Peter Sommer is Senior Research Fellow and has been at the CSRC since 1994. His main research interest is the reliability of digital evidence, a subject which encompasses forensic computing and e-commerce. Together with James Backhouse he has developed the LSE’s social-science orientated courses on information security management. In the last Parliament he was Specialist Advisor to the Commons Trade & Industry Select Committee while it scrutinised UK policy and legislation on e-commerce.

Recent research contracts have been carried out for the UK Financial Services Authority and the European Commission’s Safer Internet Action Plan. He is an external examiner at the Royal Military College of Science, Shrivenham, and an advisor on a number of law enforcement and other committees concerned with cyber-crime and resilience. He is on the Advisory Council of the Foundation for Information Policy Research. He continues to act as an expert witness in a large number of important criminal and civil cases involving digital evidence and complex computer systems.

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