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

Ms Anna Fielder
(Director, Office for Developed and Transition Economies, Consumers International, United Kingdom)

Ms Anna Fielder Speaker Presentation (286 Kb Microsoft PowerPoint Presentation)

As Director, Office for Developed and Transition Economies (ODTE) of Consumers International, Ms Fielder is responsible for the organisation’s work principally in Europe, Middle East and North America. ODTE has initiated important international research policy projects in the area of electronic commerce and sustainable consumption, set up the secretariat and process of the Transatlantic Consumer Dialogue, and is carrying out large-scale development programs in Eastern Europe. Key reports published by ODTE over the past four years include: Consumers@Shopping; Should I Buy; Privacy@net; Disputes in Cyberspace; and Credibility on the Web. ODTE contributed to the OECD Guidelines for Consumer Protection in Electronic Commerce, (1999). Prior to 1996, Anna undertook many consumer investigations and campaigns in her employment with for Consumers Association, UK. She is a graduate of London University, with a BA and a Masters in Classics.

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

Ms Barbara Lawler
(Chief Privacy Officer, Hewlett Packard, United States of America)

Ms Barbara Lawler Speaker Presentation (1.81 Mb Microsoft PowerPoint Presentation)

Barbara Lawler is HP’s Chief Privacy Officer, with over 21 years experience at Hewlett Packard. She is responsible for global online and offline privacy strategy, policy and standards creation to “make privacy real” at HP. The HP privacy strategy includes governance, compliance assessment, education, communication, consumer outreach and public policy influence. She has been the driver for implementing customer-friendly privacy policies and practices within HP, helping HP to become a recognized leader in customer privacy. She drove the creation of the global employee data privacy program and the creation of the Privacy Office in the new HP.

Barb speaks about HP's privacy strategy and best practices with industry forums, public policy groups and legislators and has published papers on ethics-driven privacy management. She has testified before the U.S. Congress and Senate about HP’s industry-leading privacy practices and is a guest lecturer at the Hass School of Business at Berkeley, California. Barb is a member of the BBBOnLine Board of Directors, the International Association of Privacy Practitioners (IAPP), the Conference Board Council of Chief Privacy Officers and the WiredKids Advisory Board. During her HP career, she has held a number of management positions in direct marketing, field marketing, channel marketing, and data management. Barb is a graduate of San Jose State University with a B.S. in Business with concentration in Business Law, and minors in Advertising and Marketing Communications.

Parallel Session 3
" Technology: supporting a culture of privacy in your organisation"

Dr Brian Richards
(Chief Information Officer, Health Insurance Commission, Australia)

Dr Brian Richards Speaker Presentation ( 534 Kb Microsoft PowerPoint Presentation)

Dr Brian Richards Paper ( 67 Kb Microsoft Word Presentation)

Dr Brian Richards, as Chief Information Officer, Health Insurance Commission (HIC), Brian is responsible for developing HIC’s information strategies, including ensuring the privacy and security of personal information held by HIC, and has played a key role in the introduction of Public Key Infrastructure to safeguard information transmitted via the Internet. The HIC administers a range of national health programs in Australia including Medicare (universal health insurance scheme), the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (subsidising a wide range of medicines), and the Australian Organ Donor Register.

Current and previous experience: Member, National Electronic Health Records Taskforce, which published a major report on a national system of electronic health records (HealthConnect); Medical Practitioner; Senior Executive and Leadership roles in health policy, health service administration, health financing, professional training and regulation, and in the introduction of ICT into health care.

Parallel Session 3
"Technology: supporting a culture of privacy in your organisation"

Mr Charles Britton
(Senior Policy Officer, IT and Communications, Australian Consumers’ Association, Australia)

Mr Charles Britton Speaker Presentation ( 104 Kb Microsoft PowerPoint Presentation)

Mr Charles Britton Paper ( 83 Kb Microsoft Word Presentation)

Charles Britton works with the Australian Consumers’ Association (ACA) as Senior Policy Officer, IT and Communications. As Policy Officer Charles prepares ACA policy positions, then campaigns and advocates to Government, industry and in the media to achieve better outcomes for consumers. Charles has a career background in ICT with various organisations, ranging from large listed companies to small community organisations.

Charles has a Masters Degree in Sociology from Canterbury University (NZ) and a Master of Commerce from UNSW.

Parallel Session 3
" Technology: supporting a culture of privacy in your organisation"

Ms Harriet P. Pearson
(Vice President, Workforce Effectiveness & Chief Privacy Officer IBM Corporation, United States of America)

Ms Harriet P. Pearson Speaker Presentation ( 4.58 Mb Microsoft PowerPoint Presentation)

Harriet Pearson was named IBM’s Human Resources Vice President for Workforce Effectiveness in May 2002. She retains the responsibilities of the Chief Privacy Officer, to which she was appointed in November 2000. In this expanded role, Pearson leads a team of HR professionals who are responsible for creating the HR strategy and the metrics that will ensure the company has the top talent it needs to compete and that employees have a work climate that facilitates their effectiveness, productivity, and well being.

As Chief Privacy Officer, she is responsible for guiding information collection and use policies and practices across the company, and spearheads a company-wide privacy management team within IBM. Pearson unifies, on a global basis, the many privacy projects and programs underway across IBM, including research and development, marketing/sales, IBM’s Web strategy, and our technology and policy efforts.

Prior to being named CPO, Pearson was Director of Public Affairs for IBM’s Governmental Programs group. She has played a key role in the U.S. Private sector’s drive to address online privacy, including the formation of the Online Privacy Alliance and the Better Business Bureau’s Online Privacy Program. She is active with a number of associations and organizations, including serving on the Boards of the International Association of Privacy Professionals and TRUSTe. She is also a frequent speaker at conferences and other business events, and in 2001 testified before the U.S. Congress.

In June 2001 Pearson was awarded Working Woman’s first-ever W.E.S.T. (Women Elevating Science & Technology) Award and was profiled as a “Best Thinker” in the April 2001 edition of Fast Company magazine.

Pearson practiced law in Washington, D.C. before joining IBM in 1993, and before attending law school worked as an engineer for a major oil company in Louisiana and Texas. Born and raised in New York City, she holds a law degree from UCLA with highest honors and an honors engineering degree from Princeton University.

Plenary Session C “A Safe and Open Society”

The Hon. Nuala O’Connor Kelly
(Chief Privacy Officer, Department of Homeland Security, United States of America)

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Nuala O'Connor Kelly was appointed Chief Privacy Officer of the Department of Homeland Security by Secretary Ridge on April 16, 2003. In this capacity, O'Connor Kelly is responsible for privacy compliance
across the organization, including assuring that the technologies sustain, and do not erode, privacy protections relating to the use, collection, and disclosure of personal information. The privacy office is also responsible for compliance with the Privacy Act and for evaluating legislative and regulatory proposals involving collection, use, and disclosure of personal information by the Federal Government.

Prior to her service at the Department of Homeland Security, O'Connor Kelly served as Chief Privacy Officer at the U.S. Department of Commerce. While at Commerce, O'Connor Kelly also served as Chief Counsel for Technology, and as Deputy Director of the Office of Policy and Strategic Planning.

Prior to her service in the Bush Administration, Ms. O'Connor Kelly served as Vice President-Data Protection and Chief Privacy Officer for Emerging Technologies of the online media services company, DoubleClick. O'Connor Kelly helped found the company's first data protection department and was responsible for the creation of privacy and data protection policies and procedures throughout the company and for the company's clients and partners. O'Connor Kelly also served as the company's first deputy general counsel for privacy.

Ms. O'Connor Kelly practiced law with the firms of Sidley & Austin, Hudson Cook, and Venable, Baetjer, Howard & Civiletti in Washington, D.C. She is a member of the bar in Washington, D.C. and Maryland.
O'Connor Kelly received her A.B. from Princeton University, a master's of education from Harvard University, and J.D. from the Georgetown University Law Center.

Plenary Session C “A Safe and Open Society”

Mr Cédric Laurant
(Policy Counsel, Electronic Privacy Information Center, United States of America)

Mr Cédric Laurant Speaker Presentation (301 Kb Microsoft PowerPoint Presentation)

Cédric Laurant is Policy Counsel with the Electronic Privacy Information Center. He concentrates on international privacy issues and comparative policy and legal aspects of European and US privacy regimes. He recently supervised the production the 2003 edition of Privacy and Human Rights, an international survey of privacy laws and developments in the world.

Cédric holds a licence en droit from the University of Louvain (Belgium), a Master of Laws from Columbia University School of Law (New York), and a European Master of Arts in Science, Technology and Society (Louvain-la-Neuve, Namur and London).

Parallel Session 4
" Legal Issues: open justice forgiveness, compassion, context, proportionality”

Prof. Dennis Pearce AO
(Emeritus Professor, Australian National University, former Chairman, Australian Press Council, Australia)

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Dennis Pearce is an Emeritus Professor and has been a Visiting Fellow in the Faculty of Law, Australian National University since 1996. He was a member of the Law Faculty from 1968 to 1996 and was, at various times Dean of the Law School. He was made an Officer in the Order of Australia in 2003.

Dennis was the Chairman of the Australian Press Council from 1997 –2000 and in that capacity was involved in the resolution of complaints claiming breach of privacy and also in the policy issues relating to the impact of privacy law on the press.

Dennis was the Commonwealth Ombudsman from 1988-1991 and the Chair of the Copyright Law Review Committee from 1996 to 2000. In addition to his Faculty commitments, Dennis is presently a Special Counsel to Phillips Fox, Lawyers, President of the ACT Racing Appeals Tribunal, President of the ACT Cricket Association Independent Tribunal and a member of the Copyright Tribunal.

Parallel Session 4
" Legal Issues: open justice forgiveness, compassion, context, proportionality”

Prof. Marcia Neave AO
(Law Reform Commissioner, Victorian Law Reform Commission, Australia)

Marcia Neave is the Chairperson of the Victorian Law Reform Commission. She is currently on leave from Monash University where she holds a personal chair in the Law Faculty. The VLRC has received a reference from the Attorney-General to examine laws affecting privacy in the workplace.

Professor Neave is a graduate of the University of Melbourne and a fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia. She has formerly held a Chair in the Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University, and was the John Bray Professor of Law at Adelaide University and the Dean of the Adelaide Law School from 1987-1989. Professor Neave was President of the Commonwealth Administrative Review Council from 1995-1999. She has been a part-time Commissioner of the New South Wales Law Reform Commission.

Prof. Marcia Neave AO Paper (64 Kb Microsoft Word Presentation)

Parallel Session 4
" Legal Issues: open justice forgiveness, compassion, context, proportionality”

Prof. Iain Currie
(University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg)

Prof. Iain Currie Speaker Presentation ( 88 Kb Microsoft PowerPoint Presentation)

Iain Currie is Professor of Law at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg and is a co-director of the University's Research Unit for Law & Administration (RULA). The Unit has been closely involved in recent law-reform initiatives in South Africa in the fields of administrative law, freedom of information and privacy. Iain is a co-author of books on the South African Bill of Rights, on constitutional and administrative law and on South Africa's new Access to Information Act. He is currently a member of the South African Law Reform Commission's research and legislative drafting project on Privacy and Data Protection.

Parallel Session 5
“ Law enforcement with respect”

Christine Page-Hanify, BSc FAICD
(Senior Business Consultant, Teradata, a Division of NCR)

Christine is a Senior Business Consultant with Teradata and has over 30 years experience in the information technology industry in both the public and private sectors. In the previous twelve years she has held executive CIO positions including the General Manager of the Parliamentary Information Systems Office in Canberra, the Director of Information Services and Deputy Principal at the University of New South Wales as well as CEO of Access OnLine CMC. She has a technical background in business analysis, programming, project management and training; and a management focus on strategic planning, organisational change, policy (including privacy and security) and infrastructure development.

Parallel Session 5
“ Law enforcement with respect”

Mr Cameron Murphy
(President, NSW Council for Civil Liberties, Australia)

Parallel Session 5
“ Law enforcement with respect”

Ms Florence Audubert
(Attachée Juridique, Interpol, France)

Ms Florence Audubert Speaker Presentation (41Kb Microsoft Word Presentation)

Ms Florence Audubert Speaker Presentation (18 Kb PDF Presentation)