Laura K. Ipsen is senior vice president of Global Policy and Government Affairs for Cisco, the global leader for networking for the Internet. Since 1996, she has been responsible for developing Cisco’s public policy agenda and managing government affairs activities worldwide. In addition, she is a co-chair of Cisco’s EcoBoard, focusing on Cisco’s initiatives and leadership on environmental issues, and leads the company’s Women’s Advisory Group, which identifies and recommends gender-focused strategies in partnership with the Inclusion and Diversity Council.

Ipsen is the chair of the board of directors for the Information Technology Industry Council (ITIC), and serves on the board of the European American Business Council, the Public Affairs Council, and the Technology Board for Pacific Research Institute. She is the past president and chair of the board of the Organization of Women in International Trade (OWIT).

Prior to Cisco, Ipsen worked in government affairs and international trade for Hitachi Data Systems and Acer Corp. She began her career in government affairs and international trade with PriceWaterhouseCooper’s.

Ipsen received her bachelor’s degree in international relations from the University of Virginia. She studied Arabic at Yarmouk University in Jordan, and did graduate work in business at Stanford University.

Jennifer Sanford joined Cisco in April 2004, and serves as senior manager of Trade Policy. Jennifer is responsible for the development and implementation of Cisco’s international trade policy strategy, particularly with respect to China, and for strategic planning and internal operations of Cisco’s global government affairs team.

Prior to her career at Cisco, Jennifer served seven years as director of international trade policy at the American Electronics Association in Washington, D.C., where she successfully led the high-tech industry’s efforts to secure congressional passage of legislation to reauthorize Trade Promotion Authority (TPA) in 2002, and to establish China’s Permanent Normal Trade Relations (PNTR) status in 2000. She also worked many years on the development and implementation of the European Union (EU) environmental laws on electronics.

Jennifer’s career began in San Francisco, Calif., with a customs consulting firm, Worldtariff (now owned by FedEx), where she researched and reported international customs tariffs on high-tech products in Europe, North Africa, India and the Republics of the former Soviet Union.

Jennifer holds a bachelor’s and master’s degrees in International Policy Studies from the Monterey Institute of International Studies and serves on the board of the Eben Tisdale Public Policy Fellowship.

Adam Golodner is the director of global security and technology policy for Cisco. Adam works collaboratively across the company to help direct global public policy for security with governments, thought leaders, partners and others. He helps advance Cisco's strong commitment to security, and works on a strategic focus for security as a means of enhancing productivity, efficiency and competitive advantage for the company’s customers. Additionally, Adam is an Executive Fellow at Dartmouth’s Tuck School of Business, Center for Digital Strategies.

Prior to joining Cisco, he was the associate director for policy of the Institute for Security Technology Studies at Dartmouth College, where he focused on the intersection of technology, economics and law. He is also the former chief of staff of the Antitrust Division of the United States Department of Justice. In this role, he worked on mergers, enforcement matters and competition policy—focusing on technology, telecommunications, media, regulated industries, intellectual property and international issues. Adam is also the former deputy administrator of the Rural Utilities Service, United States Department of Agriculture, where he led efforts on universal service, broadband, e-education and e-health. Before that, he served as a search manager in the White House Office of Presidential Personnel.

Adam has served on: the White House’s E-Commerce Working Group; the White House’s National Information Infrastructure (NII) Task Force; the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners (NARUC) Telecommunications Committee; the U.S. Delegation to the WTO, Seattle Round; and the Department of Justice's Privacy Council.

He has participated in many policy programs, including the Salzburg Seminar, the Aspen Institute, the National Academies of Sciences, the Brookings Institution, the Rueschlikon Conference, the IEEE, Harvard University, the University of Virginia, as well as other forums.

Prior to corporate, academia and government service, he was a partner in a Denver, Colorado law firm and practiced corporate law.

He graduated from The Colorado College with honors and the University of Colorado’s School of Law, where he was articles editor of the Law Review.

Jeffrey A. Campbell is director of Technology and Communications Policy, responsible for developing and implementing Cisco’s public policy agenda with respect to telecommunications and technology issues. In addition to his expertise in telecommunications regulation, he has experience in the intersection of copyright law and information technology.

Prior to this position at Cisco, Jeff led the Washington government affairs office of Compaq Computer. He began his career as a telecommunications regulatory attorney with the Washington, D.C., office of Squire, Sanders & Dempsey.

Jeff received his B.A. in history from Yale University and his J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center.

Richard Allan is senior manager of government affairs for the United Kingdom and Ireland. Richard leads Cisco's policy work on advanced technologies in the EU and also supports policy work in the Nordic region. He recently stepped down from his seat in the U.K. Parliament where he was IT spokesman for the Liberal Democrat party and an active Member of Parliament (MP) since 1997, working on ICT policy issues.

During his time as an MP, Richard worked on issues ranging from digital convergence; implementing provisions of the U.K. Telecommunications Law that created OFCOM; assessing the development of the Internet and electronic commerce and the impact of the development of the Internet on traditional communications industry and policy structures. He speaks and writes regularly on a broad range of technology-related subjects and takes a particular interest in the development of e-democracy and e-government. In October 2004 he was appointed as an academic visitor to the Oxford Internet Institute.

Prior to serving as an MP, Allan worked for the National Health Service from 1991-1997, developing information systems to support primary health care and as a field archaeologist. He has a B.A. in archaeology and anthropology from Pembroke College, Cambridge, and an MSc. in information technology from Bristol Polytechnic.

Mary L. Brown joined Cisco in 2004 and serves as director of technology and spectrum policy in Washington, D.C.. Among the issues she follows are homeland security, wireless, and lawful intercept. During her career, she has worked as a consultant, as in-house counsel for the pre-bankruptcy MCI, and for approximately 10 years as a staff lawyer and manager at the Federal Communications Commission. In addition to telecommunications issues, she has substantial experience in Internet law and policy, as well as wireless issues. She holds a J.D. with honors from the Syracuse College of Law, and a Master of Science in telecommunications from the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse. She is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.

Monique Meche is director, Government Affairs, European and Emerging markets for Cisco. She drives the company’s public policy agenda across Europe, the Middle East and Africa.

Monique joined Cisco in June 2004 after 12 years of work in business development, government relations and sales and marketing for the ICT industry in Europe, the United States and Japan. She spent nine of those years at Intel Corporation in various senior management roles, most recently as director of product marketing in Tokyo, Japan. In 1995, Monique opened Intel’s government affairs office in Brussels, Belgium, and was recognized as a leader on a range of policy issues including telecommunications, Internet commerce, copyright and trade. She was responsible for investments in wireless applications and technology for Intel Capital from 2000–2003.

Monique began her career in Brussels as a telecommunications and international trade consultant, advising new entrants in the telecommunications market in Europe. She also founded the European Multimedia Forum to advise and secure funding for content-related start-up companies in 1993.

Monique holds a B.A. in economics from Tulane University (New Orleans) and holds graduate degrees from the Institut d’Etudes Politiques (Paris) and the College of Europe (Bruges). In a personal capacity, Monique has lived and worked in numerous European countries over the past 15 years and speaks English, French, German and Japanese.

Morgan Elliott is executive director of Government Affairs in Canada.

Morgan has more than 10 years of experience providing public affairs and government relations advice to senior elected and bureaucratic officials. Prior to joining Cisco, he served in several senior roles facilitating public policy development, budgetary and strategic planning, procurement strategies, and corporate governance with key decision makers in the Canadian and international public sector arena.

As part of his tenure within the Canadian government, he has advised and participated with other senior Canadian officials in major international forums such as the G8, G20, World Bank, and International Monetary Fund.

Morgan also has experience in the technology sector. In addition to providing strategic advice and a financial investment, he developed initial marketing plans for a start-up technology company that was subsequently purchased by a major Fortune 50 company.

He has an MBA from Queens University, Kingston, Ontario, a Master of Public Administration degree from KU Leuven, Belgium, and an Honours B.A. in political science from the University of Windsor, Ontario.