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David Flaherty is a specialist in the management of privacy and information policy issues. He served a six-year, non-renewable term as the first Information and Privacy Commissioner for the Province of British Columbia (1993-99). Mr. Flaherty is an Honours graduate of McGill University (1962) and has an MA and Ph.D. from Columbia University. His teaching career, from 1965 to 1993, included Princeton University, the University of Virginia, and the University of Western Ontario, where he was professor of history and law from 1972 to 1999 and from which he is now a professor emeritus. He has held fellowships and scholarships at Harvard, Oxford, Stanford, and Georgetown Universities. Mr. Flaherty is currently an adjunct professor in political science at the University of Victoria. As a consultant, Mr. Flaherty’s services for clients include strategic advice on the management of privacy issues and of relationships with privacy authorities, privacy advocates, and the general public; conducting overall assessments of privacy compliance (privacy reviews, audits, site visits); preparing Privacy Impact Assessments; and developing privacy codes to comply with the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (and its provincial equivalents). Mr. Flaherty is now also a member of the first External Advisory Committee to the Privacy Commissioner of Canada.