Charles D. Raab is Professor Emeritus and Honorary Professorial Fellow, University of Edinburgh. Formerly Professor of Government (1999-2007) and member of staff since 1964. Formerly Visiting Fellow at the Oxford Internet Institute, Visiting Professor at the Tilburg Institute for Law, Technology, and Society (Tilburg University, The Netherlands), Visiting Scholar at Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Fellow at the Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg (Institute for Advanced Study) in Delmenhorst, Germany. Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA) and Academician of the Academy of Social Sciences (AcSS).

 

Main general research interests in public policy, governance and regulation, more specifically in information policy (privacy protection and public access to information), privacy and surveillance, and information technology in democratic politics, government and commerce. Research funded by ESRC, Nuffield Foundation, National Science Foundation (USA), European Commission, Scottish Office, and Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland.

 

Advisory and consultancy work for UK and Scottish government departments, Office of the Information Commissioner, European Commission, New Zealand Law Commission, Liberty, DEMOS, Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO), and others. Specialist Adviser to House of Lords Select Committee on the Constitution for their inquiry, Surveillance: Citizens and the State, 2nd Report, Session 2008-09, HL Paper 18. Member of editorial or advisory boards of nine journals, advisory boards of several research projects. Member of Surveillance Studies Network, Scottish Privacy Forum, Institute for the Study of Science, Technology and Innovation (ISSTI, University of Edinburgh), International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) working groups. Participation in Canadian-funded project on ‘The New Transparency: Surveillance and Social Sorting’, and in COST/LiSS. Many books, articles and other publications in research fields.