Short BIO

Charles D. Raab is Professor Emeritus and Honorary Professorial Fellow, School of Social and Political Science, University of Edinburgh. He was Professor of Government, and has held other visiting positions. Research interests include public policy, governance, regulation, information policy and practice, privacy, surveillance. He has researched and published extensively, e.g. (with C. Bennett), The Governance of Privacy (2006), and (with Surveillance Studies Network), A Report on the Surveillance Society (2006; 2010 update) for the UK's ICO. He is involved in several EU 7th Framework projects on privacy, surveillance, security, etc. He has advised and consulted for governmental and other bodies in the UK, the EU, New Zealand and the Netherlands. He was Specialist Adviser, House of Lords Constitution Committee for Surveillance: Citizens and the State (2008-09), HL Paper 18. He is a Founding member of the Scottish Privacy Forum, and a board member of many journals and research projects. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA) and an Academician of the Academy of Social Sciences (UK).

 

CPDP Conferences

Member of the scientific committee.

 

CPDP Conference 2012

Hosting of the CPDP2012 panel 'Data Protection Authorities: The Question of Indepence'

 

CPDP Conference 2011

The Surveillance of Financial Information: Exchange and Protection of Personal Data.

[also Moderator of the Panel on ‘What is on the National and International Data Protection Agenda?’]

I will highlight recent regulatory issues and policy developments concerning the surveillance of financial information, and the exchange and protection of personal data.

 

On-line publications

1. Charles Raab, Kirstie Ball, Steve Graham, David Lyon, David Murakami Wood,
and Clive Norris (2010), The Surveillance Society: An update report on developments since
the 2006 Report on the Surveillance Society by members of the Surveillance Studies Network
(Part B of Information Commissioner’s report to Parliament on the state of surveillance),
http://www.ico.gov.uk/news/~/media/documents/library/Corporate/Research_and_reports

surveillance_report_for_home_select_committee.ashx

2. Charles D. Raab (2010), ‘Information Privacy: Networks of Regulation at the Subglobal Level’,
Global Policy, 3,1, pp. 291-302,
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1758-5899.2010.00030.x/pdf

3. Perri 6, Christine Bellamy and Charles Raab (2010), Information-sharing dilemmas in
public services: using frameworks from risk management, Policy & Politics, 38, 3, pp. 465-81,
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/tpp/pap/2010/00000038/00000003/art00009