Moderated by:
Bob Carty
CBC radio producer and Canadian Journalists for Free Expression (CJFE)

Presentations by:
Alice Sturgeon
Senior Director, Accessibility, Identity Management and Security, Treasury Board Secretariat

Gus Hosein
Visiting Fellow, London School of Economics & Senior Fellow, Privacy International

Neville Pattinson,
Director of Marketing and Government Affairs, Gemalto

Stephanie Perrin
Director, Research and Policy,
Office of the Privacy Commissioner, Canada

Bob Carty

Bob Carty is an Ottawa-based documentary producer for THE SUNDAY EDITION and THE CURRENT on CBC Radio One.

Prior to entering journalism Bob Carty worked in the field of human rights and international development focussing on Latin America. He was co-author of Perpetuating Poverty: The political-economy of Canadian Foreign Aid (1981). In 1981 he joined the CBC becoming foreign editor and later senior producer for the radio programme SUNDAY MORNING.  He also worked for shorter periods for the CBC Radio programmes AS IT HAPPENS, COMMENTARY and as senior producer of MORNINGSIDE.  In the late 1980s, he spent five years in Central America covering military conflicts, human rights, development and ecological issues throughout Latin America for the CBC, National Public Radio, Monitor Radio, and the Globe and Mail.

Returning to Canada in 1993, Carty resumed full-time documentary work for SUNDAY MORNING and later for the new CBC current affairs programme THIS MORNING. He also participates in special investigative projects with CBC TV and Radio News. His radio documentaries have won numerous awards including a prestigious Peabody Award and a Gabriel Award.  Other prizes include the New York International Radio Festival Gold Award and Grand Award, the Canadian Association of Journalists award for investigative journalism, the Canadian Science Writers’ award, Amnesty International of Canada’s award for human rights reporting, and a special United Nations recognition for programming which reinforces the values of the U.N. system.

Carty is a member of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) and is active in freedom of expression issues as a board member of Canadian Journalists for Free Expression (CJFE) and he is one of the founders of the International Freedom of Expression eXchange (IFEX).

bob_carty@cbc.ca
(613) 730-1007

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