Curriculum Vitae Ms. Elizabeth Longworth
Elizabeth Longworth, Principal of Longworth Associates, is a specialist adviser on dispute resolution, information issues and digital technologies. Her expertise includes designing systems for conflict resolution, mediation and other alternative dispute resolution. She is also a specialist on the legal and ethical implications of information technology, the internet, electronic commerce, electronic banking, international trade finance and telecommunications.
Following her admission to the Bar as a barrister and solicitor, and developing a practice in litigation, Ms. Longworth spent three years in Canada working in information law. Before setting up her own firm in 1991, she practiced in a large corporate law firm in both Wellington and Auckland (New Zealand) in her specialty fields.
Ms. Longworth is the Independent Chair of the New Zealand telecommunication industry's self-regulatory body on number administration. She was the New Zealand nominee to the UNESCO Meetings in Seoul and Monte Carlo in 1998, and is a member of the Sub-Commission on Communication of the New Zealand National Commission of UNESCO. She continues to work for UNESCO (Paris) on the "Digital Divide".
Ms. Longworth has been working with the Australasian and USA (CDR and Harvard) dispute resolution programs since 1994. She is accredited to the Advanced Panel of LEADR mediators, is an adviser to the New Zealand Law Commission on its computer misuse and electronic commerce projects and Chaired the electronic commerce session at the 1999 APEC Women Leaders Meeting. She has also worked with: the OECD; APEC (NZ) working groups on electronic commerce; the New Zealand Law Society as a facilitator and presenter on Law and the Internet, and on Privacy; the International Standards Organization, as a Consumer Policy representative; Standards New Zealand, as a member of Computer Security Committee; and the European Union Telecommunications Data Protection Working Group
Ms. Longworth is the author of a report on Cyberspace Law, published in New Zealand in 1998 and currently in press by UNESCO (Paris), and of the leading text on New Zealand's privacy laws.
Ms. Longworth graduated with a Bachelor of Laws from Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand and a Master of Laws from Osgoode Hall, York University, Canada.