About the Author

Dan Svantesson is a Professor at the Faculty of Law at Bond University, a research fellow at Masaryk University (Czech Republic), and an Associated Researcher at the Swedish Law & Informatics Research Institute, Stockholm University. He specialises in international aspects of the IT society, a field within which he has published a range of books and articles, and given presentations in Australia, Asia, North America and Europe.

Dan held an ARC Future Fellowship (2012-2016) and was the inaugural Managing Editor for International Data Privacy Law, published by Oxford University Press. He is a Member of the Editorial Boards for several journals, including the Commonwealth Cybercrime Journal, the International Cybersecurity Law Review, the International Journal of Law and Information Technology, the Commonwealth Law Bulletin, the International Review of Law Computers and Technology, the Masaryk University Journal of Law and Technology and the Computer Law and Security Review.

Professor Svantesson has contributed to commissioned reports by several international organisations including the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, OECD, the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, the Commonwealth Secretariat, and the Internet & Jurisdiction Policy Network. He has been identified as the Field Leader for “Technology Law” in a study published by League of Scholars together with The Australian for four years (2021, 2020, 2019, 2018). In 2022, his Chocolate Baltic Porter was the highest scoring beer (out of 580 competing beers) in the Queensland Amateur Brewing Championship.