Dr. Omer Tene
Associate Professor
College of Management School of Law, Rishon Le Zion, Israel

Israel's Biometric Identity System: Risks and opportunities

Dr. Omer Tene is a legal consultant admitted to practice in Israel and New York and an Associate Professor at the College of Management School of Law, Rishon Le Zion, Israel. He was appointed by the Minister of Justice as Member of the National Privacy Protection Council. He consults the Israeli government, data protection authority and private sector businesses on privacy, data protection and law and technology issues. He is a graduate of the JSD and LL.M. programs at NYU School of Law and received an MBA degree from INSEAD as well as LL.M. and LL.B. degrees from Tel Aviv University. Omer Tene was an associate at the New York office of Debevoise & Plimpton and at the Paris office of Fried Frank and a Senior Research Fellow at the British Institute of International and Comparative Law in London, where he directed the Data Protection Group.