About PI - International Advisory Board

16/12/2009

Every year we hold a General Meeting of all of the members of Privacy International. Our 'members' are all on our advisory board. They are appointed upon being vetted by the Trustees and the AGM after a nomination process.

Privacy International's Advisory Board currently has 90 members from 40 countries. Their professions vary widely, and range from Parliamentarians to former government officials, from academics to civil liberties advocates, consumer rights specialists to corporate and legal consultants. Specifically because our Advisory Board consists of such a broad spectrum of interests and expertise, PI is able to successfully engage in a number of issues in a variety of countries.

Our members play a number of roles for our organisation:
1. We maintain an active discussion with our advisory board about our activities and projects and seek their comments;
2. Every year we meet to discuss upcoming issues and decide on areas of common interest for PI's activities for the coming year;
3. Some members play active roles in our campaigns and research, contributing to the substance of our work.

ARGENTINA

Eduardo Bertoni
Director, Due Process of Law Foundation
Formerly the Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Expression
of the Inter-American Commission of Human Rights
at the Organization of American States

Professor Carlos G. Gregorio,
Researcher and Professor of law,
IIJusticia & University Torcuato di Tella,

Pablo Palazzi
Attorney
and Founder of Foro de Habeas Data

AUSTRALIA

Dr Jason Catlett
Privacy and Consumer Expert

Professor Roger Clarke
Visiting Professor
Baker & McKenzie Cyberspace Law & Policy Centre,
University of New South Wales

Nigel Waters
Board member
The Australian Privacy Foundation

AUSTRIA

Erich Moechel
Director, Quintessenz

BANGLADESH

Ahmed Swapan Mahmud
Executive director and founder of VOICE

BRAZIL

Dr Carlos Alfonso
Director
Information Network for the Third Sector

BULGARIA

Gergana Jouleva
Executive Director
Access to Information Programme

CANADA

Dr David Flaherty
Professor Emeritus,
University of Western Ontario

Philippa Lawson
Barrister & Solicitor
Whitehorse, Yukon

Micheal Vonn
Policy Director
British Columbia Civil Liberties Association

CHILE

Antonino Serra Cambaceres
Coordinador Programa Legal, Consumers International

CZECH REPUBLIC

Marek Tichy
Technology consultant
Iuridicum Remedium

DENMARK

Stephan Engberg
Director
Open Business Innovation

Rikke Frank Joergensen
Senior Advisor
The Danish Institute for Human Rights

ETHIOPIA

Mercy Wambui
ICT Specialist
UN Economic Commission for Africa

FRANCE

Jerome Thorel
Journalist

Kim Cameron
Chief Architect of Identity and Distinguished Engineer
Microsoft

GERMANY

Dr Detlef Nogala
Kriminologische Forschungsgruppe
Max-Planck-Institut

HONG KONG

Anne S. Y. Cheung
Associate Professor
Department of Law, University of Hong Kong

HUNGARY

Dr Zoltan Galantai
Associate Professor
Budapest University of Technology and Economics

Kristina Irion
Assistant Professor
Department of Public Policy, Central European University

Laszlo Majtényi
Chairman, Eötvös Károly Public Policy Institute

Dr Ivan Szekelyi
Counsellor
Open Society Archives at
Central European University

INDIA

Rajan Gandhi
Founder and Managing Trustee of Society in Action Group (SAG)
Haryana Province

Vickram Crishna
Mumbai

IRELAND

TJ McIntyre
Lecturer in the School of Law
University College Dublin

ISRAEL

Professor Ruth Gavison
President
Association for Civil Rights in Israel

ITALY

Dr Diego Latella
Researcher
Italian National Research Council

Andrea Monti
ALCIA

Professor Stefano Rodota
Privacy Expert and former President of the Italian privacy authority
and former chair of the European Commission's Article 29 Working Party

Professor Raymond Wacks
International Privacy Expert

JAPAN

Yukiko Miki
Information Clearinghouse Japan

Professor Toshimaru Ogura
Department of Economics
Toyama University

Gohsuke Takama
President, Meta Associates

MALAYSIA

Stephen Gan
Editor-in-Chief
Malaysiakini

Gayathry Venkiteswaran
Executive Director
Center for Independent Journalism

MEXICO

Issa Luna Pla
UNAM

THE NETHERLANDS

Sophie In't Veld
Member of the European Parliament

PAKISTAN

Shahzad Ahmad
Association for Progressive Communications

PERU

Katitza Rodriguez
Director
Privaterra

PHILIPPINES

Al Alegre
Executive Director
The Foundation for Media Alternatives (FMA)

Malou Mangahas
Board member
Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism

RUSSIA

Sergei Smirnov
Director
Human Rights Network

SERBIA

Slobodan Markovic
President,
Center for Internet Development

SLOVENIA

Breda Kutin
Director, Slovene Consumer Association

SOUTH AFRICA

Anriette Esterhuysen
Director
Association for Progressive Communications

Dr Tracy Cohen
Former Councillor, Independent Communications Authority (ICASA)

SOUTH KOREA

Della Chang
Director, Jimbonet

SPAIN

Rafael Fernandez Calvo
Editor, Novática

SWEDEN

Dr Alberto Escudero-Pascual
IT46

SWITZERLAND

Dr Herbert Burkert
Professor of law
University of St. Gallen


TURKEY

Dr Yaman Akdeniz,
Director, Cyber-Rights and Cyber-Liberties

UKRAINE

Andreij Pazuk
President, Privacy Ukraine

Roman Romanov
Chairman of the Rule of Law Committee
National Commission for the Strengthening of Democracy and the Rule of Law

UNITED KINGDOM

Phil Booth
Director, No2ID

Caspar Bowden
Privacy specialist, Microsoft, EMEA

Heather Brooke
Independent FOI Advisor

Dr Ian Brown
Oxford Internet Institute

Tony Bunyan
Editor, Statewatch

Shami Chakrabarti
Director
Liberty

Daniel Cooper
Partner
Covington & Burling

Terri Dowty
Policy Director
Action on Rights for Children,

Anna Fielder
Consumer Advocate and Campaigner

Jo Glanville
Editor
Index on Censorship

Wendy Grossman
Journalist & author

Malcolm Hutty
Policy Manager
London Internet Exchange

Dave Jones
Indymedia

Earl of Northesk
House of Lords

Peter Noorlander
Media Defence Initiative

Mark Thomas
Producer and Political Comedian

Judith Vidal-Hall
Former Editor of Index on Censorship

Helen Wallace
Director
Genewatch UK

Dr Edgar Whitley
Reader
The London School of Economics

UNITED STATES

Bob Barr
President and CEO of Liberty Strategies

Professor Noam Chomsky
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Caroline Fredrickson
Executive Director
The American Constitution Society for Law and Policy

Beth Givens
Director
Privacy Rights Clearinghouse

Dr Deborah Hurley
Senior Research Associate
Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University

Bruce Koball
Technology consultant

Wayne Madsen
independent investigative journalist

Marc Rotenberg
Executive Director
Electronic Privacy Information Center

Dr Barbara Simons
Past President of the Association for Computing Machinery

Robert Ellis Smith
Publisher, Privacy Journal

Jay Stanley
Public Education Director
Technology and Liberty Program
American Civil Liberties Union

Barry Steinhardt
Privacy expert

URUGUAY

Ms. Sylvia Cadena
consultant and researcher
ICTs for development

VENEZUELA

Professor Edmundo Vitale
General Manager,
Fundación Escuela Latinoamericana de Redes

<h3>Past members and Patrons</h3>
<p>We are very sad to announce that our former advisory board member Harold Pinter passed away on December 24, 2008.

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