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Stephen Almond
Director of Technology and Innovation, Information Commissioner's Office, UK
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Rachael Annear
Counsel, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, UK
Rachael is an experienced counsel specialising in laws concerning data, including the GDPR, with a particular interest in the financial services, retail and tech sectors. Taking advantage of her IP/IT and Information law background Rachael regularly advises clients on data matters and is experienced in assisting international organisations on complex data strategy. Rachael advises on the full range of data matters particularly in the context of multi-national deals, compliance, data crises, investigations and litigation. She helps clients on all aspects of GDPR compliance including complex questions concerning data transfers, disclosure to regulators, export and extra-territorial effect and assists clients facing ICO enforcement action. Rachael has spent time as a legal advisor to the Cabinet Office and has experience in multinational deals, data crises, litigation and legislative drafting.
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Jennifer Archie
Partner, Latham & Watkins, USA
Jennifer is a partner in the Washington, D.C. office of Latham & Watkins. She has over a decade of investigations, litigation, and counselling experience advising clients across all market sectors in matters involving computer fraud and cybercrime, privacy/data security compliance and program management, advertising and marketing practices, information governance, consumer fraud, employment and trade secrets. She has particular expertise defending clients in FTC and state consumer protection investigations and preparing for and leading the response to complex and large-scale data breach incidents.
Jennifer regularly advises global enterprises on complex cross-border compliance and data transfer challenges, compliance with US privacy and data security requirements, and leads assessments of internal privacy or security management programs, under FTC, HIPAA, NIST, financial regulatory and governmental or private standards.
Jennifer was named, for the second year in a row in 2019, to Cybersecurity Docket’s “Incident Response 30” list and was also named a Cybersecurity & Data Privacy Trailblazer by The National Law Journal for her pioneering work on spam law, privacy and data security.
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Rafi Azim-Khan
Azim-Khan , Partner & Head of Data Privacy, Pillsbury Law, UK
Rafi Azim-Khan is Head of Data Privacy, Europe and Head of Marketing Law at Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP. Mr. Azim-Khan has been listed in Chambers Global and UK Directories for his e-commerce expertise and was named one of the UK’s “digital dozen” e-commerce and data protection specialists by Legal 500’s Insider Guides. He is recognized as an expert by Who’s Who Legal: Data 2019. He has also been ranked as a leader in Chambers Directory for his IP and Marketing Law work for the past 20 years, particularly for digital marketing, social media, the launch of new products internationally or entering new markets/countries and dealing with claims, competitors and regulators. On the data side, Rafi has advised clients, ranging from GE and GM through to Silicon Valley startups, on the full range of data protection, cyber-security and e-commerce issues, including the GDPR, CCPA, BCRs and data transfers, Big Data use, cyber breach response/notifications and the e-Privacy Regulations. He has co-authored 5 books including Regulation of the Internet, the IPA’s Ad Law, The Encyclopaedia of E-Commerce Law, and E-Business: The Practical Guide.
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Claudia Berg
General Counsel, Information Commissioner's Office, UK
Claudia is the General Counsel for the Information Commissioner’s Office. She heads up the ICO’s Legal Service and provides strategic legal advice to the Commissioner, the ICO’ s Executive team and Management board. Claudia joined the ICO in April 2021 from the Competition & Market’s Authority where she was responsible for the legal oversight of the CMA’s entire competition law enforcement portfolio, from the launch of an investigation through to decision and subsequent litigation before the Courts. Prior to the CMA, Claudia worked at Linklaters, London advising clients on all aspects of EU and UK competition law. Claudia is a dual-qualified Solicitor in England&Wales and Germany. She holds a Maîtrise en droit from the University of Paris 1 (Panthéon-Sorbonne) and a Master’s degree from King’s College London.
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Robert Blamires
Partner, Latham & Watkins, USA
Robert Blamires is a Partner in the San Francisco office of Latham & Watkins and a member of the Technology Transactions and Data Privacy & Security practices. Mr. Blamires is US-EU dual-qualified. His practice focuses on data privacy and consumer protection, related IT/IP contracts and other transactional matters, and associated cross-border and multijurisdictional issues. Mr. Blamires also regularly advises on proactive and reactive data security incident response. His represents leading companies in the technology, communications, and financial services sectors, including Facebook, Twitter, Foursquare, Netflix, Slack, VMware, Vodafone, and JP Morgan, as well as a number of high-growth and emerging companies.
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Stephen Bonner
Executive Director, Regulatory Futures and Innovation, Information Commissioner's Office, UK
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Emilie Brunet
Legal Advisor, International Service, CNIL, France
Emilie Brunet is a legal and policy officer in the European and International Affairs Department at the French data protection autority (CNIL) since February 2017. She has been involved in the work of the Working Party 29, and she has been contributing to the work of the EDPB different subgroups and taskforces. She holds an LLM degree in European Law from the Queen Mary University (UK) and a Master degree in European Union Law from Université Paris I – La Sorbonne (France). Between 2011 and 2016 she worked for the French Prime Minister services (SGAE) for the coordination of the positions of the French authorities in the negotiations of the GDPR and Law Enforcement Directive in the Council, as well as for the coordination of the positions to be defended by the French Government before the European Court of Justice in the field of Justice and Home Affaires, including for data protection cases.
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Iain Corby
Executive Director, The Age Verification Providers’ Association (AVPA) & Project Manager, euCONSENT, UK
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Peter Church
Counsel, Linklaters, UK
Peter’s practice encompasses a wide range of areas in which technology interfaces with the law including data privacy, ecommerce regulation and technology contracts. He has spent time on secondment at a number of global technology and communications companies. He is editor of Data Protected, a review of data protection laws across 52 jurisdictions around the world.
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Georgina Kon
TMT Partner, Linklaters, UK
Georgie regularly advises household names in a wide range of sectors on all aspects of information governance and privacy.
She is a key member of Linklaters’ Global Data Protection Working Group and has advised extensively on recent developments, including GDPR and Brexit.
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Fiona Maclean
Partner, Latham & Watkins, UK
Fiona Maclean advises a diverse range of clients across industries on data privacy compliance and IT and business processing transactions, with a particular focus on cloud computing and data strategy.
Ms. Maclean brings a unique cross-section of knowledge and experience spanning data, technology, and commercial contracts to help clients navigate complex, multi-jurisdictional transactions within the broader framework of data privacy laws. She advises a broad base of clients ranging from start-ups to technology giants and leading financial institutions. Her work at the nexus of the commercial and data worlds includes advising on operational resiliency risks and regulatory requirements including some of the most transformational cloud deals in the global market.
Ms. Maclean writes extensively on technology and privacy law for prominent industry organizations, including the World Economic Forum, the Association for Financial Markets in Europe (AFME), and the Association of Foreign Banks.
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William Malcolm
Director, Senior Director, International Privacy and Consumer Protection, Google, UK
William leads Google's international privacy legal and consumer protection function, managing a team across London, Hamburg, Paris, Dublin and Singapore. During his time at Google William has worked on multiple CJEU data protection cases and regulatory matters and has represented Google with global policy makers.
William has helped Google product and compliance teams formulate internal policies and compliance plans on a wide range of issues including GDPR, right to be forgotten, AI/ML, cloud privacy and international data transfers and is a frequent speaker/ panelist at conferences and industry events on data protection and privacy issues.
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Michael McEvoy
Information and Privacy Commissioner for British Columbia, Canada
Michael McEvoy was appointed to a six-year term as Information and Privacy Commissioner for BC by unanimous motion of the Legislative Assembly in 2018. Immediately prior to his appointment he helped lead the Information Commissioner’s Office of the United Kingdom’s investigation into Cambridge Analytica and Facebook. Commissioner McEvoy joined the OIPC in 2007, adjudicating more than 50 inquiries under provincial access and privacy law before his appointment as Deputy Commissioner in 2013.
He was a public school trustee for 12 years, a role that included two terms as President of the British Columbia School Trustees' Association and one as President of the Canadian School Boards' Association. He has chaired Greater Victoria’s United Way campaign and presently serves on the board of the Victoria Conservatory of Music. He obtained a Juris Doctorate from the University of Manitoba in 1985 and a Bachelor of Arts in 1980 from the University of Winnipeg. Commissioner McEvoy has been a member of the Law Society of British Columbia since 1986.
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Christopher Millard
Professor of Privacy and Information Law, Centre for Commercial Law Studies Queen Mary University of London, UK
Christopher Millard is Professor of Privacy and Information Law and head of the Cloud Legal Project in the Centre for Commercial Law Studies, Queen Mary University of London. He is also co-director of the Microsoft Cloud Computing Research Centre and is Senior Counsel to the law firm Bristows. He has over 35 years of experience in the technology law field, in both academia and legal practice. He is Editor and Co-Author of Cloud Computing Law (Oxford University Press) and is a founding editor of the International Journal of Law and IT and of International Data Privacy Law. Christopher is a Fellow and former Chairman of the Society for Computers & Law, a past-President of the International Federation of Computer Law Associations, and a past-Chair of the Technology Law Committee of the International Bar Association. A selection of his papers is available for free download from SSRN.
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Giles Pratt
Partner, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, UK
Giles heads the IP and technology group at Freshfields and leads its London data practice. He advises on the full range of legal issues relating to data and cyber security, including navigating data issues in M&A, data governance, crisis management and IP rights in data. Giles is a regular adviser on international data privacy breaches and investigations, and frequently speaks on data issues, including at Privacy Law & Business’ annual conferences and at various tech conferences. He is a member of the City of London Law Society Data Law Committee and edits the Global Data Review Handbook.
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Jessica Romero
Director and Associate General Counsel, Platform Enforcement & Litigation, Meta, USA
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Borja Sainz de Aja
Partner and Head of Litigation of the Digital Group, Uría Menéndez, Spain
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Anne Schilmoller
Policy Officer, International Data Flows and Protection, Directorate-General for Justice & Consumers, European Commission
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Rob Sumroy
Partner, and Global Co-Head of Data Privacy, Slaughter and May, UK
Rob is head of the firm’s Technology and Strategic Sourcing practices and co-heads our global data protection and privacy practice, Fintech and Cyber Advisory units. He advises on all things ‘data’, including data protection, privacy, cyber security and direct marketing. He regularly helps clients understand and mitigate risk, whether linked to a changing regulatory compliance framework or otherwise. Rob frequently writes and speaks at industry forums, has been published in PLC, Cyber Security Practitioner and Digital Business Lawyer.
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Linda Thielová
Head of Privacy, OneTrust, UK
Linda Thielová serves as Head of Privacy, Chief Privacy Officer and Data Protection Officer at OneTrust – the #1 most widely used privacy, security, and trust technology platform. In her role, Linda provides guidance on GDPR, ePrivacy, and global privacy-related obligations to support customers and product innovation and is responsible for overseeing OneTrust's data protection strategy and implementation to ensure compliance with GDPR requirements. She also conducts training and workshops on the global privacy landscape and regularly contributes to various publications and conferences. Linda is a Certified Information Privacy Professional (CIPP/E, CIPM, CIPP/US) and earned a Master’s in Law and Legal Science from Masaryk University Brno, Czech Republic.
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Wojciech Wiewiórowski
Assistant European Data Protection Supervisor, European Data Protection Supervisor, Brussels
Wojciech Wiewiórowski was born on June 13th 1971. In 1995 he graduated from the Faculty of Law and Administration of the University of Gdańsk, and in 2000 he was awarded the academic degree of Doctor in constitutional law. After graduation he was editor and then publisher in legal publishing houses. In 2002 he began to work as lecturer at Gdańsk College of Administration, and since 2003 he was assistant professor and head of Legal IT Department at the Faculty of Law and Administration of the University of Gdańsk, with which he has been associated since 1995. Since 2006 he has been working for public administration. He was among others adviser in the field of e-government and information society for the Minister of Interior and Administration, as well as Vice-president of the Regulatory Commission of the Polish Autocephalous Orthodox Church. In 2008 he took over the post of the Director of the Informatisation Department at the Ministry of Interior and Administration. He also represented Poland in committee on Interoperability Solutions for European Public Administrations (the ISA Committee) assisting the European Commission. He was also the member of the Archives Council to the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage. He is a member of the Polish Association for European Law. In 2010 he was elected by Polish Parliament for the post of the Inspector General for the Protection of Personal Data (Polish Data Protection Commissioner) which he served by November 2014 being re-elected for the second term in 2014. Vice Chairman of the Working Party Art. 29 since February till November 2014. The author of numerous studies, publications and lectures in the field of personal data protection, IT law, e-government and legal informatics. His areas of scientific activity include first of all Polish and European IT law, processing and security of information, legal information retrieval systems, informatisation of public administration, electronic signature and application of semantic web and legal ontologies in legal information processing.
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Dino Wilkinson
Partner, Clyde & Co, UAE
Dino Wilkinson is a partner with Clyde & Co and recognised as one of the leading technology, media and telecommunications (TMT) lawyers in the Middle East. He has more than ten years' experience of advising clients throughout the region on a range of transactional and advisory TMT matters, including data protection and privacy, cyber and data risks, IT contracting, emerging technology regulation and related issues.
Dino has supported local and international organisations doing business in the Middle East and worked with regional governments and regulators on a number of significant legislative developments in this area, including the drafting of electronic commerce laws, data sharing policies and privacy legislation.
Dino was recently named in the Hall of Fame by The Legal 500 for UAE technology lawyers and he is ranked as a Band 1 leading individual by Chambers Global 2020 with one source praising him as "the leading expert on privacy and data protection in Dubai."