Rate My Professor Roger Clarke

Roger Clarke serves as an Honorary Professor in the ANU School of Computing at the Australian National University. He earned his B.Com. (Hons. I) in Accounting and Financial Management from the University of New South Wales in 1973, M.Com. (Hons.) in Accounting, Finance, and Systems in 1976 from the same institution, and PhD in Data Surveillance: Theory, Practice & Policy from ANU in 1997. His academic career at ANU began as Reader in Information Systems in the Department of Commerce from 1984 to 1995, followed by Visiting Fellow in the Department of Computer Science from 1995 to 2005, and Professor thereafter. Clarke is also a Visiting Professor in Law at UNSW and has held visiting professorships at the University of Hong Kong, University of Bern, and University of Linz. As Principal of Xamax Consultancy Pty Ltd, he focuses on consultancy in strategic and policy implications of advanced information technologies.

Clarke's research interests include the strategic, policy, economic, legal, and social impacts of information technologies, with particular emphasis on dataveillance, privacy, surveillance, AI regulation, and electronic markets. He is a Fellow of the Australian Computer Society (FACS, 1986) and the Association for Information Systems (FAIS, 2012), and received the Australian Privacy Medal in 2009, IFIP Outstanding Service Award in 1992, and multiple outstanding paper awards. He chaired the Australian Privacy Foundation from 2006 to 2014 and served on boards of Privacy International, Electronic Frontiers Australia, and Internet Society of Australia. Notable publications include 'Information technology and dataveillance' (1988), 'The digital persona and its application to data surveillance' (1994), 'Privacy impact assessment: Its origins and development' (2009), 'Big data, big risks' (2016), and recent articles such as 'Robodebt: A Socio-Technical Case Study of Public Sector Information Systems Failure' (2024) and 'Principles for the Responsible Application of Generative AI' (2025). With over 13,600 citations on Google Scholar, his contributions have profoundly shaped discourse in technology policy, privacy law, and information systems.