Miriam Nisbet currently serves as the Director of the Information Society Division at the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), where she works on issues of global access to information and digital libraries. She is also the Secretary of the Intergovernmental Council for the Information for All Programme (IFAP).
Mrs Nisbet was Legislative Counsel at the American Library Association from August 1999 to July 2007, where she dealt primarily with copyright and other intellectual property issues raised by the digital information environment. She worked at the National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, from 1993 to 1999 where she first occupied the post of Special Assistant to the Archivist of the US and then Special Counsel for Information Policy. She was Staff Attorney at the National Association of Attorneys General in 1977/1978, before joining the US Department of Justice from 1978 to 1994 where her past position was Deputy Director of the Office of Information and Privacy.
In addition, Mrs Nisbet was a member of the US Delegation to the Hague Conference on Private International Law, representing libraries. She is a member of the American Bar Association and of the American Law Institute. She also is a long-time member of the American Society of Access Professionals and served as its President and a member of its Board of Directors. Representing libraries, she was President of the Americans For Fair Electronic Access Transactions.
Born in 1948, Mrs Nisbet is a Juris Doctor - Law (University of North Carolina, 1977) and holds a B.A. in History (University of North Carolina, 1971).
