Rajen Akalu
PhD

Background

Rajen Akalu is an associate professor in the Faculty of Business and IT at Ontario Technology University in Oshawa.  He is also the founder of the Akalu Law Professional Corporation www.akalulaw.com. His law firm provides legal services to individual and corporate clients on issues relating to information governance, privacy compliance, security policy, and starting a business. His research interests law firm practice areas relate to privacy law and artificial intelligence. 

In 2014 he completed his Ph.D. at Delft Technical University (TU Delft), The Netherlands on the regulation of wireless technology. Rajen holds a Master of Laws degree from the London School of Economics and a Bachelor of Laws degree from the University of East London.  

Rajen was called to the Bar in New York State in 2002 and Ontario in 2019.  He is a member of the Ontario Bar Association and an Executive member of Privacy and Access section.

Rajen previously worked at the Center for Information Communication Technologies, Denmark Technical University and the Centre for Innovation Law and Policy, University of Toronto Faculty of Law. He has also worked in law firms in New York and Toronto as well as the Information and Privacy Commissioner (Ontario) and the Commission for Communications Regulation (ComReg), Ireland. 

Rajen has performed stand-up comedy in Amsterdam, enjoys boxing and is an Iron Man (70.3) Triathlete.

He lives in Ajax with his wife and four children.