Ben Hayes is a UK-based researcher and consultant working on human rights, data protection and applied ethics in counterterrorism, international security, border control, policing, humanitarian action and frameworks for research and development. He has conducted data protection impact assessments and devised data protection frameworks for the International Committee of the Red Cross, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), the European Commission and other public and private sector organizations. He is a Fellow of the Transnational Institute, an Associate of the Peace Research Institute Oslo and the Human Security Collective, and a Director of Data Protection Support & Management Ltd.