SIMON DAVIES

Simon Davies is widely acknowledged as one of the foremost privacy advocates in the world, and is one of the pioneers of the international privacy arena. His work in the fields of privacy, data protection, consumer rights and technology policy has spanned more than twenty years.  Simon is perhaps best known as the founder and Director of the watchdog group Privacy International, but is also an academic, consultant, journalist and author.
Simons interests cover the entire privacy spectrum, from identity systems, government data systems and communications surveillance, through to the legal aspects of data protection. He is the author of five books, including Big Brother (Pan McMillan, London, 1995).
Simon has been a Visiting Fellow in Law at both the University of Greenwich and the University of Essex, and for the past ten years has been Visiting Fellow and lecturer in the Department of Information Systems in the London School of Economics, where he teaches the MSc masters course in "Privacy & Data Protection".

Simon has also advised a wide range of corporate, government and professional bodies, and has worked on technology, privacy and identity issues in more than forty countries.  He has consulted to, and been a trainer for, such companies as Microsoft, RAND, the Information Security Forum, British Telecom, Aegate, IBM, UNISYS and EDS as well as to such organisations as the British Medical Association, the Ontario Information & Privacy Commissioner and the UK Department for Work & Pensions.
His work has put him at the forefront of numerous issues, including the debate over proposals for government identity systems, the ethics of CCTV surveillance, the development of encryption regulation, human rights law and the data trade between Europe and the United States.  In April 1999, he received the Electronic Frontier Foundation's "Pioneer" award for his contribution to the development of the Internet. In both 2004 and 2005 Silicon.com voted him as one of the worlds 50 most influential people in technology policy
Simon contributes regularly to dozens of newspapers and publications, and has written recently for the Times, the Guardian, The Los Angeles Times, the New York Daily News, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Daily Telegraph, The International Herald Tribune and Index on Censorship.  He has appeared on almost every major current affairs programme in the world, including those on NBC, CNN, ABC, NHK (Japan), Russia 1 News and the BBC on which he regularly discusses issues relating to privacy and security.

Contact Details
Department of Information Systems
The London School of Economics
Houghton St.
London WC2A 2AE