Next>Dr. Iván Székely

Dr. Iván Székely is an internationally known expert in the multidisciplinary fields of data protection and freedom of information. A long-time independent researcher, consultant and university lecturer, former chief counsellor of the Hungarian Parliamentary Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information, Székely is at present Counsellor of the Open Society Archives at Central European University in Budapest.

As a social informatist, he has been dealing with theoretial and practical aspects of openness and secrecy since 1984. He has written some 30 major studies connected with research and consulting activities, and about 60 notable publications, including 5 monographs. As a regular conference lecturer, he has had presentations at about 80 professional events, including over 20 lectures at international conferences and seminars.

A leader of the first privacy and data protection research in Hungary and in the region (1989–90), he conducted the first Hungarian survey on data protection and information privacy in the media (1990).

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