Christine Runnegar
Senior Policy Advisor, ISOC

Christine Runnegar

Christine Runnegar is a Senior Policy Advisor at the Internet Society, based in Geneva, Switzerland. Her current areas of interest include online IPR issues, privacy and data protection. Christine contributes to the OECD’s work on privacy through the Internet Technical Advisory Committee (ITAC) and APEC’s Data Privacy Pathfinder Project through the APEC ECSG Data Privacy Sub-Group (DPS). She also participates in the Internet Architecture Board (IAB) Privacy Program, and works closely with other Internet technical experts on privacy and provenance.

Prior to joining the Internet Society in early 2009, Christine was a Senior Executive Lawyer employed by the Australian Government Solicitor. As a lawyer for the Australian government, Christine worked in a variety of areas, principally in competition and consumer protection law, but also in administrative law, taxation law, privacy and freedom of information law, corporate regulation and commercial law, information technology, and communications law (specifically spam law).