Parallel Session 6
" A Safe and Open Society: the role of privacy regulators"

Mr Joseph Meade
(Data Protection Commissioner, Ireland)

Mr Joseph Meade Speaker Presentation (112Kb Microsoft PowerPoint Presentation)

Mr Joseph ( Joe ) Meade was appointed for a five year term as Data Protection Commissioner in September 2000. Mr Meade a native of Co. Clare was born in 1950 and is married with three children.

Mr Mead has wide experience in the Irish and international public services. Key positions he has held include Secretary General, Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General (the State Auditor) from 1967, European Court of Auditors in Luxembourg (1993-94), member (1997-1999) and Chairperson (2000) Audit Commission of the European Space Agency in Paris, and member (1999), Referendum Commission in Ireland.

He graduated in 1974 with a business and finance degree from University College Dublin

Parallel Session 6
" A Safe and Open Society: the role of privacy regulators"

Prof. Graham Greenleaf
(University of New South Wales, Australia)

Prof. Graham Greenleaf Speaker Presentation (540Kb Microsoft PowerPoint Presentation)

Graham Greenleaf is a Professor of Law at the University of New South Wales, where he specialises in the relationships between law and information technology, and Co-Director of the Baker & McKenzie Cyberspace Law and Policy Centre. He has been involved in privacy issues since 1975, when he was the first staff member of the NSW Privacy Committee, the world's third privacy agency. Ten years ago he founded Privacy Law & Policy Reporter, and is its General Editor. He is a convenor of the Asia-Pacific Privacy Charter Council, a group of over 30 regional non-government privacy experts. Current research interests include the complaint reporting practices (or lack thereof) of Privacy Commissioners, the relationships between copyright and privacy, and regional privacy standards vs lowest common denominators.

Parallel Session 6
" A Safe and Open Society: the role of privacy regulators"

Mr Jeff Tunks Speaker Presentation (37.5 Kb Microsoft PowerPoint Presentation)

Plenary Session D “ Identity and Privacy: who wants to know and why?”

Ms Carol Coye Benson
(Partner, Glenbrook Partners, United States of America)

Ms Carol Coye Benson Speaker Presentation (826 Kb Microsoft PowerPoint Presentation)

Ms Benson is a partner with Glenbrook Partners, a research and advisory firm that helps companies leverage the electronic delivery of financial services, with particular focus on payments, digital identity, and authentication. An expert in authentication systems, Ms Benson speaks frequently on topics including authentication, identity theft, and privacy.

Ms Benson’s background is in product development, marketing and strategy for physical world and Internet-based financial services companies variously in the US and Internationally. She has held management responsibility for corporate cash management, EDI, new monetary system development, payment security and authentication, credit cards, database marketing, smart cards, and securities processing at Deutsche Bank, Banker’s Trust, Visa International, and Citibank.

Plenary Session D "Identity and Privacy: who wants to know and why?"

Mr Tim Dixon
(Consultant, Baker & McKenzie, Australia)

Mr Tim Dixon Speaker Presentation (3.74 Mb Microsoft PowerPoint Presentation)

Tim Dixon has worked on privacy issues in Australia since the late 1980s in government, the private sector, in policy organisations and as a lawyer. He is a consultant with global law firm, Baker & McKenzie and has worked with clients across a wide range of industry sectors since 1999. Tim is the author of the legal loose leaf service on Australian privacy law published by CCH. Between 1993 and 2002 Tim was the Director and subsequently Chairman of the Australian Privacy Foundation. Tim has held a range of Commonwealth and state government appointments on privacy advisory bodies and has taught on privacy issues in several Australian universities.

Plenary Session D "Identity and Privacy: who wants to know and why?"

Ms Jennie Granger
(Second Commissioner, Australian Taxation Office, Australia)

Ms Jennie Granger Speaker Presentation (132Kb Microsoft PowerPoint Presentation)

Parallel Session 7 "Communicating important privacy information - issues, and recent initiatives aimed at doing this more effectively"

Mr Marty Abrams
(Hunton & Williams, United States of America)

Mr Marty Abrams Speaker Presentation ( 485 Kb Microsoft PowerPoint Presentation)

Mr. Abrams leads the Center for Information Policy Leadership at Hunton & Williams and shapes digital-age global privacy concepts by providing thought leadership for companies, consumer leaders and policy makers. As Senior Policy Advisor to Hunton & Williams' Privacy and Information Management Practice, Mr. Abrams provides clients with total solution strategic business consulting on all aspects of information policy, security, and privacy . He advises chief privacy officers and other senior executives with the development of values-oriented global information management strategies for customer, consumer and employee information. He has expertise with corporate values development, industry best practices, and he works closely with firm attorneys to develop and implement comprehensive compliance programs for financial privacy regulations, the EU Data Protection Directive and Safe Harbor requirements, and the Fair Credit Reporting Act.

Mr. Abrams leads the Center's Notices, Pattern Analysis and CRM projects, and has been deeply involved in the Global Solutions and Authentication projects. He regularly meets with policy leaders to discuss the evolution of information policy and with policy implementers to assist them in understanding how information markets work.

Mr. Abrams actively participates in national and international forums on privacy policy. He currently serves on the advisory committee for the International Data Protection Conference to be held in Sydney in September 2003. He has previously served in leadership roles on the Information Industry Association's Public Policy & Government Relations Council, the US Internet Alliance, Individual Reference Services Group, Coalition on Sensible Public Records Access, Better Business Bureau Online Privacy Steering Committee, Florida State Task Force on Technology & Privacy, Direct Marketing Association Privacy Committee, Associated Credit Bureaus Privacy Committee, , the Coalition of Services Trans Border Data Flow Task Force, and he chaired the Intelligent Highways and Vehicles Systems of America Privacy Committee. Mr. Abrams is a frequent speaker on privacy and information policy topics.

Prior to joining Hunton & Williams, Mr. Abrams served as Vice President of Information Policy and Privacy at Experian, where he led the company's global fair information practices programs and developed the values approach to privacy.

Parallel Session 7 "Communicating important privacy information - issues, and recent initiatives aimed at doing this more effectively"

Mr Rigo Wenning
(W3C/ERCIM, France)

Mr Rigo Wenning (28 Kb Microsoft WordPresentation)

Rigo Wenning holds german and french law degrees. Before joining W3C, he worked as a researcher at the Institute for computing and law at Saarland University (Germany) and was one of the project leaders to bring the German Federal Constitutional Court online. He was part of the team of germans biggest law portal online (JIPS).

He is W3C's Privacy Activity Lead overseeing P3P and related privacy activities. He is also responsible for european standardization liaisons and has worked in the area of electronic signatures. Additionally, he is doing legal analysis for W3C.

Parallel Session 7 "Communicating important privacy information - issues, and recent initiatives aimed at doing this more effectively"

Ms Dale Skivington
(Eastman Kodak Company, United States of America)

Ms Dale Skivington Speaker Presentation ( 164 Kb Microsoft PowerPoint Presentation)

Dale E. Skivington is Kodak's Chief Privacy Officer and as such has worldwide responsibility for company policies relating to consumer, employee and supplier privacy. She is also a member of the Employment and Personnel Law Legal Staff at Kodak. She is on the board of the International Association of Privacy Professionals. She chaired the New York State Business Council's Labor and Human Resources committee. She also served on the New York Governor's Task Force on Independent Contractors and on the Governor's Task Force on Sexual Harassment. Prior to joining Kodak, she was in private practice litigating civil rights and personal injury matters, and an Assistant Attorney General for the State of New York. She has had two assignments in Europe for Kodak. She joined the Company in 1988.

Ms. Skivington has also lectured on privacy and various civil rights and employment law matters. She was an adjunct faculty member of the State University of New York at Brockport, an instructor at the Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations and a lecturer at the Simon School at the University of Rochester, Teachers College at Columbia University, North Carolina State University's School of Management, the Equal Employment Advisory Council, Privacy and American Business, the American Corporate Counsel Association and the International Association of Privacy Professionals. She is a past president of the Board of the Legal Aid Society of Rochester and served on the County Bar President's Commission on the Access to Justice. She has served on the boards of the Monroe County Bar Association, Monroe County Bar Foundation, Greater Rochester Association of Women Attorneys, the Women's Health Partnership and various community organizations.

Ms. Skivington is a graduate of the State University College at Potsdam and the Albany Law School.

Parallel Session 7 "Communicating important privacy information - issues, and recent initiatives aimed at doing this more effectively"

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

Mr Cedric Laurant Speaker Presentation (24Kb Microsoft Word Presentation)

Parallel Session 8
" Is my privacy the same as your privacy?"

Ms Dawn Casey
(Director, National Museum of Australia, Australia)

Ms Dawn Casey Paper (53Kb Microsoft Word Presenation)

Prior to her appointment as Director of the National Museum of Australia in 1999.
Ms Casey was Chief General Manager of the Acton Peninsula Project Task Force, the body responsible for the construction of the new National Museum.

Ms Casey has wide-ranging experience in the management of indigenous and cultural heritage policy issues. As a member of the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet, she was responsible for the establishment of the Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation.

She has provided policy advice on issues associated with Australia's national cultural institutions and served as Chair of the Heritage Collections Committee, the body with responsibility for implementing specific programs to address issues of collection management, preservation and conservation, research and documentation, and access.

Ms Casey has received three Commonwealth Public Service Australia Day Medals.

Parallel Session 8
" Is my privacy the same as your privacy?"

Prof. David Weisbrot
(President, Australian Law Reform Commission, Australia)

Prof. David Weisbrot Speaker Presentation ( 1.85 Mb Microsoft PowerPoint Presentation)

Professor David Weisbrot has been President of the Australian Law Reform Commission (ALRC) since June 1999. Among other things, he has chaired the ALRC's inquiry into the Protection of Human Genetic Information (conducted in association with the Australian Health Ethics Committee of the NHMRC) and the Attorney-General's National Task Force on Pro Bono Legal Services. Prior to joining the ALRC, Professor Weisbrot was Dean of Law and then Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Sydney. He has also held a number of appointments in Papua New Guinea, Fiji and other parts of the Pacific Islands.

Parallel Session 8
" Is my privacy the same as your privacy?"

Ms Sally Sinclair
(Chief Executive Officer, National Employment Services Association, Australia)

Ms Sally Sinclair Speaker Presentation ( 344 Kb Microsoft PowerPoint Presentation)

Sally Sinclair is CEO of NESA, the peak body covering the Employment Services Industry in Australia. NESA represents both not-for-profit and profit organisations providing employment services, including the Job Network, on behalf of Federal and State Governments. Ms Sinclair has extensive experience in the design and delivery of employment services frameworks, and has held numerous industry and government appointments including as a Board Member of the Employment Services Regulatory Authority (ESRA), Member of the Employment Services Industry Reference Group, and the inaugural Chair of NESA.

As CEO of NESA, Ms Sinclair has led substantial improvements in the professionalism and quality approaches taken by the employment services industry in assisting job seekers to find work. Under her stewardship, NESA has grown to be a major voice in advocating on behalf of the industry and NESA is the first point of call for Government and others seeking the views of this growing sector. NESA has been instrumental in advocating the importance of privacy protection among its members who routinely handle a large amount of personal data, which is mostly of a sensitive nature. NESA regularly provides privacy training and advice to its members.

Parallel Session 9
" Identity: now you see it, now you don't"

Mr Ken Anderson
(Director of Legal Services, Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario, Canada)

Mr Ken Anderson Speaker Presentation (4.17 Mb Microsoft PowerPoint Presentation)

Ken Anderson is the Director of Legal Services for the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario based in Toronto. Ken is a frequent speaker on access & privacy issues, and he teaches privacy law for the University of Ottawa. Before joining the IPC, Ken was the Commissioner of Legal Services for two large regional municipalities in Ontario. He began his legal career with a litigation law firm in Ottawa, and later focused on administrative and public law. Ken received degrees in both law and business administration from the University of Western Ontario.