Jay Fedorak

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Jersey Channel Islands

Information Commissioner

Dr Jay Fedorak was appointed Information Commissioner for the Jersey (Channel Islands) Data Protection Authority in July 2018. He previously served for six years as Deputy Commissioner to the Information and Privacy Commissioner for British Columbia, five years of which he was also the Deputy Registrar of Lobbyists. He has 25 years of experience in the field of privacy and Freedom of Information, as a regulator and in the public service of the Province of British Columbia as a practitioner. Jay holds an MA and PhD in International History from the London School of Economics. He is an expert in the field of Great Britain and Europe during the 18th and 19th centuries and the author of ‘Henry Addington, Prime Minister, 1801-1804: Peace, War, and Parliamentary Politics’. Jay has taught history at the London School of Economics, Royal Roads Military College, the University of Victoria, and Simon Fraser University.