Dr Stefan Fafinski

Stefan has over twenty years experience in the information technology industry. Before establishing Invenio Research Limited, he was Senior Director of Professional Services for Europe, the Middle East and Africa at a global software corporation where he had also held senior management positions in software product design, development and programme management. He has subsequently researched, published and lectured extensively on e-crime, computer law and computer misuse and won the 2006 British Association for the Advancement of Science Joseph Lister Award for his work on cybercrime.

Stefan is a Visiting Fellow of the Oxford Internet Institute at the University of Oxford, where he is continuing his work into mapping and measuring cybercrime, the criminogenic potential of existing and emergent Internet technologies, their social impact and the policy implications for their regulation.

He is a Chartered Engineer, a Chartered Scientist and a Chartered Fellow of the British Computer Society. Stefan is a Court Liveryman of the Information Technologists’ Company, the City of London Livery Company for Information Technology, with Freedom of the City of London. He is also a Fellow of the Institute of Directors and the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures & Commerce. He is a member of the Society for Computers and Law, the British Society of Criminology, the Society of Legal Scholars, the Socio-Legal Studies Association, the Ecclesiastical Law Society and the Fraud Advisory Panel.

Stefan holds a Bachelor of Laws degree with first-class honours and a Masters degree in Natural Sciences from St John’s College, University of Cambridge. His doctorate from the University of Leeds concerned the legal and extra-legal governance of risks arising from the misuse of information technology.

Stefan is a Trustee of the Worshipful Company of Information Technologists Charitable Operations and a Trustee of the Hammersmith Academy Trust, building a new 11-18 Academy in the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham due to open in September 2011. More information on the Academy can be found here. He has previously been a governor of Lilian Baylis Technology School in Lambeth.

A selection of Stefan’s publications can be found here.