The Information Without Borders Committee is excited to announce that Carla Heggie will be speaking at the 2017 conference, at the privacy and security panel.
Carla Heggie has been working in information access and privacy for over 25 years, retiring from the Nova Scotia Provincial Government early this year after 28 years in the information policy field. She has spent many years as a presenter on the topics of information access, privacy, privacy risk, and the IAP profession.
She is now concentrating her focus on the field of privacy, patient privacy in health research, and risk management through her consulting company Teal Creative Thinking. Prior to retirement from government, as Information Access & Privacy Manager for NS Labour and Advanced Education, she developed the Business Continuity Plan and a Risk Management Framework for that department.
An alumni of Dalhousie University, with an undergrad degree in political science and economics, Ms,Heggie holds an IAPP Certificate in Information Access & Privacy at the University of Alberta, holds a CIAPP Masters Certification from the Canadian Institute of Access & Privacy Professionals, and studied enterprise risk management at the University of Toronto.
Ms.Heggie developed and teaches the MLIS elective The Culture of Privacy at the School of Information Management at Dalhousie University. Currently she is working on a syllabus for the Management of Privacy for the MIM Program.