Kim Cameron is Chief Architect of Identity in the Identity and Security division, where he works on establishing a user-centric identity architecture for the Internet, and ensuring Active Directory, Federation Services, Identity Lifecycle Manager, CardSpace and Microsoft’s other identity products become its leading implementations.

Cameron joined the company in 1999 when Microsoft acquired ZOOMIT Corporation. As VP of Technology at ZOOMIT, he invented metadirectory technology and built the first shipping product. Before this, Cameron led BCH Research Laboratories’ work on OSI-based messaging, directory and security, supplying software to telecoms and Global 500 corporations.

Cameron grew up in Canada, attending King’s College at Dalhousie University and l’Université de Montréal. He has won a number of industry awards, including Digital Identity World’s Innovation Award (2005); Network Computing’s Top 25 Technology Drivers Award (1996) and MVP (Most Valuable Player) Award (2005); Network World’s 50 Most Powerful People in Networking (2005); Microsoft’s Trustworthy Computing Privacy Award (2007); Silicon.com’s Agenda Setters 2007; and the European Identity Awards (2008) for Best Innovation and Best Standard. Cameron is the non-European member of the EU’s Advisory Board on Research and Innovation for Security, Privacy and Trustworthiness.

Cameron blogs at identityblog.com, where he published the Laws of Identity.