and National Security, recently serving as chair and Advisory Committee Chair. Rishikof is involved in a number of legal-policy projects sponsored by the MITRE FFRDC, the MacArthur Foundation, the Center for Strategic International Studies, the Hewlett Foundation, the National Science Foundation, and the National Academy of Sciences. His most recent publications are “Deliver Uncompromised, - Supply Chain,” (MITRE  report 2018)is “The National Security Enterprise: Navigating the Labyrinth,” (2009, 2nded. 2017). He is the former Director Military Commissions and Convening Authority at DoD, and the co-chair of the ABA Cybersecurity Legal Task Force.  Most recently he was senior counsel at Crowell & Moring, dean of faculty at the National War College, and held a joint appointment at Drexel University in the law school and the iSchool, College of Information Science and Technology. His last government position was senior policy advisor to the director of national counterintelligence at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence.  Before joining the government he was at the National Defense University, National War College in Washington, D.C., where he served as professor of law and national security studies, and also chaired the department of national security strategy. He specializes in national security law international law, media, civil liberties, civilian/military relations, governmental process, and the U.S. Constitution. Mr. Rishikof’s career includes experiences in the private sector, academia and public service and is a lifetime member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the American Law Institute. He is the chair of the advisory committee for the ABA Standing Committee on Law and National Security, he also is on the Board of Visitors for the National Intelligence University, an advisor to the Harvard Journal on National Security, on the US Board of Wilton Park, a Visiting Distinguished Research fellow of the Center for Strategic Research at INSS at NDU, and also acts as outside director for Chicago, Bridge and Iron (CBI). As dean of the Roger Williams University School of Law, Bristol, Rhode Island (1999-2001), he introduced courses in national security law and the Constitution, in cooperation with the Naval War College. Rishikof was also legal counsel to the deputy director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. As Administrative Assistant to the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court (1994-96), Mr. Rishikof, a former federal court of appeals law clerk in the Third Circuit for the Honorable Leonard I. Garth, served as chief of staff for Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist and was involved in general policy issues concerning the federal court system. In this capacity, he acted as liaison to the Executive Branch, Congress, the Federal Judicial Center and the Administrative Office of the United States Court.  For a number of years he was a Tutor in Social Studies and the Government Department at Harvard University. He was in private practice in Boston with Hale and Dorr. Rishikof has authored many publications and monographs and co-edited a book, Patriots Debate (2012). His most recent book publication is “The National Security Enterprise: Navigating the Labyrinth,” (2009, 2nd ed 2017).

Roland Trope - Partner, Trope and Schramm LLP, Adjunct Professor in the Departments of Law and of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point

Roland Trope is a partner in the New York City offices of Trope and Schramm LLP and an Adjunct Professor in the Departments of Law and of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, where he has been teaching since 1992. He is Public Liaison on the ABA Cybersecurity Legal Task Force, Vice-Chair of the Intellectual Property Committee for the ABA Public Contracts Law Section and Co-Host for the podcast series, Mind the Gap: Dialogs on AI, IP, and Security (scheduled start broadcasting episodes in February 2022). Mr. Trope has a national security practice in which he advises on government procurement, protection and licensing of intellectual property under government contracts, cross-border tech transfers, export controls, economic sanctions regulations, anti-corruption laws, reviews by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS), determinations of foreign ownership, control, and influence (FOCI), cyberspace law, cybersecurity, and artificial intelligence. Mr. Trope has over 30 years of experience in cross-border legal transactions representing governments and multinational corporate clients. He represents high tech companies in the U.S., Canada, Europe and Asia, and U.S. grid owners and operators. He has represented governments in international arbitrations of commercial contracts for design and development of advanced, computer-based systems. His international work includes significant experience in advising Japanese automotive manufacturer and gas/chemical companies, and ministries of defense and aerospace and defense contract clients in Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Thailand, Japan, the Mideast, Norway, The Netherlands, Brazil and Canada. He has written more than 30 articles and co-authored two books: Checkpoints in Cyberspace: Best Practices for Averting Liability in Cross-Border Transactions and Sailing in Dangerous Waters: A Director’s Guide to Data Governance. He co-edited and was a co-author for the Guide to Cybersecurity Due Diligence in M&A Transactions. He co-authored a chapter in the ABA Cybersecurity Handbook (1st and 2nd editions) and wrote a chapter for the Handbook’s 3rd edition (to be published in January/February 2022). Mr. Trope earned a B.A. from the University of Southern California. As Marshall Scholar and as a Danforth Fellow, he studied English Language and Literature at Oxford University, earning a B.A. and M.A. He earned a J.D. at Yale Law School. He clerked on the Minnesota Supreme Court, and began practicing law in New York City in 1982.

Professor Narayanan Srinivasan

Security and Risk
School of Computer and Security Science
Emirates-ECU Centre - Dubai | Edith Cowan University
E: n.srinivasan@ecu.edu.au

Nara Srinivasan is Professor of Security and Risk at Edith Cowan University, Perth Western Australia and Director of the Emirates-ECU Centre in Dubai. He completed his studies at the University of Malaya and Cambridge University, UK in areas of Criminology and Public Administration. Nara also completed programmes at Cornell and Harvard Universities in the areas of security management, international security and current trends in security profiling. Nara is engaged in many research projects in the area of aviation and maritime security in Australia, UK, Asia Pacific and the Middle East and works as a consultant to airlines and governments in these regions. He is credited with professionalising the security industry through education programmes globally. Nara is also part of the UN expert group on Civilian Private Security and a member of several professional groups looking at the professionalisation of security including the Australasian Council of Security Professionals;

Professor Nara specialises in the areas of security and risk at Edith Cowan University, Perth Western Australia and is the Director of the Emirates-ECU Centre in Dubai. He is well-versed in security management, international security and current trends in security profiling. He frequently engages in aviation and maritime security research projects in Australia, UK, Asia Pacific and the Middle East.  He also works as a consultant to airlines and governments and is credited with professionalizing the security industry through education programmes globally. Nara is also part of the UN expert group on Civilian Private Security and a member of several security professional groups.