Dr. Christian Bonnici West is a Resident Academic within the Insurance and Risk Management Department, Faculty of Economics, Management, and Accountancy, University of Malta. He has interdisciplinary research interests revolving around the notions of consent, privacy, surveillance, risk management, emerging technologies, strategy, and management systems. Dr. Bonnici West has designed and delivered educational and training materials covering fundamental information security and compliance concepts and principles at the Master’s and Bachelor’s levels, as well as for the industry.


Over the past years, Dr. Bonnici West has also accumulated professional experience in various specialised aspects of Information Security and Privacy Management, including within a leading Gaming organisation, on national Public Key Infrastructure projects, as an external contractor responsible for IT Compliance within the pharmaceutical industry, as a consultant and auditor within a Big 4 firm, and as a representative of the Office of the Prime Minister on the Maltese National Cyber Security Steering Committee. Recently, he was also appointed a member of the Council for the Malta Association of Risk Management.


Dr. Bonnici West received his Ph.D. and MSc degrees in Information Security from the Information Security Group, Royal Holloway, University of London, and a BSc (Hons.) degree in Computing and Information Systems from Goldsmiths College, University of London.