Dr Klaus Vedder, Chairman, ETSI SCP & Group Senior Vice President Vice President, Giesecke & Devrient
After having held teaching positions for Mathematics at the Universities of London (England) and Gießen (Germany), he joined the central research section of Siemens AG in Munich where he led a group of cryptographers. In 1987 he moved to his present company where he set up the GSM business. Today Klaus is Group Senior Vice President and Head of the Telecommunications Division of Giesecke & Devrient (G&D) which is the number two in the world of smart cards.
From 1992 to 1996 he was chairman of the ISO/IEC committee SC27 "Information technology - Security techniques". The scope of this committee includes the standardisation of generic methods, techniques and evaluation criteria for IT Security.
He has been involved in the standardisation of the SIM from the very beginning in 1988. He has held the position of chairman of SIMEG, the SIM Expert Group then responsible for the standardisation of the SIM, and the various committees succeeding it since 1993. Today he chairs the ETSI Technical Committee "Smart Card Platform" (TC SCP) which was set up in the year 2000 to elaborate a generic smart card platform. Today’s SIM cards for 2G and 3G mobile communication systems are based on the specifications of this committee.