Mary Culnan
Slade Professor of Management and Information Technology, Bentley College
Mary Culnan is the Slade Professor of Management and Information Technology at Bentley where she conducts research, consults and teaches graduate and undergraduate courses on information privacy. Her current research is addressing how to improve the usability and readability of online privacy notices.
She has published in a number of academic journals including Management Science, the MIS Quarterly, Organization Science, the Journal of Public Policy and Marketing, and Decision Sciences and is a co-author of the Ethics of Information Management (Sage, 1995).
Professor Culnan has testified before Congress and other government agencies on a range of privacy issues. In 1997, she served as a Commissioner on the President's Commission on Critical Infrastructure Protection. She is also the author of the 1999 Georgetown Internet Privacy Policy Survey which the Federal Trade Commission used to make recommendations to Congress, and she served on the FTC's Advisory Committee on Access and Security. In March 1999, Business Week's e-biz Web site profiled her as a "Mover & Shaker." Currently she serves on the GAO's Executive Committee on Information Management and Technology.
She was employed for seven years as a systems analyst by the Burroughs Corporation prior to earning her Ph.D. in management from UCLA. Prior to joining the faculty at Bentley in fall 2000, she held faculty positions at the University of Virginia, University of California, Berkeley, the American University and Georgetown University.
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Biography last updated May 15, 2003