Barbara Bucknell

Strategic Policy Analyst, Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada

Barbara Bucknell is a Strategic Policy Analyst in the Legal, Policy and Parliamentary Affairs Branch of the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada (OPC). Barbara has been with the OPC for the better part of the past nine years, during which time she has had the privilege of working on a number of high-profile issues. She has also worked as a Policy Analyst in the Information and Privacy Policy Division at Treasury Board Secretariat. In 2010, Barbara was on assignment with the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), working on a special report to mark the current privacy environment 30 years after the adoption of the OECD Privacy Guidelines. Barbara started off her professional life as a teacher, later joining the federal public service as a writer/editor.