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

Alice Sturgeon

Title: Senior Director, Accessibility, Identity Management, Security Information Privacy and Security Policies Division
Chief Information Office Branch, Treasury Board of Canada, Secretariat

Download presentation slides (ppt) here.

Alice Sturgeon manages the area that is accountable for two new Government of Canada programs: Accessibility and Identity Management.  As well she manages the GC Security Program and Security Policy.  Over the past several months, Alice has also been involved in the Government’s initiative on Avian and Pandemic Influenza Planning and Business Continuity Management.

Ms. Sturgeon previously was in the Enterprise Architecture and Standards Division of CIOB/TBS, as senior director in the domains of privacy, security and accessibility.  In both capacities, Ms. Sturgeon has been responsible for design and development of frameworks for leadership and coordination in emerging areas, notably as Accessibility and Identity Management.  The frameworks encompass policy instruments – policy, standards, guidelines and tools – and leverage the power and applicability of technologies such as biometrics, smart tokens, public key encryption, and emphasize common and shared systems. 

Ms. Sturgeon spent 19 years in the Government of Canada, the first twelve at the Communications Security Establishment in a variety of intelligence and security positions, and then seven years at the Treasury Board of Canada, Secretariat, in the field of Government Security Policy and Standards.  From 1998 to 2004, Ms. Sturgeon was the chief policy and security officer at SPYRUS, Inc., a cryptographic product and service company headquartered in San Jose, California. 

Ms. Sturgeon participates extensively in international standardization in the fields of information technology security, biometrics, smart tokens, accessibility, and security in general; from this, she promotes the re-use and adaptation of international standards for consistency, international competitiveness and compatibility.  Ms. Sturgeon has a Masters degree in International Politics and Economics from Carleton University in Ottawa Canada, where she currently lives and works.

Contact Information:
Email: sturgeon.alice@tbs-sct.gc.ca
Phone: 1-613-948-9475
Mail:
CIOB/TBS
6th Floor, 2745 Iris Street,
Ottawa Ontario
K1A 0R5
CANADA

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This event is sponsored by the Faculty of Information Studies,  University of Toronto with a grant
from the Stepping UP Academic Initiatives Fund, and by the SSHRC-funded
Information Policy Research Program's Digital Identity Construction project.