Peter Swire Chief Counselor for Privacy, Office of Management and Budget United States Government

In March 1999, Peter Swire entered into his position as the United States Government's Chief Counselor for Privacy, in the Office of Management and Budget.

Professor Swire is currently on leave from the Ohio State University College of Law and from editorship of the Cyberspace Law Abstracts. He is author of numerous articles on privacy and other topics as well as co-author of None of your Business: World data Flows, Electronic Commerce, and the European Privacy Directive, published by the Brookings Institution in 1998.

Professor Swire graduated summa cum laude from Princeton University and received his J.D. from the Yale Law School. Many of his writings appear at www.osu.edu/units/law/swire.htm