SHARON POLSKY MAPP is President of AMINAcorp.ca, President of the Privacy & Access Council of Canada, and a Privacy by Design Ambassador with more than 30 years’ experience advising corporations and governments.
Sharon has appeared before several Senate, Parliamentary, and legislative committees, is often called on by media, and has been invited by conference organizers on five continents to share her insights about privacy and access matters, and about the unintended consequences of emerging laws, technologies and global trends.
Sharon has advised the National Cybersecurity Consortium and is a member of the NCC Scientific and Ecosystem Advisory Committee, and is a contributing writer to the Centre for International Governance Innovation. She is also a member of the National Privacy & Access Certification Committee and Accreditation Advisory Board, academic advisory boards, and of several Digital Governance Standards committees.
She co-authored the Statement of Ethical Principles and Professional Conduct for the privacy, access, and data protect profession, and the National Standard of Competency and certification criteria for the profession.
Sharon served as an Executive Member of the Canadian Bar Association Alberta Privacy and Access Law Section; was an adjunct instructor at the University of Calgary and SAIT Polytech for 15 years; served as an advisor for the University of Alberta’s Information Access and Protection of Privacy program; on the Board of the Rocky Mountain Civil Liberties Association; on the Advisory Board of the Canadian Institute for Information and Privacy Studies; and the Health Information Management Program Advisory Committee.
Sharon was a Women of Influence Award finalist 2010 and appointed as a Privacy by Design Ambassador in 2011. She was nominated to receive the Grace Pepin Award 2011, the Robert C. Clark Award 2017, and the PICCASO Award 2024.
