Joe Cannataci

Organisation: UN Special Rapporteur on the right to privacy (INT)

Joe Cannataci is the first ever UN Special Rapporteur on Privacy. He is head of the Department of Information Policy & Governance at the University of Malta. He also co-founded and is Co-director of STeP, Security, Technology & e-Privacy Research Group at the University of Groningen, the Netherlands, where he is Full Professor, holding the Chair of European Information Policy & Technology Law . A Fellow of the British Computer Society and UK Chartered Information technology Professional he is adjunct Professor at the Security Research Institute Edith Cowan University Australia. A Senior Fellow & Associate Researcher at CNAM Security-Defense-Intelligence Department, Paris, he was decorated by France as Officier de l'Ordre de Palmes Academiques.