euCONSENT ASBL Advisory Board
The euCONSENT ASBL Advisory Board consists of the Chair, John Carr OBE, along with other eminent individuals selected for their expertise of various industries, regulatory landscapes and social policy issues which fall within the scope of euCONSENT.
The Board offers feedback on the non-governmental organisation’s progress from the perspective of stakeholders representing various sectors and jurisdictions. Board members provide the non-profit entity with valuable insight, and help to facilitate community engagement within their respective spheres.
John Carr
John Carr OBE is the former Chair of the UK’s Children’s Charities’ Coalition for Internet Safety and has agreed to chair this Board. He is one of the world’s leading authorities on children’s and young people’s use of the internet and associated new technologies, and a key figure in coordinating the activities of charities, academics and NGOs involved in online child protection across the EU and more widely.
John is a Board member of the Canadian Centre for Child Protection and is a former Senior Adviser to ECPAT International, the Council of Europe, the International Telecommunication Union, and is a former member of Microsoft’s Policy Board for Europe, the Middle East and Africa.
In June, 2010, John was honoured by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II with an OBE for services to online child protection. In November, 2011, John received an award for “Outstanding Achievement” in the field of online child safety from the Washington DC based Family Online Safety Institute. In 2006, he was named by the New Statesman as one of 50 global “Modern Heroes”. In 2003 John was also named by New Media Age as one of the UK’s 50 most influential people in the new media industries.
John regularly contributes to TV and radio programmes on the subject of online safety and security. John was also formerly the internet columnist for Prospect magazine and has written about the internet for The Observer, The Economist, The Times, The Daily Telegraph, New Statesman, The Guardian, the Oxford University Press and many other journals, both in the UK and overseas.
Mieke Schuurman
Director of Child Rights & Capacity Building
Mieke Schuurman
Mieke is Director of Child Rights & Capacity Building at Eurochild, a leading network of organisations and individuals working to promote children's rights and well-being in Europe.
Mieke oversees Eurochild's children's rights work, including children's participation and children's rights in the digital environment, in particular focusing on online safety. She represents Eurochild externally at EU level and in particular with regards to the UN and the Council of Europe.
She speaks English, French, Dutch, and German.
Elizabeth Gosme
Director
COFACE
Elizabeth Gosme
Elizabeth is Director of COFACE, a pluralistic network of civil society associations promoting the well-being, health and security of families and their members in a changing society.
Elizabeth is an EU social policy analyst with extensive experience in EU affairs representing the interests of civil society organisations.
She has worked extensively with various EU institutions contributing to building a social policy architecture for Europe.
Cecilia Alvarez
EMEA Privacy Policy Director
Facebook
Cecilia Alvarez
Cecilia Alvarez is EMEA Privacy Policy Director at Facebook.
She has extensive experience in data protection law, and was previously chair of APEP, the Spanish Privacy Professional Association.
Henning Mellage
Legal Advisor to the Media Authority of North Rhine-Westphalia
Henning Mellage
Henning serves as a legal advisor to the Media Authority of North Rhine-Westphalia.
He also chairs a working group on youth protection in digital media of the german Commission for the Protection of Minors in the Media, the KJM.
Lubos Kuklis
Expert on media regulation and internet governance
Lubos Kuklis
Lubos is an expert on media regulation and internet governance.
He works as a Digital Services Act enforcement team member for the European Commission (DG Connect).
He is also a former chief executive of Slovak media authority and former chair of ERGA and EPRA.
Hans Martens
Head of Digital Citizenship European Schoolnet
Hans Martens
Hans Martens (PhD) is Head of Digital Citizenship at European Schoolnet. He is responsible for the Digital Citizenship strategy of the organisation, managing a team of 15+ dedicated to a variety of public and private projects covering aspects such as digital skills, media literacy, online safety and children rights in a digital world. Within this context, Hans is leading – on behalf of the European Commission – the Better Internet for Kids initiative while coordinating the Insafe network of Safer Internet Centres, among other activity lines.
Hans joined European Schoolnet in February 2012. His key tasks include governance, management and outreach, team and project coordination, liaising with various Ministries of Education and European Commission units, as well as being the point of contact for other key strategic partners, from government, civil society and industry.
Victor Petuya
President, European
Parents’ Association
Victor Petuya
Victor is President of the European Parents’ Association (EPA), an organisation working to represent parents in the development of education policies and decisions taken at a European level.
EPA aims to promote the active participation of parents and recognise their central place as primarily responsible for the education of their children.
Lise Fuhr
Director, ETNO – European Telecoms Network Operators Association
Lise Fuhr
She leads and oversees all of ETNOs activities and is the main external representative of the Association.
She is also a Board and Administrative Committee member of the European Cybersecurity Organisation, ESCO.
David Austin
Chief Executive of the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC)
David Austin
David is Chief Executive of the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) the UK's independent regulator of film and video content and commercial and internet content delivered via the UK's mobile networks). David is responsible for making executive decisions on behalf of the Board of Classification, ensuring the execution of policy, management, and handling external relations with the industries and people they serve, as well as other relevant bodies. David joined the BBFC in 2003 after a career in the Diplomatic Service, serving in South Asia, Central Africa and the former Yugoslavia. He is also a member of the Board of the Cinema Advertising Association (CAA).
The BBFC was the designated Age-verification regulator under the 2017 Digital Economy Act, a piece of UK child protection legislation that would have required all adult websites to implement age verification.
Jürgen Bänsch
Senior Director of Policy & Public Affairs at Video Games Europe.
Jürgen Bänsch
Jürgen is Senior Director of Policy & Public Affairs at Video Games Europe.
Since 1998, Video Games Europe has ensured that the voice of a responsible games ecosystem is heard and understood.
ISFE works to spread the word on its members' positions on significant political and legal initiatives of European and international institutions
Claudia Lampert
Head of the Research Group "Growing Up with Digital Media"
Dr. Claudia Lampert
She heads the research group "Growing Up with Digital Media" at Leibniz Institute for Media Research | Hans-Bredow-Institut in Hamburg and is a member of the EU Kids Online Management Group for many years.
She is the coordinator of "Children Online: Research and Evidence (CO:RE)", a European knowledge base for researchers and stakeholders in the area of children and online media (see https://core-evidence.eu/).
Dirk Bosmans
Director General of PEGI s.a. (Pan-European Game Information)
Dirk Bosmans
Dirk Bosmans is the Director General of PEGI s.a. (Pan-European Game Information), the organisation that runs the age rating system for video games.
He oversees the continuous development of the PEGI system and works with national trade associations, governmental organisations and industry partners across Europe on raising awareness about video game culture and media literacy in general, and age ratings for games in particular.
Ross Creelman
(observer)
Public Policy Manager ETNO
Ross Creelman
Martin Schmalzreid
(observer)
Policy and Advocacy Manager, COFACE
Martin Schmalzreid
Martin is a Policy and Advocacy Manager at COFACE.
Martin represents COFACE as a policy expert in EU level projects, and drafts and dissemminates policy papers on behalf of the organisation.
His responisibilities include covering consumer affairs, education, and new information technologies.
Thomas Bihlmayer
(Observer)
Treasurer EuroISPA
Thomas Bihlmayer
Thomas is treasurer of EuroISPA – the Internet Service Providers’ Association, alongside his role as a Policy Advisor at eco, the Association of the Internet Industry.
EuroISPA represents the interests of more than 2,300 European Internet service providers, with members including Google, Facebook, Amazon and Microsoft.
Thomas is a lawyer and has worked at eco's EU office in Brussel's since 2016.
