Professor Angela Daly PhD SFHEA is an international leader in the regulation and governance of data and digital technologies, and in the theory and practice of knowledge exchange.

She is Professor of Law & Technology in the Leverhulme Research Centre for Forensic Science (LRCFS) and Dundee Law School. In LRCFS she chairs the Ethics Committee, she is a member of the School of Science & Engineering's EDI committee, and in the Law School she is an Assistant Director of the Centre for Freedom of Information. In 2023-2024 she lead a University of Dundee team in an independent review of UKRI ESRC's research data policy, commissioned by the ESRC. In 2022-23 she was the chair of an Independent Expert Group for the Scottish Government on Unlocking the Value of Public Sector Data for Public Benefit.

She joined Dundee in 2021 from the University of Strathclyde where she was Reader and Co-Director of the Strathclyde Centre for Internet Law & Policy in Strathclyde Law School, and Associate Dean for Knowledge Exchange in the Strathclyde Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences.

Professor Daly is now a visiting researcher at the Strathclyde Centre for Internet Law & Policy, and holds further visiting/adjunct affiliations with the Fundação Getulio Vargas (Brazil), Tilburg University (Netherlands), University of Milan (Italy) and Magdalen College, University of Oxford (UK), where she was Robert S Campbell Visiting Fellow in Michaelmas Term 2022. She was previously Visiting Professor at the University of Macerata, Visiting Fellow at the University of Bologna (Italy) and Visiting Researcher at Stellenbosch University (South Africa).

Her most prominent publications are:

• Good Data (INC 2019), co-edited with S Kate Devitt & Monique Mann
• 3D Printing and IP Futures, co-authored with Thomas Birtchnell, Thierry Rayna and Ludmila Striukova for the UK Intellectual Property Office
• Socio-Legal Aspects of the 3D Printing Revolution (Palgrave 2016)
• Private Power, Online Information Flows and EU Law: Mind the Gap (Hart 2016)

Professor Daly is legal editor of the open access interdisciplinary Internet Policy Review journal, reviews for a number of journals and academic presses in law and other disciplines, and is a member of the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council's Peer Review College.

Prior to Strathclyde, Professor Daly's previous postdoctoral academic posts have been at institutions in the Asia Pacific region: the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Queensland University of Technology and Swinburne University of Technology. She has also previously worked in policy for Ofcom and pro bono for the Electronic Frontier Foundation. She was a prominent digital rights activist/advocate in Australia and a founding member of Digital Rights Watch Australia.

Professor Daly has extensive knowledge exchange experience. She has consulted to and advised international organisations, government agencies, not-for-profits and private sector actors on matters relevant to her research including data protection, human rights, antitrust/competition law and intellectual property.