James Clarke is a Strategic EU Liaison Manager for the Telecommunications Software and Systems Group (TSSG). Mr. Clarke, MSc.,  has been working for the  Waterford Institute of Technology (WIT) at the Telecommunications Software and Systems Group (TSSG) since February 2005.

Since January 2011, Mr. Clarke has been the project coordinator of a European Framework Program 7 Co-ordination action entitled ‘BIC’, which stands for Building International Cooperation for Trustworthy ICT: Security, Privacy and Trust in Global Networks & Services.   BIC will engage the European Union trust and program management (funding organizations) and research communities with associated peers located internationally in Brazil, India and South Africa.  This  will enable greater collaboration amongst research communities in trust and security, and will reflect what has already been established in the US, Australia, Japan, Korea and Canada, and in the recently concluded INCO-Trust project that Mr. Clarke also coordinated from 2008 – 2010.

In addition to being on the Science and Technology Board of the TSSG, Mr. Clarke was twice voted onto the two year terms of Steering Board member of the European eMobility Technology Platform (now Net!Works), and is also involved in the Future Internet Assembly (FIA) as one of the Trust and Security organisers and Program Committee members. For the FIA Budapest conference held in  May 2011, he was  involved with  organising a session on the challenges associated with the Internet of Things (IoT) and impacts on trust, security and privacy. Mr. Clarke is actively involved in the research community, having served in various international conference committees as Chair and program committee member.  Mr. Clarke also worked on the Framework Programme 6 (FP6) projects IST ESFORS and SecurIST projects.

Prior to joining WIT, Mr. Clarke worked at LAKE Communications for eight years and Grumman Corporation for eight years