Maurice Frankel

Director
, Campaign for Freedom of Information, United Kingdom
Profile / Bio: 

Maurice Frankel has worked for the Campaign since it was set up in 1984 and has been its director since 1987. He previously worked on access to environmental and safety information issues for the corporate accountability group Social Audit. He drafted the successful Private Members’ Bills which became the Access to Personal Files Act 1987, the Access to Medical Reports Act 1988, the Environment and Safety Information Act 1988 and the Access to Health Records Act 1990. He was a member of the Lord Chancellor’s Advisory Group on Implementation of the Freedom of Information Act and the Commonwealth Group of Experts whose Freedom of Information Principles were adopted by Commonwealth Law Ministers in 1999. He received an OBE for services to open government in 2004.

Materials

Title Date Learning Materials Topic
Data Protection and Right to Information 05 December 2017 Slides Governance and Public Sector Management
Freedom of Information 05 December 2017 Slides Governance and Public Sector Management
Making the Demand Side of Freedom of Information Work 05 December 2017 Slides Governance and Public Sector Management, ICT, Knowledge Management