Mark B. Salter is an assistant professor at the School of Political Studies, University of Ottawa. He received a Master's from the London School of Economics and a doctorate from the University of British Columbia. He is currently researching the use of risk management in Canadian border policing and editing a collection entitled Politics of/at the Airport. He is the author of Rights of Passage: the passport in international relations, and editor with Elia Zureik of Global Policing and Surveillance: borders, security identity. He has also been a consulting researcher for the Canadian Air Transport Security Authority and Transport Canada and presented at the Canadian Aviation Security Conference and the AVSEC World conference in 2006.