Dr. Andrew Clement – VIPSS26

Professor Emeritus, Faculty of Information, University of Toronto

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.