Christine Margaret O'Keefe is an Australian mathematician and computer scientist whose research has included work in finite geometry, information security, and data privacy.
[1] She is a researcher at CSIRO,[2] and was the lead author of a 2017 report from the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner on best practices for de-identification of personally identifying data.
[3] O'Keefe has a bachelor's degree from the University of Adelaide, initially intending to study medicine[4] but earning first-class honours in mathematics there in 1982.
She became Director of the Population Health Research Network Centre and Professor of Health Sciences at Curtin University from 2009 to 2010 before returning to CSIRO as Science Leader for Privacy and Confidentiality in the CSIRO Department of Mathematics, Informatics and Statistics.
In 1996, O'Keefe won the Hall Medal of the Institute of Combinatorics and its Applications for her work in finite geometry.