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External Advisory Board
The Institute receives guidance from an External Advisory Board, which includes privacy experts from academia, government and industry. Members include:
· Martin Abrams, Center for Information Policy Leadership, USA
· Dr. Ann Cavoukian, Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario, Canada
· Dr. Lorrie Cranor, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA
· Malcolm Crompton, former Federal Privacy Commissioner, Australia
· Prof. Mary Culnan, Bentley College, USA
· Prof. Simone Fischer-Hübner, Dept. of Computer Science, Karlstad University, Sweden
· Marit Hansen, Head of Section "Privacy Enhancing Technologies", Independent Centre for Privacy Protection, Germany
· Dr. Tatsuaki Okamoto, NTT, Japan
· Prof. Alexander Rossnagel, Univ of Giessen, Germany
· Prof. Pierangela Samarati, Univ. Milano, Italy

In addition, the Institute maintains close links with the members of the IBM Privacy Management Council.

In no event shall the participation in the External Advisory Board or its proceedings, evaluation of the Evaluation Materials or Related Information, or testing of any products constitute an endorsement of any IBM product.

Organization
The Privacy Research Institute is overseen by an Executive Committee comprising senior executives across IBM. John Karat and Matthias Schunter have been named institute executives, supervising the Institute's day-to-day activities. More than 40 scientists from IBM Research around the world are dedicated to privacy-related technology, exploring how technology can help preserve individual privacy while helping enterprises provide better services based on good customer data.
   
IBM Executive Board  
The Institute receives guidance from an Executive Board, which includes Harriet Pearsson, IBM's chief privacy officer.

 

   
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