Contacts

(Dr) Roger Clarke – CHAIR

(02) 6288 1472

Roger is a consultant focussing on strategic and policy aspects of eBusiness, information infrastructure, and dataveillance and privacy, working through his own company, Xamax Consultancy. He has a long list of both formal and informal publications, and has been a Visiting Professor at universities in Australia and overseas. He has been an active privacy advocate since 1972, an active privacy researcher since 1975, an active privacy consultant since 1977, and a Board member of APF since its inception in 1987. In 2009, he was awarded only the second-ever Australian Privacy Medal

Chris Connolly

0414 938 942

Chris is a long-time privacy and consumer advocate, and a former Chair of the Consumers' Federation of Australia. His areas of interest include electronic commerce, financial services and new technologies

(Dr) Juanita Fernando

(03) 9905 8537 or 0408 131 535

Juanita is a lecturer with the Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences at Monash University. She undertook her doctorate with the Faculty of Information Technology at Monash University. Her research concerns medical informatics and information security. She has developed a particular emphasis on e-health tools and their contribution to work-flow methodologies in the health sector

(Prof) Graham Greenleaf

(02) 9569 5310 (h)

Graham is Professor at Law at UNSW. He is co-director of the Australasian Legal Information Institute (AustLII) and the World Legal Information Insitute (WorldLII), and co-director of UNSW's Cyberspace Law and Policy Centre. He is also one of the convenors of the Asia-Pacific Privacy Charter Council. He was the founder of Privacy Law & Policy Reporterand is now the Asia-Pacific Editor of Privacy Laws & Business International Newsletter

(Dr) Usman Iqbal

0425 393 098

Usman works as a Geospatial Consultant at http://www.omnilink.com.au/. Usman has a PhD from the School of Surveying and Spatial Information Systems, The University of New South Wales (UNSW) in 2009. His thesis topic was ‘Location Privacy in Automotive Telematics’ where he sought an understanding of ‘locational privacy’ and the importance of designing privacy-respecting technology solutions. He also holds a Masters and Bachelors degree in Computer Science

(Dr) Katina Michael

(02) 4221 3937 (w) or 0431 201 172

Katina Michael is an Associate Professor in the School of Information Systems and Technology at the University of Wollongong, and a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). She received a Bachelor of Information Technology degree from the University of Technology, Sydney (UTS) in 1996 and a Ph.D. degree in information technology and communications from the University of Wollongong in 2003. Before joining academia in 2002, she worked as a senior network and business planner at Nortel Networks

Lindy Smith

Lindy has been operating as a privacy consultant in Melbourne since 1998, through her company Privacy Management. Before then, she was Director of Policy for the Federal Privacy Commissioner for four years

(Dr) Dan Svantesson – VICE-CHAIR

(07) 5595 1418

Dan is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law, Bond University. He specialises in international aspects of the IT society, and has a strong interest in privacy law

David Vaile – VICE-CHAIR

0414 731 249

David is Executive Director of UNSW's Cyberspace Law and Policy Centre, a research and policy centre dealing with public interest issues arising from networked transactions and the Internet. The Centre and its research associates engage with a range of privacy-related issues. He has also worked at the Office of the Federal Privacy Commissioner and Privacy NSW, and with a range of other organisations including legal services and online content developers

Nigel Waters – PUBLIC OFFICER

(02) 4981 0828 or 0407 230 342

Nigel has been a member of APF since 1997, and of the Australian Privacy Charter Council from 1992 until it was absorbed by the Foundation. Former Deputy Federal Privacy Commissioner (1989-97) and Assistant UK Data Protection Registrar (1985-89). Before that a wholly unrelated career and blithely unaware of privacy as an issue! Since 1997, independent consultant on privacy to public and private organizations as principal of Pacific Privacy Consulting. Associate Editor of Privacy Law & Policy Reporter, Visiting Fellow at UNSW Law School and occasional contributor to the media on privacy issues

Matthew Watts – SECRETARY

0409 017 891

Matthew is based in Canberra with over ten years’ public service experience, including the administration of privacy law. Matthew was a candidate in the 2008 ACT Legislative Assembly election and is a member of the Australian Institute of Administrative Law, the Institute of Public Administration Australia, the Australian Institute of Management and Electronic Frontiers Australia. He is a Justice of the Peace and holds a Masters in Public Policy

Jan Whitaker – TREASURER

0403 209 448

Jan is an IT consultant in Melbourne. She is currently tutoring in the Computer Professional Education Program and Professional Year program of the Australian Computer Society. Her interests in privacy span the avoidance of the use of IT to exploit people by government and corporate parties, to how privacy regulation should be used to protect the interests of the vulnerable and those with quiet voices in society. Jan has qualifications in Music Education and Educational Technology. She has served on the Community Advisory Committee for Southern Health (Victoria), AUSTRAC Privacy Reference Committee, the editorial committee for "Health Issues", the Community Reference Committee for the Health Privacy Act in Victoria, auDA Domain Name Supplier Code of Practice panel, the Board of Electronic Frontiers Australia, and various conference planning committees