Roger Clarke

Roger Clarke is a consultant in the management of information and information technology. He has spent 40 years in the IT industry, as professional, manager, consultant and academic. His focus during the last 20 years has been on eBusiness, information infrastructure, and dataveillance and privacy. His work encompasses corporate strategy, government policy, and public advocacy.

He is Principal of Xamax Consultancy Pty Ltd, Canberra. His many papers are available on his personal web-site, which attracts over 3 million hits p.a. and has accumulated more than 30 million hits since it was launched in 1995. He holds degrees in Information Systems from University of NSW, and a doctorate from the ANU. He was made a Fellow of the Australian Computer Society in 1986.

He is a Visiting Professor in the Cyberspace Law & Policy Centre at the University of NSW, a Visiting Professor in the E-Commerce Programme at the University of Hong Kong, and a Visiting Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the Australian National University. He has been a Board member of the Australian Privacy Foundation since its inception in 1987.