Meet the Team

David Chadwick has been a Professor of Information Systems Security at the University of Kent for 15 years, specialising in authorisation and access controls. He was the designer and chief architect of the PERMIS open source X.509 authorisation infrastructure. For the last three years he has been an invited expert to W3C Verifiable Credentials Working Group and is a co-author of the standard. Before accademia he was General Manager of Salford Software Services an IT company specialising in state of the art networking products.

Ioram Sette has a PhD in Computer Science from the Federal University of Pernambuco (UFPE), in Brazil, which included a 1-year internship at the University of Kent (UKC) with David Chadwick. His career has included working as a Senior Software Engineering Consultant and as a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) / DevOps Consultant at the Recife Center for Advanced Studies and Systems (CESAR) for 10 years and being a Lecturer at the CESAR School university, where he also supervises students on the Professional PhD programme. 

Diane Joyce, one of the OWI Top 100 Leaders in Identity 2019, was pivotal in the creation of the UK’s Digital Citizen programme. Diane has worked with both public and private sector organisations to set the strategy for standardisation of the way in which identities are assured and asserted. This has included working with  the UK government to establish a pan-government community for identity, and advising IDAM vendors on how to achieve a secure and scalable identity federation.