Media Enquiries may be directed to any Board Member, but initial contact is preferred with the following:

Telecoms and Internet Matters:

• Chair, Telecoms & Internet Committee – (Dr) Jodie Siganto – 0408 275 733

Privacy Matters Generally:

• Chair – David Vaile – 0414 731 249, Sydney – @davidvaile
• Vice-Chair – (Dr) Monique Mann – 0475 348 700, Melbourne – @DrMoniqueMann
• Vice-Chair – (Dr) Juanita Fernando – 0408 131 535, Melbourne – @juanitafernando
• Secretary – (Dr) Roger Clarke – (02) 6288 6916, Canberra

General Email to enquiries@privacy.org.au; or to the appropriate Office-Bearer below.

The Board strongly prefers all communications to be by electronic means, i.e. email or phone. If it is essential to send hard-copy materials by regular post / ‘snail mail’ or courier, please contact the relevant Board Member and ask them for an appropriate address to send it to.

(Dr) Ausma Bernot - Surveillance Committee, Brisbane

Twitter: @ausma_b
Website: https://ausmabernot.com

Dr Ausma Bernot is a Lecturer in Technology and Crime at Griffith University, researching in the areas of privacy and surveillance. Two of her primary research foci are (1) underexplored issues in privacy and surveillance, and (2) technology governance and regulation, as they relate to the criminal justice system. Dr Bernot completed her PhD from the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice, Griffith University, in 2023.

Most recent of Dr Bernot’s academic research has focused on data transfer concerns, many of which overlapped with Australia’s federal debates. Namely, social media, genomic data, and Chinese information-collecting technologies, such as CCTV cameras and drones. Her current research focus aims to articulate facial recognition harms from the perspective of individuals across Australia, with a particular focus on marginalised communities.

(Dr) Roger Clarke - SECRETARY & TREASURER, Canberra

(02) 6288 6916

Roger is a consultant focussing on strategic and policy aspects of eBusiness, information infrastructure, and dataveillance and privacy, working through his own company, Xamax Consultancy. He has a long list of both formal and informal publications, and has been a Visiting Professor at universities in Australia and overseas. He has been an active privacy advocate since 1972, an active privacy researcher since 1975, an active privacy consultant since 1977, and a Board member of APF since its inception in 1987. In 2009, he was awarded only the second-ever Australian Privacy Medal

(Dr) Juanita Fernando - VICE CHAIR, Melbourne

Twitter: @juanitafernando

Juanita is an Adjunct Research Fellow, Medical Education Research & Quality (MERQ) unit at Monash University. She is the foundation chair of the APF Health Privacy Committee and acted in that role until 2014. Juanita is a Fellow of the Australasian Institute of Digital Health (AIDH), and foundation Academic Convenor of the online Fellowship by Training program, the most successful of its kind in the Southern Hemisphere. She is also a founding member of the Digital Health Quaternary.

Juanita has been working in digital health informatics fo 15 years as researcher, educator and teacher. She works with expert colleagues from Medicine, Engineering and IT on mHealth QoS, digital health practice and education. Juanita aims to help bridge the global demand for digital health experts across all disciplines and domains.

(Prof) Graham Greenleaf AM - Sydney

(02) 9569 5310 (h)
Twitter: @grahamgreenleaf

Graham is Professor at Law & Information Technology at UNSW. He is co-director of the Australasian Legal Information Institute (AustLII), and was co-director of UNSW's Cyberspace Law and Policy Centre (2000-10). He is also one of the convenors of the Asian Privacy Scholars Network. He was the founder of Privacy Law & Policy Reporter (1994-2006) and is now the Asia-Pacific Editor of Privacy Laws & Business International Report (2007-).

(Dr) Monique Mann - VICE CHAIR; Chair, Surveillance Committee, Melbourne

(03) 5227 3617
Twitter: @DrMoniqueMann

Dr Monique Mann is a Senior Lecturer in Criminology and member of the Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation at Deakin University. Dr Mann is an Adjunct Researcher with the Law, Science, Technology and Society Research Centre at Vrije Universiteit Brussel. She graduated with a PhD from the ARC Centre of Excellence in Policing and Security at Griffith University in 2015.

Mann's research expertise concerns three main interrelated lines of inquiry: (1) new technology for policing and surveillance, (2) human rights and social justice, and (3) governance and regulation. Mann has contributed to advancing Australia’s national research agenda in these areas through her activities not only as an academic and author, but also as an advocate, media commentator, and policy advisor.

She is author of ‘Politicising and Policing Organised Crime‘ (Routledge, 2019), ‘Biometrics, Crime and Security‘ (Routledge, 2018), and editor of ‘Good Data‘ (Institute of Network Cultures, 2019).

(Prof) Katina Michael - Wollongong

(02) 4221 3937 (w) or 0431 201 172
Twitter: @katinamichael

Katina Michael is a Professor in the School of Information Systems and Technology at the University of Wollongong, and a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). She received a Bachelor of Information Technology degree from the University of Technology, Sydney (UTS) in 1996 and a Ph.D. degree in information technology and communications from the University of Wollongong in 2003. Before joining academia in 2002, she worked as a senior network and business planner at Nortel Networks

(Dr) Liam Pomfret - Chair, Technical Committee, Brisbane

Mastodon: @liampomfret@mastodon.social
Twitter: @LiamPomfret

Liam Pomfret is a consumer behaviour researcher, and a content specialist in the area of consumer privacy. His research centers around the exploration of the antecedent factors for consumers' privacy protection and self-disclosure behaviours in social media. His work is motivated by a strong personal belief that fundamental questions of ethics, equality and justice are important in understanding and evaluating the impacts on society of the creation and use of new technologies by firms.

Holly Raiche - Chair, Telecommunications and Internet Committee, Sydney

(02) 9436 2149

Holly has been a member of the APF Telecoms and Internet Committee since 2013. She has had a long standing interest in privacy, starting when she worked at the Communications Law Centre in the 1970s, and as a member of the then Telecom Australia Consumer Council (TACC), was involved with their trials on the introduction of Calling Number Display Issues, and when TACC was disbanded, joined the then regulator Austel’s Privacy Committee. While she has been involved in communications issues as both a lecturer and advocate, she has continued her involvement in privacy issues.

(Dr) Bernard Robertson-Dunn - Vice-Chair, Health Committee, Canberra

0411 157 113
Twitter: @Health_Privacy

Bernard is an electronic/control engineer with a PhD in computer modelling of the electrical activity in the human small intestine. He has had significant experience in the development of architecture, system design and development of Federal Government and other large scale Information
Systems. He is particularly interested in ensuring that the Information Management aspects of technology based systems are properly identified and incorporated into their design and operation such that issues of privacy, safety and social acceptability are appropriately addressed.

(Dr) Arash Shaghaghi - Melbourne

Arash is a lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Cybersecurity at Deakin University in Melbourne, where he is a member of Centre for Cyber Security Research and Innovation (CSRI) and SPYRIT lab. He is also a Visiting Fellow at the School of Computer Science and Engineering at UNSW Sydney, where he actively collaborates with the Networked Systems and Security Group (NetSyS). Previously, he was a Postdoc at UNSW Sydney for a project funded by NSW Cybersecurity Framework. In the past, Arash has also been a research visitor at the CLOUDS Lab of The University of Melbourne, and The University of Texas at Dallas (UTD). He completed his PhD in Computer Science at UNSW Sydney, MSc Information Security at University College London (UCL), and BSc at Heriot-Watt University.

Arash is an Early Career Researcher (ECR) mostly focused is in the area of System and Network Security. Arash is passionate about developing effective countermeasures to secure organisations against the more powerful threat vectors (e.g., insider threats) with respect to today's emerging technologies such as IoT, blockchain, and Software-Defined Network (SDN). He is also very passionate in developing usable and verifiable Privacy Enhancing Technology (PET) solutions. He is a member of IEEE, ACM, Australian Computer Society (ACS), and Australian Information Security Association (AISA).

David Vaile - CHAIR, Sydney

0414 731 249

David is co-convenor of UNSW's Cyberspace Law and Policy Community (formerly ~Centre), a research and policy group dealing with public interest issues arising from networked transactions and the Internet. The Community and its associates engage with a range of privacy and personal information security-related issues, especially those that affect individuals and businesses engaging with online, social networking and cloud services. He has also worked at the Office of the Federal Privacy Commissioner and Privacy NSW, and with a
range of other organisations including legal services, medical informatics and online content developers