Contacts

Media Enquiries may be directed to any Board Member, but initial contact is preferred with the following:

• Chair – (Dr) Roger Clarke – (02) 6288 1472
• Vice-Chair - David Vaile – 0414 731 249
• Vice-Chair - Dan Svantesson – (07) 5595 1418
• Nigel Waters – (02) 4981 0828 or 0407 230 342
• (Prof) Graham Greenleaf – (02) 9569 5310

General Email to enquiries@privacy.org.au; or to the appropriate Office-Bearer below.

The Board strongly prefers all communications to be by electronic means, i.e. email or phone. If it is essential to send hard-copy materials by regular post / 'snail mail' or courier, please contact the relevant Board Member and ask them for an appropriate address to send it to.

Bruce Arnold

(02) 6201 2710

Bruce has a background in innovative aspects of intellectual property law, and has been a consultant in digital technologies business analysis and regulatory matters. He is currently a Lecturer in Law at the University of Canberra, has a Masters degree in law and is completing a doctorate on the nature of legal identity. He is widely published, and is currently General Editor of the LexisNexis Privacy Law Bulletin.

(Dr) David Lindsay

(03) 9905 5547

David is an Associate Professor in the Law Faculty at Monash University. In addition to working in privacy law, he has conducted research across a range of areas adjacent to the APF's areas of interest and serves on a relevant Law Council committee.

(Dr) Julie Cameron

Julie Cameron is a foundation member of the APF, was the convenor of the Australian Privacy Charter Council and an APF Board member in 2002-03. Since 1986 she has worked with the International Federation for Information Processing on issues related to the impact of ICT on the community. Her career includes executive roles in the government and private sectors, and ICT consultancy. Julie is currently managing director of Info.T.EC Solutions Pty Ltd. Her PhD is in computer science and engineering

(Dr) Katina Michael – VICE-CHAIR

(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

Peter Clarke

(03) 9225 8751

Peter is a barrister practising in the area of commercial, equity, defamation and privacy law. He has worked on privacy issues in the public service prior to coming to the Victorian Bar. He first became interested in privacy in 1988 when working for a member of the Federal Parliament and was involved in framing a response to the Privacy Bill 1988. He writes on privacy on his website at www.peteraclarke.com.au.

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

(Dr) Roger Clarke – CHAIR

(02) 6288 6916

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

Mark Walkom

Mark is a seasoned systems administrator and IT Operations Manager, based in Sydney. He has expertise in data security, including firewalls and Virtual Private Networks, and a strong interest in the privacy impacts of insecure IT. He is also active in the Systems Administrators Guilde (SAGE-AU). See his LinkedIn Bio.

(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

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

(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

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

Kimberley Heitman

0439 938 233

Kimberley Heitman is a Perth lawyer and joined the Board in 2012. He is the President of the Society of University Lawyers and has formerly held executive office in a number of commercial and volunteer Internet organisations including Electronic Frontiers Australia. His personal website is www.kheitman.com

Pia Waugh

0400 966 453

Pia Waugh is an open government and open data ninja, working within the machine to enable greater transparency, democratic engagement, citizen-centric design and real, pragmatic actual innovation in the public sector and beyond. She believes that tech culture has a huge role to play in achieving better policy planning, outcomes, public engagement and a better public service all round. She is also trying to do her part in establishing greater public benefit from publicly funded data, software and research. Read more at http://pipka.org/standard-bio