ICT4Peace is honoured to announce that on 7 September 2020 the ICT4Peace Foundation Board appointed Ms. Anne-Marie Buzatu as Vice-President and Chief Operating Officer of ICT4Peace. Anne-Marie will take up her new function on 15 October 2020. She will also be a Senior Advisor to the Zurich Hub for Ethics and Technology (ZHET).
Anne-Marie Buzatu has worked as a Senior Advisor to ICT4Peace. She is co-founder of Security and Human Empowerment Solutions, a values-driven initiative to improve human security and development opportunities for international and national stakeholders and local communities. Previous to this, Anne-Marie was Deputy Head of the Public-Private Partnerships Division at DCAF in Geneva where she worked for nearly 12 years. In this role she led under a Swiss government mandate the development of the International Code of Conduct for Private Security Service Providers (ICoC), a multistakeholder initiative which set out international human rights compliant principles and standards for the private security industry. She subsequently led the creation of the International Code of Conduct Association (ICoCA), the multistakeholder oversight mechanism for the ICoC, where she also served as Interim Executive Director.
An international lawyer by training, Anne-Marie has worked extensively with governments and multilateral actors to support international and human security policy initiatives. She also worked for several years in the information technology sector. This understanding of information technologies enables her to bridge the expertise divide, translate between policy and technology specialists, and identify pragmatic and effective cybersecurity policy and governance approaches.
Anne-Marie has published several policy papers and articles in the areas of private security and cybersecurity. Her most recent publication is a chapter on Global Cybersecurity and the Private Sector published in the Routledge Handbook of International Cybersecurity (2020).