Opening of Conference

Prof. Fiona Stanley AC
FAA, FASSA, MSc, MD, FFPHM, FAFPHM, FRACP, FRACOG, Hon DSc
(Australian of the Year, Chief Executive Officer Australian Research Alliance for Children and Youth,Australia)

2003 Australian of the Year, Professor Fiona Stanley is the Founding CEO of the Australian Research Alliance for Children and Youth (since 2002), the Founding Director of the Telethon Institute for Child Health Research (since 1990); and Professor of the Department of Paediatrics at the University of Western Australia (since 1990).

With a research background in epidemiology, biostatistics and child and public health, Professor Stanley has, over many years, advocated for a collaborative approach between the biomedical, health, and social sciences to enable a better understanding of how genetic, biological, social and economic factors interact to affect the healthy development and wellbeing of children and young people. To that end, she played a key role in the establishment of the Australian Research Alliance for Children and Youth in 2002. The Alliance is a multi-disciplinary national collaboration of researchers, policy-makers and service providers which aims to integrate relevant knowledge across disciplines and sectors so that more effective programs can be implemented.

As inaugural CEO of the Australian Research Alliance for Children and Youth, Professor Stanley has advocated for a higher national priority to be afforded to developmental needs of Australia’s young and has been acknowledged for her role in the current Federal Government policy initiative of developing a “National Agenda for Early Childhood”. With cross-sector cooperation between the Alliance, social science agencies, the humanities and academic institutions, she has also successfully campaigned for the Federal Government’s National Research Priorities to be broadened to enable integration of the social science perspective.

As Director of the Institute of Child Health Research, in 1997, Professor Stanley's research group established the WA Maternal and Child Health Research Data Base (MCHRDB), a unique collection of data on births throughout Western Australia. The Data Base documents trends in maternal and child health and the impact of preventive programs (such as folate for spina bifida prevention and preventive maternal and child health in Aboriginal communities).

Professor Stanley’s main areas of research are based on analytical studies investigating

• strategies to enhance health and wellbeing in populations:
• the causes and prevention of birth defects and major neurological disorders particularly the cerebral palsies;
• the causes and lifelong consequences of low birth weight and other pre- and postnatal problems;
• patterns of maternal and child health in Aboriginal and Caucasian populations.

Plenary Session A "Regulating Privacy: what others are doing"

Mr Raymond Tang
(Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data, Hong Kong)

Raymond Tang Speaker Presentation (223 Kb Microsoft PowerPoint Presentation)

Raymond Tang Paper (176 Kb Microsoft Word Presentation)

Raymond Tang, Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data for Hong Kong since September 2001 monitors, supervises and promotes compliance with the Personal Data (Privacy) Ordinance. The Privacy Commissioner is an independent statutory body established under the Ordinance. The Ordinance applies to both public and private sectors . The office of the Commissioner is empowered to investigate suspected breaches of the Ordinance and enforce compliance.

Mr Tang has for many years (since 1967) practised as a lawyer in England and Hong Kong, initially as a solicitor and later a barrister at the Hong Kong Bar. He acquired experience in regulatory work when in 1996 he was appointed Chief Counsel to the Securities and Futures Commission of Hong Kong heading its Legal Division.

Plenary Session A "Regulating Privacy: what others are doing"

Prof. Allan Fels AO
(Dean, Australia and New Zealand School of Government, former ACCC Chairman, Australia)

Professor Allan Fels Speaker Presentation (83 Kb Microsoft Word Presentation)
Professor Allan Fels Speaker Presentation (83 Kb PDF Presentation)

On July 1, 2003 Professor Allan Fels became Dean of the Australia and New Zealand School of Government and retired as ACCC Chairman. Professor Fels was Chairman of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission from 1995.

Professor Fels was also:

• Chairman of the former Trade Practices Commission from 1991 until 1995.
• Chairman of the Prices Surveillance Authority from 1989 until 1992.
• Dean of the Graduate School of Management, Monash University from 1985 until 1990.
  

Professor Fels and is now an Honorary Professor in the Faculty of Business and Economics at Monash University and is the Co-Chairman of the Joint Group on Trade and Competition at the OECD.

He was awarded the Order of Australia in June 2001.

Plenary Session B “Building Community Trust: a practical perspective”

Jeroen Terstegge
(Privacy Officer and Legal Counsel Privacy and Data Protection Law for Royal Philips Electronics, The Netherlands)

Jeroen Terstegge Speaker Presentation (3.68 Mb Microsoft PowerPoint Presentation)

Mr Jeroen Terstegge Abstract (35 Kb Microsoft Word Presentation)

Before he joined Philips, he was a researcher in employee privacy at the University of Amsterdam and Maastricht University, worked on the draft of the Personal Data Protection Act at the Dutch Ministry of Justice and was a legal adviser on employee and social security privacy issues at the Dutch Data Protection Authority.

Jeroen Terstegge is a member of the privacy and data protection taskforces of:

• the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC);
• the Union of Industrial and Employers' Confederations of Europe (UNICE);
• the Dutch Industry and Employers Association (VNO-NCW);
• the International Communications Round Table (ICRT).

He is also a founding member of the European Privacy Officers Forum (EPOF).

Born in The Hague, Holland (1965), Jeroen has a degree in Business Law and Business Administration from the University of Groningen. He was a member of the Joint Advisory Committee on the legality of medical screening of job applicants of the Ministry of Social Affairs and Employment and the Royal Dutch Medical Association and has written several books and articles about employee privacy. When working at Maastricht University, he also gave classes in labour law and company law.

In his spare time, Jeroen writes columns for the Dutch online magazine Netkwesties, plays field hockey and volunteers at a community centre where he gives free legal advice.

Plenary Session B “Building Community Trust: a practical perspective”

Mr Michael Mitchell
(Chief IT Architect and Planner, Qantas, Australia)

Michael Mitchell Speaker Presentation (1.18 Mb Microsoft PowerPoint Presentation)

Michael Mitchell is Chief IT Architect and Planner at Qantas. He is responsible for developing Qantas strategies in the application and deployment of information and communications technologies. Michael has worked for more than 15 years in consulting and management roles in the airline and associated industries.

Parallel Session 1
“ Privacy Laws: practical effect on global businesses and consumers”

Mrs Pamela W.S. Chan
(Chief Executive of the Hong Kong Consumer Council)

Mrs Pamela W.S. Chan Speaker Presentation (143 Kb Microsoft PowerPoint Presentation)

Mrs Chan is Chief Executive of the Hong Kong Consumer Council (HKCC). She was President of Consumers International (CI) from 1997 - 2000 and is currently Member of the Council and Executive Board. CI has more than 270 member consumer organisations in 121 countries.

Hong Kong Consumer Council carries out a comprehensive range of consumer empowerment activities including consumer and competition advocacy, complaints handling, comparative testing, research, market surveillance, and consumer education. The Council has been a strong advocate for protection of consumer privacy, the most recent example being protection on sharing of credit data by financial institutions.

Mrs Chan tenders advice to consumer associations, provincial governments and Law Reform Commissions in Mainland China (there are 4,000 consumer associations in the country). She was consulted by some governments, such as Laos and Bangladesh, on the drafting of Consumer Laws and consumer policy issues.

Parallel Session 1
“ Privacy Laws: practical effect on global businesses and consumers”

Madame Ariane Mole
(Partner Cabinet Alain Bensoussan, France)

Madame Ariane Mole Speaker Presentation (616 Kb Microsoft PowerPoint Presentation)

Parallel Session 1
“ Privacy Laws: practical effect on global businesses and consumers”

Mr John Mendoza
(Chief Executive, Australian Sports Drug Agency, Australia)

John Mendoza Speaker Presentation (8.34 Mb Microsoft PowerPoint Presentation)

John Mendoza is currently the Chief Executive of the Australian Sports Drug Agency. He was appointed to this position in March 2001 and was the Acting CEO for almost six months prior to that and Deputy CEO of ASDA from February 1996.

He has 25 years experience and expertise in public policy, public sector senior management, strategic planning, organisational change, education and public health. He has been a member of numerous inter-governmental and inter-departmental committees and including three years on the Steering Committee for the National Campaign Against Drug Abuse in Australia. He is currently a member of the Steering Group of the International Anti-Doping Arrangement (IADA) and chaired the IADA-WADA taskforce developing the international standards for drug testing for 2 years.

He is an Associate Fellow of the Australian Human Resources Institute. In 2002, his contributions to public health and anti-doping were recognised by the Queensland University of Technology, with the Outstanding Alumni Award for the Faculty of Health and the University Alumni Award for Excellence and Innovation in 2002.

John is the also Chairperson of the Drug Free Sports Consortium (DFSC). The DFSC has been contracted to the World Anti-Doping Agency for the provision of drug testing services since April 2000.

Parallel Session 2
"People: organisational structures and incentives to support privacy"

Mr W. Peter Cullen
(Former Corporate Privacy Officer, Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) Financial Group, Canada, now Chief Privacy Strategist, Microsoft,formerly)

Mr W. Peter Cullen Speaker Presentation (6.93 Mb Microsoft PowerPoint Presentation)

As corporate privacy officer, Peter Cullen managed the RBC Financial Group’s privacy program. He was responsibility for overall co-ordination, strategic initiatives, development and application of customer privacy concepts, and implementation of information practices and policies.

Born in Cambridge, England on July 24, 1958, Cullen joined the bank in Montreal in November 1976, transferring to Vancouver in May 1978. He has an extensive retail banking background, at both the field and head office levels, including customer service and operations, human resources and branch operations and training. His most recent posting included responsibility for customer loyalty where he championed initiatives to drive customer commitment.

Cullen has a Master of Business Administration from Richard Ivey School of Business (University of Western Ontario).