Dr. Dawn Jutla is an award-winning, multi-disciplinary researcher and full professor in the Department of Finance, Information Systems, and Management Science at the Sobey School of Business, Saint Mary's University. She received her undergraduate degree from the University of the West Indies, and both her Masters and PhD degrees in Computer Science from the Technical University of Nova Scotia. Her 1996 PhD work on multi-view access control has been cited in Xerox, IBM, and Koninklijke Philips Electronics' US patents. Her subsequent research work, funded by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, has received over 600 citations and is internationally recognized in the area of information system design and models for electronic business, electronic government, and online privacy. Her journal articles have appeared in prestigious and high-impact venues such as the Communications of the ACM, Information Systems, IEEE Security and Privacy, IEEE Computer, International Journal of Electronic Business, and the Internet Research Journal: Electronic Networking Applications and Policy . Dawn is the 2009 winner of the World Technology Award for IT Software in the Individual Category.