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Enterprise Privacy and Identity Management   Michael Waidner - Bio  Michael Waidner  title if provided goes here  IBM Research Division, Zurich Research Lab  wmi@zurich.ibm.com Web Sites www.zurich.ibm.com/~wmi Biography Dr. Michael Waidner is institute executive of the IBM Privacy Institute and manager of the Network Security and Cryptography research group at the IBM Zurich Research Laboratory. He is directing IBM’s research activities in technologies for enterprise privacy and data protection, which involves more than 40 researchers worldwide. He is also co-responsible for IBM’s strategy for research in information security and privacy. Dr. Waidner joined IBM in 1994. Since then he has been working on various projects in enterprise privacy technologies, secure electronic commerce, dependability in distributed systems, provably secure cryptographic primitives, and formal verification of cryptographic protocols. Before joining IBM, he was lecturer at the University of Karlsruhe, working and teaching on various aspects of cryptography, security and fault tolerance. Dr. Waidner is author of more than 70 research papers in security, privacy and cryptography, and served on the program committees of several international conferences on these topics. He received his Doctorate in Computer Science from the University of Karlsruhe, Germany, in 1991. He is member of the ACM, IACR, IEEE and GI.