Ruth Boardman

Bird & Bird
Ruth Boardman jointly heads Bird & Bird's International Privacy and Data Protection Group. She advises on data privacy, freedom of information, database rights and other information law issues.Ruth also advises on information technology law, e-commerce and on public procurement law..../ read more She is rated by Chambers & Partners as a leading individual on data protection / close

Eduardo Ustaran

Field Fisher Waterhouse
Eduardo is a partner in the Privacy and Information Law Group of Field Fisher Waterhouse and a dually qualified English Solicitor and Spanish Abogado. He is a co-founder of Data Protection Law & Policy.Eduardo advises on the impact of EU.../ read more and overseas data protection law on the operational activities of all types of organisations, including leading FTSE-100 companies and public sector bodies. He manages a team of lawyers across many jurisdictions and has assisted data protection regulators from different countries to align their positions and interpretation of the law. He has managed the adoption of global privacy strategies for a number of international clients and has drafted and negotiated data protection Binding Corporate Rules. He is Co-chairman of KnowledgeNet London and co-author of several books. / close

Amanda Chandler

Group Legal
Following three and a half years working for the Data Protection Commissioner as a Compliance Manager in the police and judicial sector, Amanda joined DoubleClick, an online ad serving technology company, as its European Privacy Manager. For two and a.../ read more half years she worked with clients and external stakeholders on understanding the European data protection obligations associated with online ad serving and email marketing. In June 2003, she left DoubleClick to join Vodafone Limited as Data Protection Manager. In that role, she was responsible for the implementation of data protection policy and strategy, and played a key role at an operational level in building data protection compliance into business processes across the company, ranging from new products and services to customer services. She has recently moved to Group Legal to take up a new role as Global Privacy Manager, where she will be working to develop and build out a personal information management system that takes enterprise-wide data protection compliance to the next level. / close

Lucy Inger

law:matix
Lucy is a Partner with law:matix, a specialist IT and privacy law firm. Prior to setting up law:matix, Lucy was Senior Associate at Masons (now Pinsent Masons) before moving in-house to AstraZeneca in August 2000 as its dedicated IS/IT lawyer.As.../ read more part of her role, Lucy advised AstraZeneca on all aspects of its global and local compliance with data protection and other privacy laws. Lucy is one of the Editors of Sweet & Maxwell's Encyclopaedia of Data Protection and is also principal contributor to the data protection volume of Butterworth's Encyclopaedia of Forms and Precedents. She also acts as an examiner on the Information Systems Examinations Board (which is part of the British Computer Society) which runs the only public examination in data protection. / close

James Leaton Gray

BBC
James heads the BBC's Information Policy and Compliance Department, in the Legal section of the BBC's Operations Group. He oversees the operation of the Corporation's systems for compliance with the Data Protection and Freedom of Information Acts, amongst others.His team.../ read more are involved in many high profile cases in this rapidly evolving area of the law. James himself has a particular interest in Children's Data Protection and the impact of new technology on privacy. James has been working in broadcasting, mainly for the BBC, for over 25 years. He has worked in a wide variety of management roles including overseeing projects to ensure the BBC's impartiality during elections and the introduction of staff multi-skilling in areas of BBC News. Before joining the Strategy Division he was a programme maker and spent much of his time in political journalism. He edited many of the BBC's Political and Parliamentary programmes including Today/Yesterday in Parliament, The Week in Westminster, Westminster Live, and the documentary series Scrutiny. He was one of the first staff members to be invited to take part in the BBC's MBA programme. He is the Chairman of the Strategic Planning Society, and is also a member of the Royal Television Society and the Radio Academy. / close

Christopher Millard

Queen Mary, University of London
Christopher Millard is Professor of Privacy and Information Law at the Centre for Commercial Law Studies, Queen Mary, University of London and is a Senior Research Fellow of the Oxford Internet Institute at the University of Oxford.He is also Of.../ read more Counsel to Bristows where he is a consultant to the information technology, privacy and data protection teams. He has 25 years experience in the technology and communications law fields and has led many multi-jurisdictional information governance and data protection compliance projects. He is the author of many articles and book chapters on privacy, technology and communications law, is a General Editor of the International Journal of Law and Information Technology (Oxford University Press) and is a founding editor of Data Protection Laws of the World. He was a member of the OECD's Steering Group on Contractual Solutions for Transborder Data Flows (2000-01) and since 2002 he has been a member of the International Chamber of Commerce's Task Force on Privacy and Protection of Personal Data. Before he joined Bristows in 2008, Christopher was a partner at Linklaters for six years and head of that firm's global privacy practice. Prior to that he was at Clifford Chance for 18 years, including ten years as a Partner. In 2008, the International Who's Who of Business Lawyers designated him Internet & eCommerce Lawyer of the Year. / close

James Mullock

Osborne Clarke
James is a Partner in Osborne Clarke's Business Transactions department. Between 1999 and 2002 he co-wrote 3 editions of 'The Data Protection Act Explained', published by the Stationery Office.He advises household name clients on their EMEA data protection strategies.../ read more and regularly speaks on international privacy issues at conferences around the globe. He has also been involved in a series of cases before the Information Tribunal and the ECJ which concern important freedom of information legal issues. James trained with Osborne Clarke and became a partner in 2001. As well as leading Osborne Clarke's Privacy and Information Law group he also jointly set up and helps run the firm's India desk. Chambers lists him as a leading UK data protection lawyer. / close

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Christopher Rees

Taylor Wessing LLP
Christopher Rees has had an involvement with data protection law and policy since the data protection bill was being debated in 1984. He was involved in the drafting of the 1998 Data Protection Act and in the same year had.../ read more an involvement in the Source Informatics case.In 2001 he began work on the ground breaking global data privacy compliance audit on behalf of IMS Health which featured a formal legal opinion to the board of directors. He also carried out smaller scale reviews for Colgate and Toshiba amongst others and gained for Atmel Corp the first BCR accreditation under the new ICO rules issued in 2008. Christopher has written and lectured extensively in the field, including as an invited guest at two of the International Data Privacy Commissioner's conferences. He was also an active contributor to the Information Commissioner's report on Data Sharing. He is the co-editor of "Rees & Chalton on Databases". He is currently engaged on a project to produce an international Convention on the law of Geoinformation through his chairmanship of the IBA Computer and Database Committee. / close