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EU specialist; member of the expert group of the privacy committee of the Bioimetrics Institute, London; elected European woman of Europe award for work on making EU understandable by public of all ages;
EU specialist; member of the expert group of the privacy committee of the Bioimetrics Institute, London; elected European woman of Europe award for work on making EU understandable by public of all ages; extensive experience of working with EU institutions, parliaments and governments; reports on specialist areas including egovernment; border management and biometrics; ehealth and social care; cross border information exchange; experienced in writing for press (UK, NZ), for trade and professional association journals; writing press releases, media briefings etc; currently Director Jean Monnet European Centre of Excellence, University of Leeds; work in several languages; experienced radio and tv interviewee
Specialist areas
biometrics for daily purposes, privacy, data protection, tracking, border management and controls, biometric passports, brain machine interfaces, ICTs, EU politics, policies, institution, constitution, internal security, Identity cards and fraud, ehealth, social care cross border police and judicial cooepration using information technologies European Parliament elections, parties, role, powers, relations with national parliaments, EU policies. egovernment ehealth, IT and the disabled,