Drew McArthur retired from TELUS in 2007 as Vice President Corporate Affairs and Chief Compliance Officer. As Chief Compliance Officer, Drew was responsible for legal and regulatory compliance for all of TELUS’ operations, reporting to the Audit Committee of the Board of Directors. The responsibilities of this role included ensuring TELUS had the appropriate controls, policies and measurements in place to be compliant with many areas of law and regulation. Drew played a key role in the privacy community in Canada as a founding member of the Council of Canadian Chief Privacy Officers and a member of the advisory board of the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP). From June 2016 to April 2018, Drew was the Acting Information and Privacy Commissioner for BC, and is now consulting in the area of privacy. He can be contacted at drew.mcarthur@telus.net.

As Vice-President, Chief Privacy and Data Ethics Officer, Suzanne is responsible for overall privacy leadership at Sun Life and its subsidiaries worldwide. Her mandate includes evolving standards for the responsible use of data at Sun Life. Suzanne’s prior roles include leading the legal team in Quebec, compliance for IT and the global code of conduct and whistleblower program. Before joining Sun Life in 2015, Suzanne spent more than 20 years working in the communications industry, for businesses such as Bell Canada and BlackBerry.

A passionate believer in giving back, Suzanne is actively involved with many organizations including the Canadian Bar Association’s National Privacy and Access Law Section, CANON (Canadian Anonymization Network), MediaSmarts (a leader in media and digital literacy), and recently joined Statistics Canada’s Advisory Council on Ethics and Modernization of Microdata Access.

Cory Doctorow (craphound.com) is a science fiction novelist, journalist and technology activist. He is a contributor to many magazines, websites and newspapers. He is a special advisor to the Electronic Frontier Foundation (eff.org), a non-profit civil liberties group that defends freedom in technology law, policy, standards and treaties. He holds an honourary doctorate in laws from York University (Canada) and an honorary doctorate in computer science from the Open University (UK), where he is a Visiting Professor; he is also a Cornell University AD White professor-at-large, a MIT Media Lab Research Affiliate and a Visiting Professor of Practice at the University of North Carolina’s School of Library and Information Science. In 2024, the Media Ecology Association awarded him the Neil Postman Award for Career Achievement in Public Intellectual Activity. In 2022, he earned the Sir Arthur Clarke Imagination in Service to Society Awardee for lifetime achievement. In 2020, he was inducted into the Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame. In 2007, he served as the Fulbright Chair at the Annenberg Center for Public Diplomacy at the University of Southern California.

His novels have been translated into dozens of languages and are published by Tor Books (US), Head of Zeus (UK), Verso Books (UK), Beacon Press (US), SCRIBe (UK), Titan Books (UK) and HarperCollins (UK). He has won the Locus, Prometheus, Copper Cylinder, White Pine and Sunburst Awards, and been nominated for the Hugo, Nebula and British Science Fiction Awards.

He is the author of dozens of books, most recently ENSHITTIFICATION: WHY EVERYTHING SUDDENLY GOT WORSE AND WHAT TO DO ABOUT IT (nonfiction); and the novels PICKS AND SHOVELS and THE BEZZLE (followups to RED TEAM BLUES). Other notable books include the solarpunk novels WALKAWAY and THE LOST CAUSE; the tech policy books THE INTERNET CON and CHOKEPOINT CAPITALISM; and the internationally bestselling YA LITTLE BROTHER series; and the picture book POESY THE MONSTER SLAYER

He maintains a daily blog at Pluralistic.net.

Brent J. Arnold is the founder of Capstan Legal, specializing in cybersecurity and commercial litigation. Brent is a twenty-year Bay Street veteran with extensive experience in litigation and arbitration, appearing in various administrative tribunals and in all levels of court including the Supreme Court of Canada. His experience includes cyber risk analysis, data breach and privacy breach disputes, Web3 (including cryptocurrency and metaverse) and other technology, software and e‑commerce disputes, and general contractual disputes.

Brent is a sought‑after speaker and thought leader in the areas of cybersecurity and privacy, technology, artificial intelligence, Web3, and the modernization of courts. He has appeared on national television and radio programs (including CTV News and CBC’s The National) and been quoted in the Globe & Mail, the Toronto Star, and the Canadian Press.

Brent currently serves as Chair and a director of the Canadian Internet Society, a think tank devoted to ensuring access to a free and safe internet for all Canadians, and hosts its Net Positive podcast. He is also a member of the Canadian Technology Law Association and the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP).

Jennifer Irish is an accomplished former Canadian diplomat and senior international and national security executive, currently serving as an Associate at uOttawa’s Telfer Centre for Executive Leadership, where she directs its security and intelligence programming. She is the Founding Director of uOttawa’s Information Integrity Lab, advancing the understanding, analysis and mitigation of disinformation, misinformation and foreign influence operations.

Over a distinguished 36-year career in Canada’s foreign service and security community, Ms. Irish served in five international postings and held senior roles addressing national and international security, foreign affairs, humanitarian crises, and climate change. She further honed her expertise leading intelligence assessment and geostrategic analysis as Director General of the Integrated Threat Assessment Centre and as Director of Operations at the Intelligence Assessment Secretariat in the Privy Council Office, providing strategic intelligence to senior decision-makers.

She brings that extensive experience to her training, facilitation, and consulting — helping organizations strengthen resilience, sharpen risk and crisis communications, and build effective alliances in a complex and contested information and geostrategic environment.

As President of the Digital ID & Authentication Council of Canada (DIACC), Joni builds on 15 plus years of experience in Digital Identity innovations and standards development. She helps DIACC to fulfill its vision of unlocking interoperability of public and private sector capabilities through the establishment of an identity trust framework that will grow Canada’s economy. Joni builds impactful relationships and formalizes strategic partnerships between organizations. She has participated in committees and initiatives around the world including: OECD-ITAC, ISOC, IEEE, OASIS-SSTC, ISO SC27 WG5, and she has testified before the US Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology Security and Privacy (ONC HITSP).

Sybila Valdivieso is Executive Director and Senior Legal Counsel with the Provincial Health Services Authority where she oversees the Information Access Privacy department and the Technology Development Office. In her role, she has the opportunity to work across the health sector with colleagues who bring substantial expertise in the areas of healthcare, privacy, data protection, data analytics, information security, governance, technology, intellectual property and commercialization in support of the overarching goal of better patient care for British Columbians. It is her work throughout the pandemic that has spearheaded her interest in AI and Robotics in healthcare, with a view to contributing to the larger discourse of AI on key practicalities so that future regulations of AI in British Columbia consider the full potential of AI in healthcare, while also protecting patients’ rights.

Andrew Drummond is Director of Health Policy at the Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario. Prior to joining the IPC in 2022, Andrew was Manager and, earlier, Senior Health Information Management Policy Advisor at the Information Management Strategy and Policy Branch of Ontario’s Ministry of Health, where he worked extensively on the Personal Health Information Protection Act (PHIPA) and its regulations. He has also held numerous administrative positions at the University of Toronto and the University of Alberta over the course of his career. Andrew holds a BA (Hons) and an MA from the University of Alberta, and currently lives in Toronto, Ontario.

Dr. Khaled El Emam is the Senior Vice-President and General Manager of Replica Analytics, an Aetion company. He is a Canada Research Chair in Medical AI and a Professor in the School of Epidemiology and Public Health at the University of Ottawa. He is also a senior scientist at the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario (CHEO) Research Institute and Director of the multi-disciplinary Electronic Health Information Laboratory, conducting applied research on data synthesis, and the identifiability of health information and how to measure it. Khaled founded or co-founded several companies involved with data management, data analytics, and privacy enhancing technologies, and most recently Replica Analytics.

Holly is a PhD level trained ethicist and research consultant. She serves as an ethicist on a US-based IRB and is an Adjunct Professor in the Faculty of Health Sciences at Simon Fraser University. She has worked as a consultant for Health Canada, the Public Health Agency of Canada, and the CIHR Ethics Office and her work has been published in a variety of journals including CMAJ, Trends in Neurosciences, and Cell Stem Cell. Her current Director role at the Provincial Health Services Authority (PHSA) of British Columbia reflects PHSA’s commitment to strengthening its research enterprise in support of its fundamental mandate to conduct world class research as an academic health science organization with an integrated mandate to deliver care, conduct research, and train tomorrow’s providers.

Jeannette Van Den Bulk joined the Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner for British Columbia as Deputy Commissioner in 2018. She heads the OIPC’s Policy, Audit and Adjudication departments, providing strategic, legal and policy leadership on emerging privacy and access to information matters in British Columbia, Canada and abroad.

She is responsible for leading systemic investigations of significant public interest issues, including the privacy practices of large private sector companies and BC’s political parties as well as the timeliness of access to information by BC government ministries. In addition, she oversees the development of guidance and educational materials for public bodies and organizations and manages the OIPC’s collaboration with national and international partners.

Prior to her current role, she spent three years as the Assistant Privacy Commissioner for the State of Victoria, Australia and 10 years with the BC government responsible for embedding privacy and access solutions into large-scale public sector initiatives, including the province’s corporate data analytics centre and the BC Services Card.

She is a practicing lawyer in both Canada and Australia with a specialization in legal principles relating to privacy, access, and information management.

As Vice-President, Chief Privacy and Data Ethics Officer, Suzanne is responsible for overall privacy leadership at Sun Life and its subsidiaries worldwide. Her mandate includes evolving standards for the responsible use of data at Sun Life. Suzanne’s prior roles include leading the legal team in Quebec, compliance for IT and the global code of conduct and whistleblower program. Before joining Sun Life in 2015, Suzanne spent more than 20 years working in the communications industry, for businesses such as Bell Canada and BlackBerry.

A passionate believer in giving back, Suzanne is actively involved with many organizations including the Canadian Bar Association’s National Privacy and Access Law Section, CANON (Canadian Anonymization Network), MediaSmarts (a leader in media and digital literacy), and recently joined Statistics Canada’s Advisory Council on Ethics and Modernization of Microdata Access.

Elizabeth Denham CBE brings extensive international regulatory expertise to her work across the private and public sectors. She served as the UK Information Commissioner from 2016-2021, following a decade of roles as a data protection and information rights regulator in Canada (Assistant Privacy Commissioner of Canada and Information and Privacy Commissioner of British Columbia).

As Information Commissioner for the UK (ICO), she built and led the largest data protection regulator in the world and Chaired the Global Privacy Assembly (international forum of data protection commissioners) from 2018-2021.

She is committed to making digital technologies and data work for the benefit of society. Under her leadership, the ICO embarked on some of the most daunting cross-border investigations on the misuse of individuals’ data — including her investigation into political micro-targeting and election interference, data brokers and credit reporting agencies, and use of facial recognition technology by commercial firms and the police. She is passionate about the ethical and safe collection, storage and use of data. A highlight of her time at the ICO was drafting the first ‘privacy by design’ statutory Children’s Code – a set of fifteen enforceable standards to protect children’s safety and agency on- line. This Code is having global impact as technology companies and services making meaningful changes to their services to comply with the rigorous standards in the UK Code.

In the 2019 UK Honours list Elizabeth was awarded a CBE for her services to protecting people’s privacy. In 2020 she received the British Computer Society Medal, which recognises an outstanding individual whose work and values have helped to enhance the reputation of digital technology. In 2021 she received an honorary doctorate from the University of Victoria for international leadership in information rights.

Her present roles include serving as an International Consultant for Baker McKenzie’s Canadian, US and European Tech practices, as Chair of the Jersey Data Protection Authority, and, as a trustee on the board of a children’s safety charity, 5 Rights. Her current projects and advisory services are focused on responsible tech and AI data governance across industry sectors.

Philippe Dufresne was appointed Privacy Commissioner of Canada on June 27, 2022. A leading legal expert on human rights, administrative and constitutional law, he previously served as the Law Clerk and Parliamentary Counsel of the House of Commons. In this capacity, he was the chief legal officer of the House of Commons and led the office responsible for the provision of legal and legislative drafting services to the House of Commons, its Speaker, Members and committees, the Board of Internal Economy and the House Administration.

Prior to his appointment as Law Clerk of the House of Commons in 2015, he was the Canadian Human Rights Commission’s Senior General Counsel, responsible for legal services, litigation, investigations, mediations, employment equity and Access to Information and Privacy. During that time, he successfully represented the Commission before all levels of Canadian Courts, including the Supreme Court of Canada, in a number of key human rights and constitutional cases over the last two decades. He has appeared before the Supreme Court on 15 occasions, on issues ranging from accessibility and equal pay for work of equal value, to the balancing of human rights and national security. As lead counsel for the Commission in the landmark parliamentary privilege case of House of Commons v. Vaid, he helped reinforce and clarify some of the country’s fundamental constitutional principles as they apply to the House of Commons and Parliament.

A member of the Bars of Quebec, Ontario, and Massachusetts, he has served his profession and community in several different capacities, including as president of the constitutional and human rights law section of the Canadian Bar Association (Quebec Branch) and as a member of the editorial board for the Canadian Corporate Counsel Association’s CCCA Magazine. In 2014, he served as president of the International Commission of Jurists, an organization devoted to the protection of the rule of law and judicial independence in Canada and internationally.

Commissioner Dufresne holds degrees in common and civil law from McGill University’s Faculty of Law, and has been a part-time professor with the University of Ottawa’s Faculty of Common Law and Queen’s University’s Faculty of Law where he taught international criminal law, human rights and appellate advocacy. He regularly speaks on issues of human rights, administrative, privacy, constitutional and parliamentary law in Canada.

Patricia Kosseim brings to her role as Commissioner significant experience and a wealth of knowledge in the areas of privacy and access law, having worked in public, private and health sectors, and across various jurisdictions.

Previously, Patricia was counsel in Osler’s Privacy and Data Management Group and served for more than a decade as senior general counsel and director general at the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada.

She has held executive positions at Genome Canada and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, and has taught part-time at the University of Ottawa, Faculty of Law.

Patricia obtained her business and law degrees from McGill University, and a Master’s Degree in Medical Law and Ethics from King’s College, University of London, UK.

Patricia is a member of the Law Society of Ontario and the Barreau du Quebec, and is fluently bilingual in English and French.

Robert W. (Bob) Gordon is the executive director of the Canadian Cyber Threat Exchange (CCTX). Over his career, Bob has worked for four federal national security agencies—the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, the Communications Security Establishment, and Public Safety Canada—as well as in the private sector at CGI. While serving in these roles, Bob has been a senior assistant deputy minister, led the national counterterrorism program, overseen broad technology and internal security initiatives (including personnel, IT, and physical security), and designed Canada’s first Cyber Security Strategy. At the CCTX, Bob oversees information sharing and collaboration programs designed to create an open threat data exchange between the public and private sectors.

Ian L. Paterson is an entrepreneur with 10+ years of experience in leading and commercializing technology companies. Paterson has raised millions of dollars in private and public financing, completed international M&A transactions, and is co-inventor of 3 patents on digital identity and data analytics. As CEO of Plurilock, Paterson successfully built and grew Plurilock, leading to its successful public listing on the Toronto Stock Exchange Venture.

Previously Paterson served as founder and CEO of data monetization platform Exapik (acquired), and as Director of Insights for Terapeak (acquired), a venture-backed analytics firm. Paterson is a regular speaker, media commentator, and active angel investor.

Martin Dinel is a trusted information technology and cybersecurity professional with over 35 years of leadership experience. As Chief Information Security Officer for the Government of Alberta (GoA), Martin is defining the organization’s cybersecurity vision and strategy to counter cyber threats and ensure the protection of Alberta’s digital assets. His recent key achievements include:

• 2024 Featured in the Public Sector Network’s top 40 Global Innovators Publication
• 2024 Alberta Premier’s Award – Service Delivery Innovation for Albertans, CyberAlberta Program
• 2023 Alberta Premier’s Award – Service Delivery Innovation for the APS, Cybersecurity Toolset Modernization
• 2022 Featured in the Public Sector Network’s top 40 Global Innovators Publication
• 2021 Founder of the CyberAlberta Community of Interest
• 2015 to present, Member of the National CISO Committee on Information Protection (NCCIP)
• Cybersecurity Champion and Speaker at various Cybersecurity and Privacy related events

Throughout his career, Martin worked in leadership positions in information technology and cybersecurity with various public and private sector organizations. In 2015, he joined the GoA as Chief Information Security Officer, taking on a mentorship role to develop a new cybersecurity centre of excellence, ensuring that Albertans can benefit from a strong, safe and secure Alberta cyberspace.

Christine McKenna is a Policy Analyst at the Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario (IPC), where her work focuses on issues related to privacy and access to information in the public sector, transparency and democracy, law reform, and children and youth.

Christine holds a Master of Information from the University of Toronto with a specialization in Critical Information Policy Studies, and a Bachelor of Arts (Hons) in Communication Studies from Carleton University. Her key areas of study have included privacy and surveillance, information integrity, and digital and media literacy. She has previously worked within the security industry, federal public service, and non-profit sector.

Jennifer Irish is an accomplished former Canadian diplomat and senior international and national security executive, currently serving as an Associate at uOttawa’s Telfer Centre for Executive Leadership, where she directs its security and intelligence programming. She is the Founding Director of uOttawa’s Information Integrity Lab, advancing the understanding, analysis and mitigation of disinformation, misinformation and foreign influence operations.

Over a distinguished 36-year career in Canada’s foreign service and security community, Ms. Irish served in five international postings and held senior roles addressing national and international security, foreign affairs, humanitarian crises, and climate change. She further honed her expertise leading intelligence assessment and geostrategic analysis as Director General of the Integrated Threat Assessment Centre and as Director of Operations at the Intelligence Assessment Secretariat in the Privy Council Office, providing strategic intelligence to senior decision-makers.

She brings that extensive experience to her training, facilitation, and consulting — helping organizations strengthen resilience, sharpen risk and crisis communications, and build effective alliances in a complex and contested information and geostrategic environment.

Professor Heidi Tworek is a Canada Research Chair and Professor of History and Public Policy at the University of British Columbia, where she also directs the Centre for the Study of Democratic Institutions. Her work explores how new communications technologies affect democracy in the past and present.

A globally recognized scholar, Professor Tworek bridges academia and public policy to tackle challenges around democracy, digital platforms, and global communication. She is a senior fellow at the Centre for International Governance Innovation and holds non-resident fellowships at the German Marshall Fund of the United States and the Canadian Global Affairs Institute. She is also a fellow of Royal Historical Society and the Royal Society of Canada’s New College of Scholars, Artists, and Scientists.

Tworek is the author of the award-winning book News from Germany: The Competition to Control World Communications, 1900–1945 (Harvard University Press, 2019) and co-editor of three other books. She has published or has forthcoming over 50 book chapters and journal articles spanning media history, platform governance, digital health policy, the history of technology, international organizations, and transatlantic relations.

Her research has been supported by leading institutions, including the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, Genome Canada, the Canada Foundation for Innovation, the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), and Harvard University. She has co-led multimillion-dollar grants and serves as a board chair and co-founder of several global initiatives, including the Global Platform Governance Research Network and Digital Action, an NGO advancing democratic rights in the digital age.

A trusted voice in international policy, Professor Tworek has briefed and advised government officials around the world on democracy, digital governance, and media strategy. She regularly contributes policy briefs and reports on topics such as generative AI and platform regulation, health communications, and online harassment, and has served on multiple steering committees for transatlantic and international working groups.

Her writing has been published in leading outlets including Foreign Affairs, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, Politico, The Globe & Mail, Wired, and The Conversation. Her work has been featured in The New York Times, Financial Times, CNN, STAT News, and Süddeutsche Zeitung, among many others. She frequently appears on radio, podcasts, and television in countries including Canada, the U.S., the U.K., and Germany.

Tworek earned her BA with double first-class honors from Cambridge University and her MA and PhD in History from Harvard University, where she won the Herman E. Krooss Prize for Best Dissertation in Business History. She has held fellowships at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, the Transatlantic Academy in Washington, D.C., Birkbeck College London, and the Centre for Contemporary History in Potsdam. She currently co-edits the Journal of Global History and is an associate editor of Business History.

Dr. Brenda McPhail is a Senior Technology and Policy Advisor at the Information and Privacy Commission of Ontario where her primary focus is on children’s privacy and privacy in the context of next-generation law enforcement. She came to the role from McMaster University, where she led the development of an executive master’s degree for thought leaders in digital policy. As the former Director of the Privacy, Technology and Surveillance Program at the Canadian Civil Liberties Association, her work has supported Supreme Court litigation, legislative reform, and public education on privacy rights and risks. She has appeared as an expert witness before Parliamentary and Senate committees regarding privacy law, protecting privacy rights in the face of emerging technology, and national security. Brenda received her Ph.D. from the University of Toronto Faculty of Information.

Dr. Teresa Scassa is the Canada Research Chair in Information Law and Policy at the University of Ottawa, Faculty of Law. She is a member of the Canadian Advisory Council on Artificial Intelligence. She is the author of Canadian Trademark Law, and co-author of Digital Commerce in Canada, and Canadian Intellectual Property Law. She is a co-editor of the books AI and the Law in Canada and Law and the Sharing Economy. Her research interests include: privacy law, data governance, intellectual property law, law and technology, law and artificial intelligence, and smart cities.

Jennifer Jin is an AI & Data Policy Analyst at the Centre for Information Policy Leadership (CIPL), where she leads workstreams on responsible AI governance, agentic AI, and cross-sector regulatory engagement. Her current projects support global efforts to translate evolving AI principles into actionable frameworks for industry and regulators.

Jennifer holds a background in neuroscience and ethics, and her previous experience spans research, stakeholder engagement, and global policy development. Jennifer regularly engages with stakeholders across government, industry, and civil society to develop evidence-based, forward-looking approaches to technology governance.

oline Twiss provides strategic leadership and advises on matters of law, policy, and organizational governance as Deputy Commissioner at the Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner (OIPC) and as Deputy Registrar at the Office of the Registrar of Lobbyists (ORL) in BC, Canada. She has been at OIPC since 2014 and previously worked at the House of Commons doing law and policy work on digital issues (including privacy and copyright), international trade, immigration, and indigenous matters, and completed law articles at the Samuelson-Glushko Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic. Deputy Twiss holds civil and common law degrees from McGill University, a Masters in Environmental Studies and a BA in Geography and Psychology. Called to the bar in Ontario in 2011, a member of the Law Society of British Columbia and a Fellow of Information Privacy (FIP) with the International Association of Privacy Professionals (CIPP/C, CIPP/E and CIPM), Deputy Twiss has long been interested in discussions at the intersection of law and policy that can better prosperity for all.

Drew McArthur retired from TELUS in 2007 as Vice President Corporate Affairs and Chief Compliance Officer. As Chief Compliance Officer, Drew was responsible for legal and regulatory compliance for all of TELUS’ operations, reporting to the Audit Committee of the Board of Directors. The responsibilities of this role included ensuring TELUS had the appropriate controls, policies and measurements in place to be compliant with many areas of law and regulation. Drew played a key role in the privacy community in Canada as a founding member of the Council of Canadian Chief Privacy Officers and a member of the advisory board of the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP). From June 2016 to April 2018, Drew was the Acting Information and Privacy Commissioner for BC, and is now consulting in the area of privacy. He can be contacted at drew.mcarthur@telus.net.

As Vice-President, Chief Privacy and Data Ethics Officer, Suzanne is responsible for overall privacy leadership at Sun Life and its subsidiaries worldwide. Her mandate includes evolving standards for the responsible use of data at Sun Life. Suzanne’s prior roles include leading the legal team in Quebec, compliance for IT and the global code of conduct and whistleblower program. Before joining Sun Life in 2015, Suzanne spent more than 20 years working in the communications industry, for businesses such as Bell Canada and BlackBerry.

A passionate believer in giving back, Suzanne is actively involved with many organizations including the Canadian Bar Association’s National Privacy and Access Law Section, CANON (Canadian Anonymization Network), MediaSmarts (a leader in media and digital literacy), and recently joined Statistics Canada’s Advisory Council on Ethics and Modernization of Microdata Access.

Drew McArthur retired from TELUS in 2007 as Vice President Corporate Affairs and Chief Compliance Officer. As Chief Compliance Officer, Drew was responsible for legal and regulatory compliance for all of TELUS’ operations, reporting to the Audit Committee of the Board of Directors. The responsibilities of this role included ensuring TELUS had the appropriate controls, policies and measurements in place to be compliant with many areas of law and regulation. Drew played a key role in the privacy community in Canada as a founding member of the Council of Canadian Chief Privacy Officers and a member of the advisory board of the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP). From June 2016 to April 2018, Drew was the Acting Information and Privacy Commissioner for BC, and is now consulting in the area of privacy. He can be contacted at drew.mcarthur@telus.net.

As Vice-President, Chief Privacy and Data Ethics Officer, Suzanne is responsible for overall privacy leadership at Sun Life and its subsidiaries worldwide. Her mandate includes evolving standards for the responsible use of data at Sun Life. Suzanne’s prior roles include leading the legal team in Quebec, compliance for IT and the global code of conduct and whistleblower program. Before joining Sun Life in 2015, Suzanne spent more than 20 years working in the communications industry, for businesses such as Bell Canada and BlackBerry.

A passionate believer in giving back, Suzanne is actively involved with many organizations including the Canadian Bar Association’s National Privacy and Access Law Section, CANON (Canadian Anonymization Network), MediaSmarts (a leader in media and digital literacy), and recently joined Statistics Canada’s Advisory Council on Ethics and Modernization of Microdata Access.

Philippe Dufresne was appointed Privacy Commissioner of Canada on June 27, 2022. A leading legal expert on human rights, administrative and constitutional law, he previously served as the Law Clerk and Parliamentary Counsel of the House of Commons. In this capacity, he was the chief legal officer of the House of Commons and led the office responsible for the provision of legal and legislative drafting services to the House of Commons, its Speaker, Members and committees, the Board of Internal Economy and the House Administration.

Prior to his appointment as Law Clerk of the House of Commons in 2015, he was the Canadian Human Rights Commission’s Senior General Counsel, responsible for legal services, litigation, investigations, mediations, employment equity and Access to Information and Privacy. During that time, he successfully represented the Commission before all levels of Canadian Courts, including the Supreme Court of Canada, in a number of key human rights and constitutional cases over the last two decades. He has appeared before the Supreme Court on 15 occasions, on issues ranging from accessibility and equal pay for work of equal value, to the balancing of human rights and national security. As lead counsel for the Commission in the landmark parliamentary privilege case of House of Commons v. Vaid, he helped reinforce and clarify some of the country’s fundamental constitutional principles as they apply to the House of Commons and Parliament.

A member of the Bars of Quebec, Ontario, and Massachusetts, he has served his profession and community in several different capacities, including as president of the constitutional and human rights law section of the Canadian Bar Association (Quebec Branch) and as a member of the editorial board for the Canadian Corporate Counsel Association’s CCCA Magazine. In 2014, he served as president of the International Commission of Jurists, an organization devoted to the protection of the rule of law and judicial independence in Canada and internationally.

Commissioner Dufresne holds degrees in common and civil law from McGill University’s Faculty of Law, and has been a part-time professor with the University of Ottawa’s Faculty of Common Law and Queen’s University’s Faculty of Law where he taught international criminal law, human rights and appellate advocacy. He regularly speaks on issues of human rights, administrative, privacy, constitutional and parliamentary law in Canada.

Lorraine leads and manages the Canadian Bankers Association’s (CBA) policy development and advocacy relating to public policy issues in the areas of privacy and data, working closely with member banks’ privacy and legal teams. She provides subject matter expertise on emerging provincial, national and international trends in privacy and data as they relate to banking in Canada, including technological / societal trends and digital transformation of the banking industry, including biometrics, AI, and Consumer Driven Banking.

In addition, Lorraine has been working with financial crimes groups on the topic of privacy and private-to-private information sharing relating to the detection, prevention and suppression of fraud and the detection and deterrence of money laundering, terrorist financing and sanctions evasion.

Dr. Teresa Scassa is the Canada Research Chair in Information Law and Policy at the University of Ottawa, Faculty of Law. She is a member of the Canadian Advisory Council on Artificial Intelligence. She is the author of Canadian Trademark Law, and co-author of Digital Commerce in Canada, and Canadian Intellectual Property Law. She is a co-editor of the books AI and the Law in Canada and Law and the Sharing Economy. Her research interests include: privacy law, data governance, intellectual property law, law and technology, law and artificial intelligence, and smart cities.

Anita Charters is the Senior Advisor, Interdisciplinary Research and Programs at Genome British Columbia, a non-profit organization that invests in and supports genomics research and innovation to address regional challenges. With a passion for responsible innovation, Anita is dedicated to bringing a social science lens to both the research and implementation stages of genomics. This approach ensures the development and use of genomics is both responsible and equitable.

Anita has been in the genomics ecosystem for over two decades. Her background includes integrating several genomic assays into the clinic at the Provincial Health Services Authority, as well as roles as Computational Biologist and Project Manager at Canada’s Michael Smith Genome Sciences Centre. She holds a Ph.D. in Communication from Simon Fraser University, where she investigated sociotechnical imaginaries that shape precision medicine.

Patricia Kosseim brings to her role as Commissioner significant experience and a wealth of knowledge in the areas of privacy and access law, having worked in public, private and health sectors, and across various jurisdictions.

Previously, Patricia was counsel in Osler’s Privacy and Data Management Group and served for more than a decade as senior general counsel and director general at the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada.

She has held executive positions at Genome Canada and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, and has taught part-time at the University of Ottawa, Faculty of Law.

Patricia obtained her business and law degrees from McGill University, and a Master’s Degree in Medical Law and Ethics from King’s College, University of London, UK.

Patricia is a member of the Law Society of Ontario and the Barreau du Quebec, and is fluently bilingual in English and French.

Nilou Noursadeghi recently completed her MSc in Genome Science and Technology at UBC. During her studies, she founded Bahar Genetics Inc., a consulting startup inspired by her personal journey and her dedication to advancing patient care in British Columbia. Through this venture, Nilou recognized a critical gap in public and professional education surrounding the fast-evolving field of genomics. She is now committed to bridging that gap by providing clear, unbiased insights into the latest advancements in genomic technology, offering valuable information to healthcare professionals, patients, and those curious about the field.

Brian Lenahan is founder and chair of the Quantum Strategy Institute, and author of six Amazon published books on quantum technologies and artificial intelligence. Brian was named a ‘Quantum Top Voice for 2022’ for his LinkedIn publishing activities. He is a former financial services industry executive with a focus on the strategic and practical applications of technology.

Lisa Lambert is the inaugural CEO of Quantum Industry Canada (QIC), the country’s business-led consortium uniting quantum technology companies and strategic partners to accelerate innovation and build a resilient quantum economy that advances Canada’s security, prosperity, and global leadership.

A recognized leader in innovation strategy, her career spans pivotal roles at the Council of Canadian Academies, the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, TRIUMF, and high-profile collaborations with global thought leaders including Seth Godin, Roger Martin, and Margaret Atwood.

Lisa holds leadership and advisory positions across business, innovation, and defence organizations worldwide, including serving on the Executive Committee of the International Council of Quantum Industry Associations (ICQIA). She advises on dual-use considerations for quantum and its convergence with other disruptive and emerging technologies in multiple international forums, including G7-led initiatives and the NATO Transatlantic Quantum Community.

Dr. Florian Martin-Bariteau is the University Research Chair in Technology and Society and the Director of the Centre for Law, Technology and Society at the University of Ottawa, where he is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Law, Common Law Section.

A technologist and creative turned legal scholar, his research focuses on technology law, ethics and policy, with a special interest in artificial intelligence, blockchain, quantum science and technologiesnorth_eastexternal link cybersecurity, whistleblowers and intellectual property.

Dr. Florian Martin-Bariteau is an internationally-recognized thought leader on technology policy, engaged in shaping frameworks that safeguard rights and liberties in the digital context to build a more secure and inclusive society. His work has been published in leading journals and publishing houses in French and English, and presented globally to academic and policy audiences. He regularly comments on technology-related news in national and international media outlets. His research is funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) and the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) of Canada, as well as by several foundations and philanthropic gifts. Now a tenured professor, he is the recipient of the 2019 Common Law Emerging Researcher Award and the 2024 Early Career Research of the Year Award for Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Ottawa. In 2025, he waselected to the College of New Scholars, Artists, and Scientists of the Royal Society of Canada, adding him to the list of Canada’s most influential new voices. He also received the Royal Society of Canada’s 2025  Kitty Newman Memorial Award for outstanding contributions as an emerging scholar.

Dr. Martin-Bariteau is a Faculty Associate of the Berkman-Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Universitynorth_eastexternal link, as well as a member of the Nexus for Quantum Technologies Institute at the University of Ottawa. He also launched the University of Ottawa’s AI + Society Initiativenorth_eastexternal link.

Dr. Florian Martin-Bariteau serves as co-investigator and group leader in three transdisciplinary SSHRC-funded partnerships: Cyberjustice Lab’s Autonomy through Cyberjustice Technologynorth_eastexternal link, Global Journalism Innovation Labnorth_eastexternal link, and HC2P – Human-Centric Cybersecurity Partnershipnorth_eastexternal link, as well as for the NSERC Quantum Alliance Consortium QuORUM (QUébec Ontario consoRtium on quantUM protocols). He is also a co-investigator of Open AIR, the Open African Innovation Research network, and member of several international research networks.

He previously served on the Board of Directors of the NCE SERENE-RISCnorth_eastexternal link, Canada’s smart cybersecurity network and co-led, with Dr. Elizabeth Dubois, Connected Canadanorth_eastexternal link, a pan-Canadian interdisciplinary research initiative on citizenship in a digital context.

He was appointed a Fellow (2022-2023) of the Berkman-Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Universitynorth_eastexternal link, and a Visiting Professor at CERCRID (UMR CNRS) and the Faculty of Law of Université Jean-Monnet Saint-Etienne (2023), at the 3IA – Interdisciplinary AI Institute at Université Côte d’Azur (2024), and at QuantAlps, the quantum institute at Université Grenoble-Alpes and CNRS (2024).

Prior to joining the University of Ottawa in September 2016, Dr. Florian Martin-Bariteau was a Lecturer in the Faculty of Law and in the Department of Computer Sciences (DIRO) at Université de Montréal. He was also the coordinator and co-founder of OpenUM and coordinator the L. R. Wilson Chair in Information Technology and Electronic Commerce Law. In 2015, he was named an Internet Policy Global Fellow of the Instituto de Technologia e Sociedadenorth_eastexternal link (ITS Rio, Brazil), and a Young Scholar of the Jean-Louis-Baudouin Chair in Civil Law at the Université de Montréal.

Dr. Florian Martin-Bariteau received his LL.D. (PhD/Doctor in Laws) in December 2016 from the Université de Montréal where it was awarded the highest distinction (“exceptional”, 5%). Upon graduation, he was named on the University’s Honour List (10%). Building on and developing his doctoral work, his first book, Le droit de marque, was the runner-up of the 2018 Walter Owen Book Prize celebrating Canada’s best legal publications.

Dr. Martin-Bariteau also holds a Licence in Law (with distinctions and Dean’s List), a Maîtrise in Business Law, and a Master in Intellectual Property and Information Technology Law (with distinctions) from the Université d’Aix-Marseille (France). In addition, he holds both a Certificate in Criminal Law, Criminology and Forensic Sciences, and a Certificate in Legal and Moral Sciences.

Dr. Florian Martin-Bariteau has held several positions as Chair or board member of various non-profit organizations, in Canada and France. He served as the Vice-President for Student Affairs at the Université Paul-Cézanne Aix-Marseille III from 2008 to 2011. From 2011 to 2012, he was a teaching assistant and junior lecturer at the Faculty of Law and Politics of the Université d’Aix-Marseille. He has also worked as a developer, a creative and a publicist. He now leverages the knowledge and skill sets acquired from these experiences to support knowledge dissemination, and meaningful engagement with stakeholders and research users.

Dr. Florian Martin-Bariteau welcomes enquiries from students interested in undertaking research and pursuing graduate studies in his fields of expertise. He is authorized to supervise students at all levels, including Ph.D. and postdoctoral fellowships.

Tanya Janca, aka SheHacksPurple, is the best-selling author of ‘Alice and Bob Learn Secure Coding’, ‘Alice and Bob Learn Application Security’ and ‘Cards Against AppSec’. Over her 28-year IT career she has won countless awards (including OWASP Lifetime Distinguished Member and Hacker of the Year), spoken all over the planet, and is a prolific blogger. Tanya has trained thousands of software developers and IT security professionals, via her online academies (We Hack Purple and Semgrep Academy), and her live training programs. Having performed counter-terrorism, led security for the 52nd Canadian general election, developed or secured countless applications, Tanya Janca is widely considered an international authority on the security of software.

Pam Simpson is an AI Business Information Security Officer at TD, responsible for implementing security governance for generative AI-based initiatives and participating in multiple industry working groups looking to the impact of AI on the financial industry. In her previous roles at TD, she worked within the Fusion Incident Management Team contributing to insider investigations and process creation, and within Threat Intelligence managing strategic planning for threat intelligence collection and threat modelling. Prior to joining TD, Pam worked with BMO as Strategic Cyber Threat Intelligence Analyst, focusing on strategic reporting of state-sponsored cyber threats and ransomware. She is the Engagements Lead on the Platforms and Technology Indigenous Peoples Committee helping facilitate partnerships with Indigenous led organizations within the technology space. Pam holds her CISSP designation, a GIAC Cyber Threat Intelligence Certification from SANS, a Security + Certification from CompTIA and helps mentor individuals towards developing a career in cyber threat intelligence.

Elizabeth Denham CBE brings extensive international regulatory expertise to her work across the private and public sectors. She served as the UK Information Commissioner from 2016-2021, following a decade of roles as a data protection and information rights regulator in Canada (Assistant Privacy Commissioner of Canada and Information and Privacy Commissioner of British Columbia).

As Information Commissioner for the UK (ICO), she built and led the largest data protection regulator in the world and Chaired the Global Privacy Assembly (international forum of data protection commissioners) from 2018-2021.

She is committed to making digital technologies and data work for the benefit of society. Under her leadership, the ICO embarked on some of the most daunting cross-border investigations on the misuse of individuals’ data — including her investigation into political micro-targeting and election interference, data brokers and credit reporting agencies, and use of facial recognition technology by commercial firms and the police. She is passionate about the ethical and safe collection, storage and use of data. A highlight of her time at the ICO was drafting the first ‘privacy by design’ statutory Children’s Code – a set of fifteen enforceable standards to protect children’s safety and agency on- line. This Code is having global impact as technology companies and services making meaningful changes to their services to comply with the rigorous standards in the UK Code.

In the 2019 UK Honours list Elizabeth was awarded a CBE for her services to protecting people’s privacy. In 2020 she received the British Computer Society Medal, which recognises an outstanding individual whose work and values have helped to enhance the reputation of digital technology. In 2021 she received an honorary doctorate from the University of Victoria for international leadership in information rights.

Her present roles include serving as an International Consultant for Baker McKenzie’s Canadian, US and European Tech practices, as Chair of the Jersey Data Protection Authority, and, as a trustee on the board of a children’s safety charity, 5 Rights. Her current projects and advisory services are focused on responsible tech and AI data governance across industry sectors.

Bojana is the President of Hunton’s Centre for Information Policy Leadership (CIPL), a preeminent global privacy and data policy think tank in London, Washington, DC, and Brussels. Bojana works with global business and technology leaders, regulators, policy and law makers to shape global data policy and practice and develop thought leadership and best practices for privacy and responsible data use. Politico nominated Bojana in its inaugural 2021 Tech28 list of top people influencing digital policy in Europe and beyond. In 2019 Bojana received the IAPP Vanguard Award, which recognizes privacy professionals for outstanding leadership, knowledge and creativity. In 2024, Bojana was awarded the Award for Achievement by the PICCASO Awards Europe for playing a crucial role in shaping global data policy, advising governments, and contributing thought leadership at high-profile events globally. With over 25 years of experience in privacy and data policy and compliance, including former global privacy head at Accenture for 12 years, she sits on several industry and regulatory advisory boards and panels, including Mercedes-Benz Advisory Board for Integrity and Sustainability and the UK Government’s Expert Council for International Data Flows.

Andrew Clement is a professor emeritus of information at the University of Toronto, where he has coordinated the Information Policy Research Program since the 1990s and co-founded the Identity Privacy and Security Institute (IPSI). With a PhD in Computer Science, he has had longstanding research and advocacy interests in the social and policy implications of digital technologies, specially in the areas of privacy, surveillance and network sovereignty. In 2025 he co-founded Canadians for Digital Sovereignty.

Dr. Florian Martin-Bariteau is the University Research Chair in Technology and Society and the Director of the Centre for Law, Technology and Society at the University of Ottawa, where he is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Law, Common Law Section.

A technologist and creative turned legal scholar, his research focuses on technology law, ethics and policy, with a special interest in artificial intelligence, blockchain, quantum science and technologiesnorth_eastexternal link cybersecurity, whistleblowers and intellectual property.

Dr. Florian Martin-Bariteau is an internationally-recognized thought leader on technology policy, engaged in shaping frameworks that safeguard rights and liberties in the digital context to build a more secure and inclusive society. His work has been published in leading journals and publishing houses in French and English, and presented globally to academic and policy audiences. He regularly comments on technology-related news in national and international media outlets. His research is funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) and the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) of Canada, as well as by several foundations and philanthropic gifts. Now a tenured professor, he is the recipient of the 2019 Common Law Emerging Researcher Award and the 2024 Early Career Research of the Year Award for Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Ottawa. In 2025, he waselected to the College of New Scholars, Artists, and Scientists of the Royal Society of Canada, adding him to the list of Canada’s most influential new voices. He also received the Royal Society of Canada’s 2025  Kitty Newman Memorial Award for outstanding contributions as an emerging scholar.

Dr. Martin-Bariteau is a Faculty Associate of the Berkman-Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Universitynorth_eastexternal link, as well as a member of the Nexus for Quantum Technologies Institute at the University of Ottawa. He also launched the University of Ottawa’s AI + Society Initiativenorth_eastexternal link.

Dr. Florian Martin-Bariteau serves as co-investigator and group leader in three transdisciplinary SSHRC-funded partnerships: Cyberjustice Lab’s Autonomy through Cyberjustice Technologynorth_eastexternal link, Global Journalism Innovation Labnorth_eastexternal link, and HC2P – Human-Centric Cybersecurity Partnershipnorth_eastexternal link, as well as for the NSERC Quantum Alliance Consortium QuORUM (QUébec Ontario consoRtium on quantUM protocols). He is also a co-investigator of Open AIR, the Open African Innovation Research network, and member of several international research networks.

He previously served on the Board of Directors of the NCE SERENE-RISCnorth_eastexternal link, Canada’s smart cybersecurity network and co-led, with Dr. Elizabeth Dubois, Connected Canadanorth_eastexternal link, a pan-Canadian interdisciplinary research initiative on citizenship in a digital context.

He was appointed a Fellow (2022-2023) of the Berkman-Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Universitynorth_eastexternal link, and a Visiting Professor at CERCRID (UMR CNRS) and the Faculty of Law of Université Jean-Monnet Saint-Etienne (2023), at the 3IA – Interdisciplinary AI Institute at Université Côte d’Azur (2024), and at QuantAlps, the quantum institute at Université Grenoble-Alpes and CNRS (2024).

Prior to joining the University of Ottawa in September 2016, Dr. Florian Martin-Bariteau was a Lecturer in the Faculty of Law and in the Department of Computer Sciences (DIRO) at Université de Montréal. He was also the coordinator and co-founder of OpenUM and coordinator the L. R. Wilson Chair in Information Technology and Electronic Commerce Law. In 2015, he was named an Internet Policy Global Fellow of the Instituto de Technologia e Sociedadenorth_eastexternal link (ITS Rio, Brazil), and a Young Scholar of the Jean-Louis-Baudouin Chair in Civil Law at the Université de Montréal.

Dr. Florian Martin-Bariteau received his LL.D. (PhD/Doctor in Laws) in December 2016 from the Université de Montréal where it was awarded the highest distinction (“exceptional”, 5%). Upon graduation, he was named on the University’s Honour List (10%). Building on and developing his doctoral work, his first book, Le droit de marque, was the runner-up of the 2018 Walter Owen Book Prize celebrating Canada’s best legal publications.

Dr. Martin-Bariteau also holds a Licence in Law (with distinctions and Dean’s List), a Maîtrise in Business Law, and a Master in Intellectual Property and Information Technology Law (with distinctions) from the Université d’Aix-Marseille (France). In addition, he holds both a Certificate in Criminal Law, Criminology and Forensic Sciences, and a Certificate in Legal and Moral Sciences.

Dr. Florian Martin-Bariteau has held several positions as Chair or board member of various non-profit organizations, in Canada and France. He served as the Vice-President for Student Affairs at the Université Paul-Cézanne Aix-Marseille III from 2008 to 2011. From 2011 to 2012, he was a teaching assistant and junior lecturer at the Faculty of Law and Politics of the Université d’Aix-Marseille. He has also worked as a developer, a creative and a publicist. He now leverages the knowledge and skill sets acquired from these experiences to support knowledge dissemination, and meaningful engagement with stakeholders and research users.

Dr. Florian Martin-Bariteau welcomes enquiries from students interested in undertaking research and pursuing graduate studies in his fields of expertise. He is authorized to supervise students at all levels, including Ph.D. and postdoctoral fellowships.

Christian Leuprecht (Ph.D, Queen’s) is Class of 1965 Professor in Leadership, Department of Political Science and Economics, Royal Military College, Director of the Institute of Intergovernmental Relations, School of Policy Studies, Queen’s University the inaugural Fulbright Chair in Canada-US Relations at the School for Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University in Washington, DC and Eisenhower Fellow at the NATO Defence College in Rome. He is Adjunct Research Professor, Australian Graduate School of Policing and Security, Charles Sturt University as well as the Centre for Crime Policy and Research, Flinders University. A recipient of RMC’s Cowan Prize for Excellence in Research and an elected member of the College of New Scholars of the Royal Society of Canada, he is also Munk Senior Fellow in Security and Defence at the Macdonald Laurier Institute. An expert in security and defence, political demography, and comparative federalism and multilevel governance, he has held visiting positions in North America, Europe, and Australia, and is regularly called as an expert witness to testify before committees of Parliament. He holds appointments to the board of the German Institute for Defence and Strategic Studies, the Police Services Board of the City of Kingston, and the Polar Research & Policy Initiative.

His publications have appeared in English, German, French, and Spanish and include 12 books and scores of articles that have appeared, inter alia, in the Florida State University Law Review (2019), Electoral Studies (2016), Government Information Quarterly (2016), Armed Forces and Society (2015), Global Crime (2015, 2013), the Canadian Foreign Policy Journal (2014, Maureen Molot Prize for Best Article), Canadian Public Administration (2014), the Canadian Journal of Political Science (2012, 2003), Regional and Federal Studies (2012), and Terrorism and Political Violence (2019, 2018, 2017, 2011). His editorials appear regularly across Canada’s national newspapers and he is a frequent commentator in domestic and international media.

Leuprecht has been Matthew Flinders Fellow at the Flinders University of South Australia (2017-2018), held a senior and visiting fellowships at the Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg Institute for Advanced Study (2016), the Helmut-Schmidt-University of the Bundeswehr (2016), Université Pierre-Mendès France (2015), the University of Augsburg in Germany (2011), the Swedish National Defence College (recurring) and the European Academy (recurring), and as the Bicentennial Visiting Associate Professor in Canadian Studies at Yale University (2009-2010). He is a research affiliate at the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (since 2005), the Network for Terrorism, Security, and Society (since 2012), l’Université de Montréal’s International Centre for Comparative Criminology (since 2014), the Centre interuniversitaire de recherche sur les relations internationales du Canada et du Québec (since 2015), l’Observatoire sur la radicalization et l’extrémisme violent (since 2015), the Austrian Institute for European and Security Policy (since 2010), the Solomon Asch Center for Study of Ethnopolitical Conflict at the University of Pennsylvania and Bryn Mawr College (2003), the World Population Program at the International Institute for Advanced Systems Analysis in Vienna, Austria (2002), and held doctoral (2001-2003) and postdoctoral (2003-2005) fellowships from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. He holds a Ph.D. from Queen’s University (2003), and graduate degrees in Political Science (1998) and French (1999) from the University of Toronto as well as the Institut d’Études Politiques at the Université Pierre-Mendès France in Grenoble (1997).

From 2015-2018 he held a Governor-in-Council appointment to the governing Council of the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada where he also served on the Executive Committee and as Chair of the Committee on Discovery Research. He is also immediate past-president (2014-2018) of the International Sociological Association’s Research Committee 01: Armed Forces and Conflict Resolution. Since joining RMCC in 2005, he has served as Associate Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Deputy Head of the Department of Political Science and Economics. He has twice received the RMCC Commandant’s Commendation for Excellence in Service. A long-time proponent of experiential learning, Leuprecht has also been a finalist for RMCC’s Teaching Excellence Award and has received honourable mention for the Queen’s University Undergraduate Research Mentorship Award (2017). He is a member of the editorial boards of Armed Forces & Society, Commonwealth & Comparative Politics, Current Sociology’s Manuscript Series, and the Springer book series in Advances in Science and Technologies for Security Applications. Previously, he was associate editor of the Queen’s Policy Studies series published by McGill-Queen’s University Press.

Drew McArthur retired from TELUS in 2007 as Vice President Corporate Affairs and Chief Compliance Officer. As Chief Compliance Officer, Drew was responsible for legal and regulatory compliance for all of TELUS’ operations, reporting to the Audit Committee of the Board of Directors. The responsibilities of this role included ensuring TELUS had the appropriate controls, policies and measurements in place to be compliant with many areas of law and regulation. Drew played a key role in the privacy community in Canada as a founding member of the Council of Canadian Chief Privacy Officers and a member of the advisory board of the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP). From June 2016 to April 2018, Drew was the Acting Information and Privacy Commissioner for BC, and is now consulting in the area of privacy. He can be contacted at drew.mcarthur@telus.net.

As Vice-President, Chief Privacy and Data Ethics Officer, Suzanne is responsible for overall privacy leadership at Sun Life and its subsidiaries worldwide. Her mandate includes evolving standards for the responsible use of data at Sun Life. Suzanne’s prior roles include leading the legal team in Quebec, compliance for IT and the global code of conduct and whistleblower program. Before joining Sun Life in 2015, Suzanne spent more than 20 years working in the communications industry, for businesses such as Bell Canada and BlackBerry.

A passionate believer in giving back, Suzanne is actively involved with many organizations including the Canadian Bar Association’s National Privacy and Access Law Section, CANON (Canadian Anonymization Network), MediaSmarts (a leader in media and digital literacy), and recently joined Statistics Canada’s Advisory Council on Ethics and Modernization of Microdata Access.