Dr. Khaled El Emam

Scholar-in-Residence at the Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario

Dr. Khaled El Emam is the Scholar-in-Residence at the Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario where he is contributing to guidance on privacy enhancing technologies, including specifically de-identification methods. He is also a Canada Research Chair (Tier 1) in Medical AI at the University of Ottawa, where he is a Professor in the School of Epidemiology and Public Health, and a Senior Scientist at the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario Research Institute. Khaled has founded or co-founded six product and services companies involved with data management and data analytics, with some having successful exits. Prior to his academic roles, he was a Senior Research Officer at the National Research Council of Canada. He also served as the head of the Quantitative Methods Group at the Fraunhofer Institute in Kaiserslautern, Germany. He has a PhD from the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, King’s College, at the University of London, England.