Carlos creus moreira

Carlos Creus Moreira, 51, is the Co-Founder, chairman of the Board and Chief Executive of WISeKey Corporation, the fastest growing company in e-trust and e-security for personal, governmental and business computing. Carlos Moreira is Swiss and was born in Cadiz, Spain, 1 Septembre 1958. He has over 20 years experience working with information systems for large multinationals, consulting groups, international organizations and the United Nations.
Originally a former United Nations expert in Telecommunications, Security and Information Networks, Carlos Moreira has been responsible for research, development, implementation, analyses and negotiations related to technology, e-security and e-commerce for the United Nations and specialized agencies. He has focused in particular on the relationship between information technologies, security, telecommunications, and international trade networks. As World Technology Coordinator of the UNCTAD Trade Point Programme, he was responsible for the development of the world’s largest Internet Network of Mirror Sites and Secure hubs for for E-commerce (GTPNet).
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After completing his studies, Carlos Moreira was recruited by International Organizations agencies (European Free Trade Association, International Labour Office, International Trade Center and UNCTAD) in Geneva and the United Nations where he was successively the special adviser on new technologies for these agencies.
Since 1983, he was one of the International Trade Center UNCTAD/WTO experts in new technologies and Telecommunications in charge of Trade Information Networks and e-commerce systems, and specialized on secure information-network services connecting embassies, ministries and their staff via secure telecommunications networks.
During this period he had the opportunity to work in many pioneering Internet and Web related projects using the opportunity that the WWW was developed by the CERN in Geneva with close cooperation with the technical community in the city.
During this assignment with ITC, Mr. Moreira conceptualized and developed several major Information Technology applications for Trade Promotion Organizations, focal points of ITC in developing countries. His experience in electronic commerce, started with the development of security networks for Overseas Trade Representations at embassies. He developed for the International Trade Center of the United Nations, the Overseas Trade Information Network Concept, Market Intelligence System, MIS with 22 governments presently connecting their embassy’s commercial representations via this system, and the Trade Opportunity Monitoring System, TOMS for the Arab Monetary Fund connecting 22 Arab countries banking institutions via a secure link.
He also was the Head of the UN Development Center for the Global Trade Point Network. During this project he conceptualized and developed the GTPnet and the Electronic Trading Opportunity (ETO) system, which was at that time the world's largest trading switch and precursor of many e-marketplace application now operational on the Internet (ec21.com, alibaba.com, wtpfed.org, safetransact.com, etc).
In 1993, he was appointed by UNCTAD as the Head of the UN Development Center for the Global Trade Point Network were he led the process of creating the first Web Portal for the United Nations and one of the world top 10 Web Sites in terms of traffic connected to a network of Mirror Sites in 35 Universities around the world.
In 1994, he successfully launched the Electronic Trading Opportunity System and Trade Point System developed by the UN Development Center for the Global Trade Point Network at the World Summit on Trade Efficiency in Columbus, Ohio, USA with a demonstration to the UN Secretary General Boutros-Boutros Galhi in the presence of Mr. Ron Brown - Secretary of Commerce United State of America
In 1995, he became responsible for the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology "Trade Efficiency Center" in Australia. This center was responsable for the technology development of the newly created Special Programme for Trade Efficiency at UNCTAD. Following the decision made by the General Assembly of the United Nations to convene the International Symposium on Trade Efficiency (UNISTE), he was responsible for the research and development and technical deployment of the Global Trade Point Network, GTPNet.
In 1996, he assisted UNCTAD as the technology coordinator of the Trade Point Programme, through which the United Nations is establishing the Global Trade Point Network (GTPNet), which includes over 130 ‘telecenters’ in all regions of the world. The system was sucessfully demonstrated at the United Nations Summit in Midrand, South Africa April 1996.
A core purpose of GTPNet is to allow traders worldwide to benefit from recent advances in the area of information technologies and telecommunications. One of Carlos Moreira's responsibilities in this context was to keep abreast of the latest developments in the fields of the telecommunications industry, especially as they relate to the Internet and its uses for economic and social development.
In 1999 after leaving the UN, he founded WISekey and started a new phase of his carrier by combining the experienes from the International Organizations years to private sector activities. Wisekey SA is now a world recognized e-security company securing the Internet to ensure electronic transactions. WISekey became world-known, as the first company in the world to store a ROOT Key on a Swiss Mountain Bunker.
WISeKey since them has became a leading E-Security company with strategic shareholders from listed E-Security companies in the US and EU. Carlos Moreira together with his partner and cofounder of WISeKey, Malcolm Hutchinson, led the process of fund-rising of over 15 million dollars for the development of WISeKey and making WISeKey one of the world's largest provider of Internet trust services in the world, which encompasses digital signatures, authentication, validation and payment services.
In 2000, The Secretary-General of the International Telecommunication Union, Mr Yoshio Utsumi, signed a Trust Fund partnership agreement with WISekey in an unprecedented effort to open electronic commerce to developing nations. The Trust Fund partnership establishes a framework by which WISeKey and the World Trade Center Geneva was created to assist the ITU in expanding the Electronic Commerce in Developing Countries project (EC-DC) using the World Trade Center network and its global infrastructure of more than 300 Registration Authority centres in more than 100 countries.
The same year , Carlos Moreira, organized and chaired the ITU-WISeKey Conference for Secure Electronic Transactions in November 2000, were over 100 countries and the ITU Expert Group on E-Security participated together with over 200 private sector representatives. The participating countries ratified and committed their participation to the WISeKey-ITU Public Key Infrastructure.
In 2001, Carlos Moreira led the process to establish in cooperation with the International Telecommunication Union a Memorandum of Understanding for Worldetrust. Worldetrust was establish with the intention to establish an inclusive, technology-neutral and technology independent framework for contributions towards a beneficial, non-exclusive, cost-effective and global development and deployment of highly secure infrastructure and applications for value-added e-services in Developing and Least Developed Countries worldwide. Since it was launched in June 2001, more than 60 countries represented by governments, private sector and civil society have already the World e-Trust MoU.
In 2002 Mr. Moreira was invited by the Chancellor of the Republic of Geneva, Mr. Robert Hensler as member of the “steering committee” to assist the government in the development of the Geneva E-Voting project and for WISeKey the security technology for the project. In 2003, the Geneva E-Voting project was launched and tested in a world premiere in Anieres in Geneva in what is still is the first ever binding internet based e-voting performance.
In 2003, Mr. Moreira assisted to the Breakthrough in Quantum Cryptography - a Swiss partnership which released the world's first integrated Quantum Key Infrastructure demonstrated at Telecom 2003.
During 2003 Mr. Moreira organized the Secure E-Government Center were ITU and WISeKey to demonstrated successful E-Services projects as part of the E-Strategy partnership signed between both organizations in 1999 .
During 2004, Mr. Moreira established a global partnership relation between Microsoft and WISekey on Electronic Identification which is becoming the largest eID project in the world with chances to become the de facto standard on issuing eIDs for Government, Health, Finance and other sectors of the e-economy.
During 2005, Mr. Moreira, worked with WISekey in security components of a major project in the US with the name Destiny USA on which their contribution assisted the project to become one of the most secure place in earth. see http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/050303/ukth004_1.html
He also prepared the contribution of OISTE to the Second meeting of the committee of preparation of the World Summit on Information Society Geneva. This contribution had the objective to propose the transfer of control and management of technologies related to the fundamental security of the Internet to neutral authorities working in the public interest. http://www.itu.int/dms_pub/itu-s/md/03/wsispc2/c/S03-WSISPC2-C-0079!!MSW-F.doc.
During 2006, Mr. Moreira originated the Geneva Security Forum which has been founded to assess the interconnectedness of security threats and the need for rapid, flexible and effective responses in the face of ever-increasing security risks for everybody; populated areas, strategic industries, transportation networks, supply chains, businesses, employees and civilians. In addition to a high-level, exclusive symposium, the Geneva Security Forum will also consist of a trade show highlighting the latest in security technology and training seminars on a range of security-related issues.
Initiated by the Canton of Geneva, Palexpo and WISekey, the Geneva Security Forum, with a multi-stakeholder approach, will bring together leaders from business, politics and academia who are at the forefront of thinking on security with the aim of producing concrete recommendations, developing new innovative strategies for managing security threats and sharing knowledge on best practices in coping with risk. Of particular importance will be an assessment of the growing role of Information Communication Technology (ICT) in security and the security of ICT. The Forum will be a time-effective, privileged platform for discussions among business leaders, senior policy-makers, opinion leaders and renowned thinkers. http://gsf.wisekey.com/
Also in 2006, Carlos become member of the Clinton Global Initiative and launch a project to provide assist to reduce Global Poverty by using Digital Identification and electronic transactions with the code name NetID http://www.etrustblog.com
In his present position, Mr. Moreira as Chairman of the Board and Executive President of WISeKey, he together with a team of global experts is responsible for the development of new ideas, technologies and concepts for esecurity and Information Infrastructure projects. Moreira’s foresight and vision for global technical cooperation have been central to the success of his present technological developments and systems developed during previous UN assignments projects.
Mr Moreira has worked in a variety of senior positions for the United Nations, including senior adviser on computerized trade information systems and telecommunications for the International Trade Centre, World Trade Organization. Head of the computer department of the European Free Trade Association EFTA, EDP coordinator for UN Non Governmental Liaison Services, and statistical research consultant for the International Labour Office (ILO), and United Nations Research Institute for Social Development. In addition, he has been on expert assignments for the United Nations Development program (UNDP), the European Union, the World Bank and the Arab Monetary Fund. His fieldwork includes UN missions to over 140 countries.
Philanthropy is also important to Moreira. He is one of the one of the founder and the Secretary General of the OISTE Foundation OISTE.ORG in Switzerland to support philanthropic initiatives in the areas of e-trust and digital divide with particular focus to e-health, e-learning and e-trade, with the hope that as we move into the 21st century, advances in these critical areas will be available for all people.
OISTE is a non for profit international organization based in Geneva, Switzerland. Founded in 1998, OISTE was created with the objectives of promoting the use and adoption of international standards to secure electronic transactions, expand the use of digital certification and ensure the interoperability of certification authorities e-transaction systems.
Academic qualifications
In 1983 after his university studies, Moreira joined the International Organizations in Geneva, with assignments at the European Free Trade Association, EFTA, the International Labour Office, the International Trade Center, the United Nations Conference for Trade and Development were he conceptualized and developed several major Information Technology projects for the United Nations and member countries.
In 1997 he was appointed as Adjunct Professor of the Graduate School of Engineering from 1995 to 1998. In addition, he was the head of the Trade Efficiency Lab at the Graduate School of Engineering at RMIT and the Electronic Commerce research project leader at the University of Minnesota in the United States for the establishment of a Secure Link connecting the US with the China Ministry of Foreign Trade and Technical Cooperation MOFTEC. Mr. Moreira is the co-founder and Secretary General of the International Organization for Secure Electronic Transactions. OISTE is a not for profit foundation which is governed by the Swiss Civil Code.
He has taught international trade, e-security, PKI and information technology management in several universities (Cairo-American University, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Asian Institute of Technology, Minnesota University, i.a.) A frequent invited speaker in international meetings he has addressed e-security and telecom issues in a wide number of fora such as the ITU, UN Summits, E-Security Symposiums, etc)
In addition to his love of computers and the Internet, Moreira is interested in secure intelligent buildings and intelligent houses and devices. He sits on the board of the World Trade Center Geneva a company that is presently developing an intelligent e-building in Geneva, and he is an investor in a number of other technology edge companies.
He is married with five children and is fluent in four languages (English, Spanish, French and Portuguese). He has organized and conducted several major international conferences on International Trade, Secure Electronic Transactions and Electronic Commerce.
Carlos Moreira is the author of numerous publications on information technology e-security, trust-models for e-governance and international. He maintains a blog on this sector at http://www.etrustblog.com

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