In November 2005, David Loukidelis was, on the  unanimous recommendation of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia, appointed to a second six-year term as Information and Privacy Commissioner for British Columbia.

Before becoming Commissioner, David acquired considerable expertise in access to information and privacy protection issues.  He acted for businesses, individuals, Crown corporations, local governments, school boards, unions, labour groups and others in access and privacy matters and in proceedings before the Information and Privacy Commissioner and the courts.

Since becoming Commissioner in 1999, David has written numerous access-to-information and privacy decisions in the public and private sectors.  He has also worked in other ways to ensure that the privacy and access to information rights of British Columbians are fully realized.  For example, in relation to privacy, he has been a member of the Privacy Advisory Committee of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research and is a member of the Ethics, Law and Social Issues Committee for the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Ageing, funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research.  He has also recently participated in negotiations and support work for the APEC Privacy Framework of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation organization.

David is an Adjunct Professor at the University of Victoria’s Faculty of Law, where he teaches access and privacy law.  He has been an Adjunct Professor in the Faculty of Law of the University of British Columbia and with the School of Community and Regional Planning of the University of British Columbia.

David received his law degree in 1984 and qualified as a lawyer in British Columbia in 1985.   He then spent a year as a clerk to a Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada before moving on to the University of Oxford, from which he received his Bachelor of Civil Law in 1987. In 1980, David received a Master of Arts degree in English Language and Literature (Medieval Studies) from the University of Edinburgh.