Murray Rankin, Q.C. is a partner in the firm of Heenan Blaikie, LLP and works out of its Victoria office. He was a Professor of Law at the University of Victoria for over a decade, and was educated at Queen's University, University of Toronto and Harvard Law School. He completed his Masters of Law thesis at Harvard Law School in the field of freedom of information and national security. He remains an Adjunct Professor of Law at the University of Victoria, where he co-teaches a course on Information and Privacy Law with British Columbia’s Information and Privacy Commissioner, David Loukidelis.

In 1983, he worked at the Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development in Paris in the Directorate of Science Technology and Industry on Transborder Information Flows and subsequently wrote about this in several publications. In 1987, he served with Dr. David Flaherty as consultant to the House of Commons Standing Committee on Justice and Solicitor General that conducted the review of the Access to Information and Privacy Acts, co-authoring a report entitled Open and Shut: Enhancing the Right to Know and the Right to Privacy. In 1992 he was appointed Special Advisor to the Attorney General of British Columbia, responsible for the policy formation and drafting of British Columbia's new Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act.