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Speaker Biographies
Opening
Keynote: Dr. Amir
Attaran, Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa
Dr. Amir Attaran is
both a biologist and lawyer by training, and currently Associate Professor
and Canada Research Chair at the Institute of Population Health and the
Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa.
Dr.
Attaran's research emphasizes the subject of health, development and human
security in developing countries. His interests include: studying the
scarcity of foreign financial aid spent on controlling epidemic and pandemic
diseases; raising the standard of medical technology and care for patients
in the world's developing countries; and applying Canadian and international
human rights law toward crises affecting transnational justice and human
security
Dr.
Attaran has acted as policy advisor to numerous NGOs, the United Nations,
governments and corporations. His past pro bono clients include the
Governments of Brazil and Malawi, Médecins Sans Frontières, Novartis,
Pharmacia, the Sierra Legal Defence Fund, the UN Development Program and the
World Bank.
Full bio can be read
here.
David Fraser, MA, LLB,
McInnes Cooper, Dalhousie Law School
David T.S. Fraser is a
Canadian privacy lawyer who practices with the Canadian firm of McInnes
Cooper. He is counsel to National Privacy Services Inc. and the author of
the Physicians' Privacy Manual. He has a national and international
practice advising corporations and individuals on matters related to
Canadian privacy laws.
Mr.
Fraser is the Vice Chair of the Privacy Law Subsection of the Canadian Bar
Association, Nova Scotia, member-at-large of the National Privacy Law
Section of the Canadian Bar Association and the co-chair of the Privacy
Committee of the Canadian IT Law Association.
Mr.
Fraser is a member of the faculty of Dalhousie Law School where he teaches
Internet and Media Law, Law and Technology, and Law and Policy for
Electronic Commerce. He is on the editorial board of Canada's only computer
law journal, the Canadian Journal of Law and Technology.
In 2006
Mr. Fraser was included in the inaugural edition of The Best Lawyers in
Canada in the category of Information Technology Law, and was also the
recipient of an Outstanding Young Canadian Award by the Junior Chamber of
Commerce International - Halifax Chapter.
Linda McKarney, Senior
Consultant, Barrington Consulting Group
Linda McKarney
has over 22 years of public and private sector experience including 5 years
as Director of Health Information Services at the Nova Scotia Hospital. Ms.
McKarney has also worked with the National Research Council in the Canadian
Bioinformatics Resource Centre as a project manager and with Maritime Life
Assurance Company as their Information Resource Manager.
Specializing in information
privacy and system security safeguards, including mental health and forensic
information, Ms. McKarney has worked collaboratively with stakeholders to
develop and deploy operational policies and procedures that govern the
collection of and access to information. Her practical experience in
organizational privacy and confidentiality, retention, release and
destruction of information has given her valuable insight into everyday
practices where businesses routinely collect personal information.
Darce Fardy, President,
Right to Know Coalition of Nova Scotia;
former Nova Scotia Provincial FOIPOP Review Officer
Mr. Fardy is a former
Review Officer overseeing the Nova Scotia Freedom of
Information and Protection of Privacy (FOIPOP) Act. Prior to that position
Mr. Fardy was long-time journalist, producer and manager with CBC
Television.
Mr. Fardy first joined the CBC as a reporter in St.John’s Newfoundland,
eventually becoming Director of Television for Newfoundland and then
Director of Television for the CBC in Halifax. He has also worked for CBC
Edmonton and in the United Nations newsroom in New York during the General
Assembly session of 1960.
Mr. Fardy retired from the CBC in 1992 after 8 years as Head of Network TV
Current Affairs. He became Nova Scotia’s FOIPOP Review Officer in 1995, a
position he held until his retirement in 2006. Upon retirement, Mr. Fardy
founded the citizen activist group The Right to Know Coalition of Nova
Scotia, of which he currently serves as President.
Dr. Gudrun
Curri, School of Business Administration, Dalhousie University
Gudrun Curri holds a Ph.D. from the School of Management, University of
Bradford, UK and a Master of Arts (M.A.) School of Public Administration,
Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada. She joined the School of Business at
Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada as Associate Professor in 2000, and
teaches Organizational Theory and Change, and International Management at
the undergraduate and graduate level. She has been asked to lead the team
that will be renewing the MBA program for implementation in September 2008.
Prior to joining the faculty, Gudrun Curri served 25 years as Registrar at
two major Canadian University: Dalhousie University and University of
Toronto in Scarborough. In that capacity, she introduced major
organizational changes in:
student information systems, process re-engineering, customer service
culture, marketing strategies, and staff development and training. She is
considered an accomplished organizational change agent and consultant. As a
member of the senior university administration team, she participated in
decision-making processes at both administrative and academic levels. She
served on numerous committees inside and outside the university, as member
or chair.
Mark Leggott,
University Librarian, University of Prince Edward Island
Currently
University Librarian at the University of Prince Edward Island, Mark Leggott
was previously University Librarian at the University of Winnipeg, where he
also served as Associate Dean of Education (Extended Learning) and the
Director of the Global Information Commons Centre.
Prior to his time in
Winnipeg, Mr. Leggott was Systems Librarian and Director of the Media Forge
at St. Francis Xavier University and Production Manager at Optim Corporation
in Ottawa. He has taught in the Computer Science department at St. Francis
Xavier University and at the former School of Library and Information
Studies at Dalhousie.
Mr.
Leggott has a wealth of experience in the development of innovative
resources and services and is a frequent lecturer in the Canadian library
community. He has a keen interest in the philosophy of the open source
movement.
Ingrid Parent, Assistant
Deputy Minister, Documentary Heritage Collection Sector, Library Archives
Canada
After graduating from
the University of British Columbia with degrees in history and in library
science, Ingrid Parent began her professional career as a cataloguer at the
National Library of Canada where she also worked on the development of the
first Canadian MARC format for the creation and exchange of bibliographic
information. She then worked in the Division du traitement, Université Laval
in Quebec City and contributed to the development of the standards and
procedures for one of the first cooperative cataloguing programs among
Canadian libraries.
From
1994 to 2004, she was Director General of Acquisitions and Bibliographic
Services at the National Library of Canada, responsible for the development
of the Library’s collections, the organization of information, and standards
development. Ms. Parent is currently the Assistant Deputy Minister for the
Documentary Heritage Collection Sector at Library and Archives Canada
responsible for the development, the organization and the preservation of
the Canadian documentary heritage. She is also co-leading the development of
the Canadian Digital Information Strategy.
In
addition to her duties at Library and Archives Canada, she was elected in
1999 to the Governing Board of the International Federation of Library
Associations and Institutions (IFLA) and was served as IFLA Treasurer until
August 2005. She is currently the Chair of the IFLA Section on National
Libraries.
Ms.
Parent’s related professional interests include participating in the
development of international standards, as well as working actively with
other national libraries and archives in collection, preservation and access
to information, including digital material. She is a member of the Committee
of Principals that oversees the development of the Anglo-American
Cataloguing Rules, of the Canadian Advisory Committee to OCLC, and of the
Advisory Board to CISTI. She has written several articles for library and
information science journals on topics related to professional and
management issues, and has given several presentations nationally and
internationally.
Closing Keynote:
Dr. Elizabeth Kelley
Inaugural Dalhousie-Horrocks Leadership Lecture
Currently in her fourth career, Elizabeth Kelley is an Assistant Professor
at Dalhousie’s School of Business Administration, with a cross-appointment
in the School of Information Management. She holds a BA (English), MBA and
PhD (Management) from Saint Mary’s University and an MLS from the University
of Toronto.
Prior to joining the
academy, Dr. Kelley worked in human resources planning and development for a
major Nova Scotian corporation. Before spending 10 years in the corporate
sphere, she worked as a professional librarian in government and industry,
and later as an information consultant to corporations and nonprofit
organizations.
In the
late 1990s Dr. Kelley discovered her love for teaching and primary research,
which led her to doctoral studies and eventually to her current position at
Dalhousie. Her research interests centre on leadership, particularly in a
remote or virtual environment, and on contextual influences on management
theory and practice.
Dr.
Kelley was recently awarded the prestigious Excellence in Teaching Award at
the Dalhousie Faculty of Management and was named a Highly Commended Award
winner of the 2006 Emerald/EFMD Outstanding Doctoral Research Award in the
category of leadership and organizational development.
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