Dr Christian Bonnici West is a Resident Academic within the Insurance and Risk Management Department, University of Malta. Before joining the department he obtained a BSc (Hons) in Computing and Information Systems from the University of London, and an MSc and a PhD in Information Security from the Information Security Group, Royal Holloway University of London.
Over the past twenty years Christian held various professional roles within the public and private sectors, and provided information security and business consultancy to various highly regulated entities, including within the pharmaceutical, gaming, education, banking, finance, and security industries.
As a Computer Information Systems researcher with interdisciplinary interests, Christian's research revolves around the concepts of consent, privacy and surveillance, and around the various aspects of information security management, including risk management and business continuity. Christian is also interested in the development and optimisation of formal ontologies.