About the IAPP

Dave Morgan is the principal consultant for Morgan Privacy Consulting, a full-service privacy consulting firm based in St. John’s, NL. A scientist by education, Dave has experience in technology, healthcare, research ethics, government, and the community sector.

Following his time working in privacy software, Dave led the privacy portfolio at the NL Centre for Health Information, where he contributed to the development of the provincial Electronic Health Record. While at the Centre for Health Information, Dave co-chaired the Canada Health Infoway Pan-Canadian Health Information Privacy Group which won the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP) Privacy Innovation Award in 2014 for its work developing pan-Canadian common understandings for health information privacy.

Following a brief period working as a sea ice engineering researcher, Dave returned to information privacy as a consultant, establishing Morgan Privacy Consulting. Since 2016, Dave has been providing privacy consulting services to clients across Canada. In 2017, Dave chaired the statutory review of the Newfoundland and Labrador Personal Health Information Act.

Dave has a Ph.D. in Computing Science from the University of Alberta, holds the FIP, CIPM, CIPP/C, and CIPP/US designations from the IAPP, and has completed the Fundamentals of OCAP® course from the First Nations Information Governance Centre. Dave is an active contributor to the privacy community, having authored academic and professional articles, spoken at provincial, national, and international conferences, and served on advisory boards of the IAPP.