Mike Gurski is the Director of the Bell Privacy Centre of Excellence and the Privacy Strategist for Bell Canada. He is an active member of the International Security Trust and Privacy Alliance working to develop ISO standards for privacy. Prior to joining Bell, he chaired an international Privacy Enhancing Technology Testing and Evaluation Project to develop privacy evaluation standards. He also acted as the Chief Technology Advisor at Ontario's Information and Privacy Commission. He is on the Board of the Privacy Enhancing Technology (PET) Research Workshop, and chairs the international PET Executive Briefing Conference. Mike is also a founding member of the 'The Privacy Network', a knowledge exchange network to link various privacy communities in Canada.

Mr. Gurski has published articles on e-mail encryption and P3P (Platform for Privacy Preferences), a privacy specification for the Web. He has written papers on Privacy Design Principles and Privacy Impact Assessments for Integrated Justice Technology Systems in partnership with the United States Justice Department's Office of Justice Programs.

Mr. Gurski is a frequent speaker on privacy issues and a guest lecturer at several MBA schools and universities in Canada and abroad. He holds degrees from the University of Waterloo's School of Architecture and from St. Jerome's University's Faculty of Arts.