Speakers

Jim Gamble
Chairman, Virtual Global Taskforce & Chief Executive of Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre, UK

Jim Gamble has a strong background in counter terrorism and was Head of Special Branch Intelligence in Belfast, Northern Ireland.  Here he was in charge of all counter terrorism and operations relating to Irish terrorism in the UK and overseas.  Having joined the Police Service of Northern Ireland in 1982 (formerly the Royal Ulster Constabulary) he set about securing a wide range of command experience serving as both a uniform and detective officer in what was one of the most challenging policing environments in the UK.

At the end of 2001, Jim took up a leading role with the National Crime Squad for England and Wales as an Assistant Chief Constable and, in 2004, as Deputy Director General.  Jim was also responsible in this time for the UK’s National High Tech Crime Unit, co-ordination of Operation Ore – the UK’s largest ever investigation into online child abuse – and the national Paedophile Online Investigation Team.

Jim Gamble is passionate about keeping one step ahead of criminals through the use of technology to combat crime, particularly crimes against children.  To this end, Jim led the creation of the Virtual Global Taskforce to bring together law enforcement agencies from around the world to fight online child abuse. 

In November 2005 Jim Gamble was appointed by the British Government as Chief Executive of the new Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre.  The Centre formally started work in April 2006.

Julie Myers
Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)

Julie L. Myers is the assistant secretary of homeland security for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). In that role, Ms. Myers leads the largest investigative component of the Department of Homeland Security and the second largest investigative agency in the federal government, with more than 15,000 employees, including 6,000 investigators, and an annual budget of more than $4 billion. ICE is comprised of four integrated divisions that form a 21st century law enforcement agency with broad responsibilities for a number of key homeland security priorities.

Prior to her appointment by President Bush on Jan. 4, 2006, Ms. Myers served as special assistant to the president for presidential personnel. Before that, she was nominated by President Bush and unanimously confirmed by the United States Senate to serve as assistant secretary for Export Enforcement at the Department of Commerce. As assistant secretary, Ms. Myers supervised a nationwide law enforcement agency that specialized in export control violation, both civil and criminal.

Ms. Myers received her bachelor's degree from Baylor University and her J.D. from Cornell Law School. She is a native of Shawnee, Kansas.

Joe Sullivan MA (Crim), BA (Hons), CQSW, Dip Psych

Joe Sullivan is a recognised authority on this subject now seconded to CEOP. He is an Honorary Lecturer in Forensic Psychology at the University of Birmingham. He has assisted police forces in the UK and in other European countries on major crime enquiries involving the sexual murder of children, child abduction, organised child crime abuse and the sexual abuse of children on the Internet.

Kevin Zuccato
Federal Agent, Australian Federal Police & Director of Australian Hi Tech Crime Centre

Federal Agent Kevin Zuccato commenced as the Director of the Australian High Tech Crime Centre on 11 October 2004 having previously performed the role of Counsellor (Police Liaison), within the Embassy of Australia, Washington DC. 

Federal Agent Zuccato has 20 years experience in law enforcement.  His investigative and leadership experience encompasses most areas of organised crime, international narcotic trafficking, money laundering major fraud and general crime investigations.

He was a Coordinator within the AFP’s National Illicit Drug Strike Teams and the Coordinator Surveillance, Financial Investigations and Operations in the AFP’s Sydney office.  In 2000, he undertook a coordination role during the Sydney Olympic Games in the Sydney Office Command Centre. 

F/A Zuccato holds a Graduate Certificate of Applied Management through the Police Management Development Program (Executive) and a Graduate Diploma in Public Administration through Charles Sturt University. 

David Gork
Director for Specialized Crime, Interpol

Assistant Commissioner Gork joined the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in September 1971, after spending three years in the Canadian Armed Forces.  Following recruit training, he was posted to the Province of Ontario to the Governor General Troop.  In 1973, he was transferred to Manitoba.  Following four years experience in Contract Policing and drug enforcement, he was transferred to Ottawa in 1977 where he was appointed to the Security Engineering Section, Mechanical Security.

In 1992, he transferred to Victoria, B.C. as the officer in charge of the Federal Essential Services Security Commonwealth Games.  In 1995, he was appointed Superintendent in charge of the Winnipeg Pan Am Games.  In 2000, he was appointed Chief Superintendent as the Departmental Security Officer.  In September 2003, he was appointed as the Assistant Commissioner for Technical Operations. 

In 2005 he was appointed as the Director, Specialized Crime, seconded to Interpol in Lyon, France.

Assistant Commissioner Gork has received the Royal Canadian Mounted Police Long Service Medal, the Canada 125 Medal and the Queen's Jubilee Medal and a Commissioner's Commendation.

John P. Clark
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Operations, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)

Deputy Assistant Secretary Clark is responsible for the overall management and coordination of the agency's operations and serves as the assistant secretary's principal representative to the Department of Homeland Security, as well as law enforcement and intelligence communities.

Mr. Clark has served ICE in a variety of leadership positions, including as assistant secretary in which he led the 15,000 + employee agency from September 2005 to January 2006. He has also served as the first director of Investigations for ICE and as acting director of Operations, in which he led the ICE operational components, including the Office of Investigations, the Office of Intelligence, Detention and Removal Operations, the Federal Air Marshal Service and the Federal Protective Service, through the continuing transition process that began with the formation of the Department of Homeland Security in 2003.

A New York native, he received his Bachelor of Science degree in history from the State University of New York at Binghamton and a Master of Science degree from National-Louis University.

Ernie Allen
President and Chief Executive Officer, National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC)

Ernie Allen is President & Chief Executive Officer of the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC). He was a co-founder of the private, nonprofit Center, which has helped recover more than 104,900 children, while increasing its recovery rate from 62% in 1990 to 96% today.

Allen has brought technology and innovation to NCMEC, including age progressions of long-term missing children; and a CyberTipline that has handled more than 401,200 regarding child pornography and sexual exploitation reports, resulting in the prosecution of hundreds of predators. He launched a new International Centre and has built a global network which now includes sixteen nations.  Under his leadership, NCMEC has become one of America’s most respected nonprofit organizations.

Allen came to NCMEC following public service in his native Kentucky, where he was Chief Administrative Officer of Jefferson County, Director of Public Health & Safety for the City of Louisville, and Director of the Louisville-Jefferson County Crime Commission. He is a member of the Kentucky Bar.

Allen was named 2005 “Executive of the Year” by Non-Profit Times for his work in reuniting 5,000 children with their families following Hurricane Katrina. He was the 2004 recipient of the Henry Clay Distinguished Kentuckian Award.

Earla-Kim McColl
National Child Exploitation Co-ordination Centre, Royal Canadian Mounted Police

Supt. Earla-Kim McColl (E.K.) joined the RCMP in 1978. The majority of her service was spent in British Columbia in uniform policing.  Her background also includes Victim Services and Sex Crimes.

E.K. was appointed the Officer in Charge of the National Child Exploitation Coordination Centre (NCECC) in September 2005. Her vision for the center is to provide high level operational and strategic support to all operational units nationally and internationally; to concentrate on victim identification and rescue and to explore and exploit new technologies as they evolve. E.K. is the primary spokesperson for the NCECC. She is responsible for establishing and maintaining strategic partnerships both nationally and internationally.

E.K. is the Canadian Lead on the Virtual Global Taskforce, a coalition of international law enforcement committed to eradicating child sexual exploitation.

Maggie Eno
M’Lop Tapang (“Under the Tree”) Cambodia

M’Lop Tapang (“Under the Tree”) has been working since 2003 to provide a safe haven for street children in Sihanoukville, Cambodia. M’Lop Tapang’s mission is to provide street children with protection from all types of abuse, ensuring them a happy, healthy and safe childhood as well as a better future.

In December 2006, 55 of M’Lop Tapang staff and volunteers have worked with over 800 children in our 3 centres, 2 shelters and in communities reached by their outreach team. These are significant numbers for an organization born 3 and half years ago.

M’Lop Tapang’s focus for 2007 will be to improve the quality of their services.  They will have a new day centre where they will be able to work with more children and offer more services, including medical care.

M’Lop Tapang will have a community playground for all the children and youth of Sihanoukville. They will step up their Child Safe campaign and efforts to protect all children from sexual abuse.

Dr Ethel Quayle, BA, M.Sc., Psych.D.
Director, The COPINE Project, University College Cork, Ireland

Dr Ethel Quayle is a lecturer with the Department of Applied Psychology, University College Cork, Ireland, and a project director with the COPINE (Combating Paedophile Information Networks in Europe) Project.

The COPINE Project was founded in 1997, and is based in the Department of Applied Psychology, University College Cork, Ireland. The Project emerged out of the Child Studies Unit (CSU), which was created to explore and contribute to the development of facilities for street children and other disadvantaged children.

The COPINE Project is a unique academic initiative, applying Forensic and Clinical Psychology to the analysis of vulnerabilities for children related to the Internet. The initial focus of the Project related to sexual exploitation of children through the Internet, which finds expression in child pornography. Current work has developed from this, and is now focussed on developing the CROGA self-help web site, and projects related to adolescent offending. The Project has received significant funding from the EU Stop and Daphne programs, as well as private sources.