Dr Ian Oliver is a privacy officer and software engineer specialising in the construction of information systems with privacy as an inherent property. He has taken ideas from safety-critical systems development, aviation and medicine to better comprehend, understand and formalise an engineering approach that unifies the legal and engineering aspects of privacy together to make privacy relevant and implementable to the practising software engineer.He currently works for Nokia Networks and holds a Research Fellow position at the University of Brighton working with the Visual Modelling Group on diagrammatic forms of reasoning, description logics with the occasional foray into category theory. Prior to that as the privacy officer for Here and Nokia Services, and for eleven years at Nokia Research Centre working with Semantic Web, UML, formal methods and hardware-software co-design. He has also worked at Helsinki University of Technology and Aalto University teaching formal methods and modelling with UML. He holds 30 patents in areas such as The Internet of Things, semantic technologies and privacy.Ian lives in Sipoo, Finland with his wife, two children, dog and cat.