Global Challenges for Identity Policies

The goals of this book are to provide a comprehensive review of identity policies as they are being implemented in various countries around the world, to consider the key arenas where identity policies are developed and to provide intellectual coherence for making sense of these various activities.


EDGAR A. WHITLEY is the Reader in Information Systems in the Department of Management at the London School of Economics and Political Science, UK. Edgar's research interests include identity management, privacy and consent. He is co-editor of the journal Information Technology and People. For more information please see http://personal.lse.ac.uk/whitley.

GUS HOSEIN is a Visiting Senior Fellow at the London School of Economics and Political Science where he lectures and researches on technology policy. He is a Senior Fellow with Privacy International in London where he co-ordinates international research and campaigns on civil liberties. He is also a Visiting Scholar at the American Civil Liberties Union, advising on international technology and liberty issues. He advises a number of international, governmental, non-governmental, and private sector organisations on data governance, civil liberties, and privacy. Most recently, he advised the United Nations Refugees Agency and the UN Special Rapporteur on Terrorism and Human Rights. He has a B.Math from the University of Waterloo and a PhD from the University of London. He is also a Fellow of the British Computer Society (FBCS CITP) and a Fellow of the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (FRSA). For more information please see http://personal.lse.ac.uk/hosein