Chief Operating Officer, Cloud Security Alliance
John Howie is Chief Operating Officer of the Cloud Security Alliance. John has over twenty years of experience working in information and communications technology in a variety of industry sectors including financial, telecommunications, entertainment, education and software manufacturing. Prior to joining the Cloud Security Alliance, John managed the groups responsible for security in the datacenters of a leading cloud provider. John is a Visiting Professor at Edinburgh Napier University’s School of Computing, a Visiting Research Professor at the University of Arizona’s Eller School of Management, is a member of the editorial advisory board for the Journal of Information Management and Computer Security, is a member of the certification advisory board for certifications of the International Association of Privacy Professionals, and is an advisor to the United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute’s Security Governance/Counter-Terrorism Laboratory. John graduated from Edinburgh Napier University with a BSc (Hons) in Computing, in June 1991, and was awarded the degree of Doctor of Technology (h.c.) in June 2012 from the same.