Newfoundland & Labrador Access & Privacy Workshop 2007: Building on our success

Kris Klein practices exclusively in the area of privacy law for the Privacy Commissioner Canada. Mr. Klein previously practiced with a national law firm and the Federal Department of Justice. He teaches the Privacy Law course at Ottawa University's Law School and he has written extensively on this subject. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the monthly newsletter entitled the "Klein-Kratachanov Report" that reports on developments in the areas of freedom to information and privacy. Mr. Klein's experience in both the private and public sectors provides a particularly insightful and practical analysis found in his texts: "The Law of Privacy in Canada" and "Privacy in Employment: Control of Personal Information in the Workplace."

He is native to Ottawa and studied in a specialized Geographic Information Systems program at Carleton University. He is active within his community, serves on the Board of Directors of Bronson Centre and of the Canadian Lacrosse Foundation, and coaches hockey and soccer.

Carla Heggie is the National Chair for the Canadian Association of Professional Access & Privacy Administrators [CAPAPA]. Her primary focus in this area is the professional development of access & privacy specialists and the promotion of CAPAPA as a national organization of professionals. Ms.Heggie is the Information Access & Privacy Manager for NS Environment & Labour. She has been working in the policy area of access and privacy since the early 1990's and has been administering FOIPOP for about a decade. A graduate of Dalhousie University with a degree in political behaviourism and labour economics, this spring Ms.Heggie completed the Information Access and Protection of Privacy [IAPP] Certificate Program at the University of Alberta. Ms.Heggie also sits on the National Advisory Committee for the IAPP Program at the U of A.

Susan NormanÕs specialties are Corporate/Commercial, Entertainment Law, and the increasingly important and complicated field of Technology and Intellectual Property. Also an excellent litigator, Susan received both her under-graduate science and law degrees from University of Western Ontario.

Sandy Hounsell has been employed with the Newfoundland and Labrador provincial government for 18 years. From 1995 to 1998 he was Manager of Operations with the Government Service Centre. From 1998 to 2002 he was Manager of the High Sheriff's Office and in April of 2002 he was appointed to the position of Director of Access to Information and Protection of Privacy with the Department of Justice. In January of 2005 he was appointed to his current position of Executive Director of the Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner. He is also an Instructor with the Law Society of Newfoundland and Labrador Bar Admission Course, Chairperson of the Holy Family School Council in Paradise and is a Certified Public Health Inspector. My Hounsell was also recently elected as the President of the Newfoundland and Labrador Federation of School Councils.

Mr. Hounsell has a Bachelor of Applied Science degree from Ryerson Polytechnic University in Toronto, a Master of Business Administration degree from Memorial University and is a Fellow of the School of Graduate Studies at Memorial University. In addition, Mr. Hounsell is a recipient of the 2001 Public Service Award of Excellence. Mr. Hounsell has spoken extensively on access and privacy issues throughout the Province of Newfoundland and Labrador. He has also spoken on these issues both nationally and internationally.

RenŽe Pendergast, has been employed with the Provincial Government for the last 10 years. Her background is Computer Science, and Information Management. She began her career as an instructor at the College of the North Atlantic, in the Computer Science Faculty. In 2004, she took a position with the Department of Justice at the Royal Newfoundland Constabulary, as their Manager of Information Services. She recently left the RNC to move to the ATIPP office as Manager/Facilitator of Training.

Kevin is the President and a founding principal of Plato. Plato's focus includes privacy enhancing software, as well as information privacy, healthcare and human resource IT consulting, with a client base throughout North America. Kevin holds Bachelor and Masters Degrees in Business Administration, supplemented by almost 20 years experience in IT, business development, and strategic planning. Prior to forming Plato in 1997, he spent upwards of 10 years in the telecommunications and information technology sector.

Richard Neuman is a professor of pharmacology at Memorial University and Co-chair of the Human Investigation Committee (HIC), the joint biomedical REB of Memorial University Faculty of Medicine and Eastern Health. Richard is a member of the transition team responsible for implementing the act creating a Health Research Ethics Authority for Newfoundland and Labrador. Richard is also a board member of the Canadian Association of Research Ethics Boards.

Rosemary is Information Access and Privacy Protection Coordinator for Memorial University of Newfoundland. Her responsibilities include establishing policy, guidelines and best practices in access and privacy, managing access to information requests, and delivering education and training to administrative and academic offices on three campuses of the university. Rosemary is a member of the inaugural graduating class (2004) of the University of Alberta's Information Access and Privacy Protection Program. She serves the Canadian Association of Professional Access and Privacy Administrators as Acting Treasurer and Regional Representative for Newfoundland and Labrador.

Angela Yetman is a Senior Privacy Analyst in the ATIPP Office, Department of Justice. She has a Bachelor of Arts Degree and an Applied Ethics Diploma from Memorial University of Newfoundland. She has recently completed an Information Access and Protection of Privacy (IAPP) Certificate from the University of Alberta and is currently pursuing a MasterÕs of Arts Ð Integrated Studies from Athabasca University. Angela has extensive experience with qualitative and quantitative Social Science research, both within and outside the healthcare setting. In assisting the Principal Investigator and Health Research Unit she has been acting as a Coordinator for the Privacy Study since 2005. In addition to this role she has been pursuing her career in privacy holding various roles within the Faculty of Medicine, the Newfoundland and Labrador Centre for Health Information and now the Department of Justice.