Patrick Curry OBE CEng is the Director, British Business Federation Authority (BBFA), tasked with enabling the implementation of federated identity & access management across industry. He was instrumental in establishing federated trust mechanisms for US/UK/Europe secure collaboration for aerospace and defence with governments and major companies, helping to found the CertiPath PKI Bridge. He has worked in UK government and industry organisations, and with European agencies and governments from around the world. BBFA is the UK partner in EU Project MAPPING on Internet Governance and Privacy. He was a contributing author of the UK Gov Office of Science Report “Distributed Ledger Technologies: Beyond Block Chains”, and is active in enabling the adoption of block chains for secure collaboration, as well as developing new ISO and ITU-T international standards. He is an Advisory Group member for the Estonian e-Residency Programme. He holds several company directorships deploying innovative identity and privacy technologies.
