​Head of the Department of Information Policy & Governance http://www.um.edu.mt/maks/ipg at the Faculty of Media & Knowledge Sciences of the University of Malta. Also Full Professor, holding the Chair of European Information Policy & Technology Law http://www.rug.nl/staff/j.a.cannataci/ within the Faculty of Law, University of Groningen, The Netherlands and is additionally an Adjunct Professor at the Security Research Institute & School of Computer and Security Science, Edith Cowan University Australia www.secau.org.
Vice-Chairman/Chairman of Council of Europe's (CoE) Commmittee of Experts on Data Protection 1992-1998, Working Parties on: Data Protection and New technologies (1995-2000); Data Protection & Insurance (1994-1998); CoE Rapporteur on Data Protection and Police (1993; 2010; 2012); CoE Expert Consultant on Data Protection and Cybercrime (2012-2014); UNESCO Expert Consultant on Privacy & Transparency on the Internet (2015); Scientific Co-ordinator of multiple EU FP7 & H2020 research projects focussing on privacy. Decorated by the Republic of France as Officier de l'Ordre de Palmes Academiques (2002).
Appointed UN Special Rapporteur on Privacy in 2015. His latest book The Individual and Privacy was published by Ashgate in March 2015.
