He also spent three years as Chief Executive of the Authors Licensing and Collecting Society (looking after the intellectual property revenues of all UK authors and journalists).
Chris has edited numerous books and journals and worked as a translator (English/French/German/Italian/Polish). He has published non-fiction, fiction, poetry and journalism, and has spoken at conferences on intellectual property, development, ethics and knowledge management. Chris has recently finished writing a travel book called Afreekinout and a TV script based on The Death of the King’s Canary, by Dylan Thomas and John Davenport.
Current activities includes a proposed TV series based on Bob Hambleton’s Sarina stories, journalism and consultancy work, and a real estate project in Zambia.
Chris has been:
CREATIVE INDUSTRIES
Director, International Association of Audiovisual Writers and Directors, 7/96-4/99
Director, Educational Recording Agency, 7/96-4/99
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
Director, Copyright Licensing Agency, 7/96-4/99
Member, British Copyright Council, 7/96-4/99, and member, Technology WG, 4/98-4/99
TECHNOLOGY
Elected to Board of Directors, International Digital Object Identifier Foundation, 8/98-4/99
Member, World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) Standing Committee on Information
Technologies Task Force, 7/98-4/09
Member, International Telecommunications Union (ITU) Forum Programme Committee, 3/98-6/02
INFORMATION ETHICS
UK Joint Information Systems Committee Outreach Advisor 97-08
Founder member (elected to Board), Coalition on Public Information, 97-99
Founder and Chair, Special Interest Group on Information Ethics, International Federation for
Information and Documentation (FID), 10/99-12/01
FID representative, UNESCO InfoEthics Advisory Committee, 5/00-12/01
INTERNET AND COMPUTER ETHICS
Elected to Steering Group of the Internet Societal Taskforce, 2/00-1/01
Vice-Chair, International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) Working Group 9.2 on Social
Accountability, member of special interest group on Ethics of Computing
Member, Ethics Expert Panel, British Computer Society, 8/01-7/07. Honoured with professional qualification (MBCS)
BIOETHICS AND HEALTH
Member, WHO Research Ethics Review Committee—appointed by WHO’s Director-General: 6/04-7/05 and 2/06-1/08
Non-executive director, Healthlink Worldwide, 1/97–9/04
Non-executive director, Partnerships in Health Information 6/97–3/02
GOVERNMENT
Member, UK Public Lending Right Advisory Board, 7/96-4/99
Member, CEDARS Advisory Board, 6/98-5/99
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