Bio
Professor Marion Oswald is a Senior Research Associate at the Alan Turing Institute and Professor in Law at Northumbria University. Marion is a lawyer with over 30 years’ experience spanning several contexts: law firms, international technology businesses, central government including national security, academia, and oversight functions. She researches the interaction between law and digital technology, with a particular interest in the human rights, ethics and use of data analytics within policing and intelligence agencies.
Marion works in the intersection between practice, policy and academia, and her research has made distinctive contributions in respect of privacy, fair decision-making and AI and the way that data is acted upon by the public sector. She chairs the West Midlands Police & Crime Commissioner and West Midlands Police data ethics committee and is a member of the New Zealand Police independent advisory panel on emerging technologies.
She is an Associate Fellow of the Royal United Services Institute, and has acted as Specialist Adviser to the House of Lords Justice and Home Affairs Committee and as a member of the independent Advisory Board of the Government’s Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation. She currently sits on the Home Office’s Biometrics and Forensics Ethics Group.