Chris Mitchell is Professor of Computer Science at Royal Holloway. He helped establish the Information Security Group and the M.Sc in Information Security. He has been involved with a number of international projects, including the Mobile VCE Core 3 programme, the Mobile VCE Core 2 programme, four recent EU 5th Framework projects, and two EU ACTS projects on security for third generation mobile telecommunications systems. He is currently convenor of Technical Panel 2 of BSI IST/33 and is involved with ISO/IEC JTC1/SC27. Professor Mitchell has edited eight international security standards, authored six books, and published well over 150 research papers. He is academic editor of Computer and Communications Security Abstracts, and a member of the Editorial Advisory Board for the journals of the London Mathematical Society. He is a member of Microsoft's Trustworthy Computing Academic Advisory Board, and he continues to act as a consultant on a variety of topics in information security.