Caspar Bowden
Caspar Bowden is director of the Foundation for Information Policy Research (FIPR), an independent non-profit organisation based in London which studies the interaction between information technology and society, identifies technical developments with significant social impact, and commissions research into public policy alternatives.
Co-organiser of the Scrambling for Safety public conferences on UK cryptography policy, he was formerly an e-commerce and Internet security consultant, senior researcher of an option-arbitrage trading firm, a financial strategist with Goldman Sachs, and chief algorithm designer for a virtual reality software house.
FIPR monitors issues affecting civil rights and privacy, freedom of expression, democratic governance, the accountability and efficiency of public administration, and social cohesion. The Foundation is funded from donations by individual and corporate sponsors. However, sponsors have no influence over general or specific policy; independence is guaranteed by a board of trustees who take advice on policy and strategy from an Advisory Council of experts.