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Eduardo Ustaran
Hogan Lovells
Eduardo is a partner in the global Privacy and Information Management practice of Hogan Lovells and an internationally recognised expert in privacy and data protection law. He is a dually qualified English Solicitor and Spanish Abogado based in London.
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is also the author of The Future of Privacy (DataGuidance, 2013), a ground breaking book where he anticipates the key elements that organisations and privacy professionals will need to tackle to comply with the regulatory framework of the future.
Eduardo advises some of the world's leading companies on the adoption of global privacy strategies and is closely involved in the development of the new EU data protection framework. He has been named by Revolution magazine as one of the 40 most influential people in the growth of the digital sector in the UK and is ranked as a leading privacy and internet lawyer by prestigious international directories.
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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
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procurement law. She is rated by Chambers & Partners as a leading individual on data protection
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Anna Pouliou
GE
Anna Pouliou is an Executive Counsel and the Corporate Privacy & Data Protection Leader for Europe at GE. She is based in Brussels serving all European GE businesses on a wide variety of privacy law matters. She manages the GE
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privacy and data security legal program and the related public policy program in Europe.
Prior to joining GE, Anna was VP & senior counsel at First Data Corporation, based in Frankfurt and formerly with Euroclear Bank SA/NV (former Morgan Guaranty Trust Company of New York), the Bank of New York Mellon and the National Bank of Greece. Her expertise is focused on privacy, data protection, information security, antitrust, regulatory compliance, financial services, e-payments and EU government affairs.
Anna obtained her law degree at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in Greece and has an LL.M degree from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in Belgium. She has furthermore completed the ACC mini MBA at Boston University in the United States, International and European Law courses at the Rijksuniversiteit Gent in Belgium and a Multicultural and Gender Studies program at the University of Utrecht in the Netherlands. She is a member of the Thessaloniki Bar in Greece since 1999 and a former member of the ACC and the Belgian IJE.
She served as alternate director on the board of the Transatlantic Business Council (TABC) in 2013. Anna is a regular speaker on privacy and regulatory compliance issues. She is fluent in Greek, English, French, Italian, Spanish, Dutch and currently learning German.
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Alec Christie
EY
Alec Christie is a Partner and the APAC Leader of Digital Law & Privacy at EY based in Sydney, Australia. Alec provides solutions in relation to privacy, data/cyber security, digital transformation, information and IT security regulatory matters, electronic marketing/spam, e-commerce,
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sourcing, the as a service economy/cloud computing, Big Data analytics, the Internet of Things and social business/marketing, in particular in the financial services, health/life sciences, government and education sectors. Alec has been recognised as a “Leading Lawyer” in the IT and IP practice areas every year since 1998, in Chambers Global publication The World’s Leading Lawyers as “superb [...] a genuine regional expert” and in Asia Pacific Legal 500 as “probably one of the best lawyers in his field.” Since 2013, Alec has also been selected as one of the Leading Information Technology lawyers in Australia by Who’s Who Legal and described as a “distinguished practitioner lauded by clients for his excellent advisory work in privacy.” Alec has also been recognised by Best Lawyers Australia as one of the best lawyers in Australia for outsourcing law.
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Chris Connolly
Galexia
Chris Connolly is a lawyer, researcher and consultant on privacy. He is a consultant to the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development where he has been the lead author of several reports on privacy and cyberlaws. Chris is also
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a director of Galexia where he provides specialist consulting services for privacy and cyberlaw projects. He has advised Governments on the development of privacy, cybercrime and electronic commerce laws in many counties, including Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines and Singapore. Chris has previously held senior roles at the University of New South Wales in Australia where he lectured in the Masters of Law course for over a decade. He was also the founding editor of the Internet Law Bulletin. Chris currently splits his time between Australia and Europe. He is based in the UK.
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Paul Bernal
University of East Anglia
Paul is a Lecturer in Information Technology, Intellectual Property and Media Law at the University of East Anglia, and specialises in internet privacy - his book Internet Privacy Rights: Rights to Protect Autonomy was published by Cambridge University Press in
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2014. His PhD was from the LSE, and his background is unusual for a legal academic, starting with an undergraduate degree in mathematics from Cambridge University, qualifying as a Chartered Accountant and then working in both the private sector and for NGOs. His current areas of research interest include surveillance by both government agencies and corporations, data protection – and in particular data protection reform and the right to be forgotten – as well as human rights and the use of social media. He is a prolific blogger (at https://paulbernal.wordpress.com) and tweeter (as @paulbernalUK). He is a member of the National Police Chiefs’ Council’s Independent Digital Ethics Panel for Policing, contributes regularly to government consultations, and is on the Advisory Council of the Open Rights Group.
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Lien Ceulemans
Salesforce
Lien is Corporate and Privacy Legal Counsel at Salesforce.com, the largest cloud computing company. Lien supports sales in the entire EMEA (from UK, France, Germany, Benelux, Southern Europe to emerging markets), dealing with legal issues regarding cloud computing, privacy and
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data protection law (Safe Harbor and international data transfers, confidentiality, data requests, regulator engagement), IT contracts law, alliances and general compliance matters. Lien is involved in customer negotiations and contract drafting in several languages and legal process optimisation.
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Evie Kyriakides
Mars, Inc.
Evie is the Chief Privacy Officer and Associate General Counsel, Global Digital, Privacy and Security for Mars, Incorporated. In this position, she has responsibility for the creation, deployment and management of legal strategies and policies in the areas of data privacy,
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data protection, data breaches and digital media across the business globally. She leads and develops an effective results-focused team ensuring high engagement with stakeholders.
Evie is a lawyer with over 20 years legal experience. She is also a Chartered Company Secretary, a qualified marketer from the Cyprus Institute of Marketing (affiliated to the UK’s Chartered Institute of Marketing) and a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. Evie is an active member of the International Association of Privacy Professionals, World Federation of Advertisers Digital Committee, AIM’s Digital committee and sits on the Editorial Board of the International In-House Counsel. She has been repeatedly endorsed as a leading in-house lawyer by the outside legal press, and was most recently named as the Technology, Media and Telecoms Lawyer of the Year in 2013 by Chambers and Partners.
Evie previously held legal positions at Glaxo Welcome plc and Thorn EMI plc.
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James Leaton Gray
The Privacy Practice
James provides bespoke consultancy services in Data Protection and Privacy for a variety of companies and sectors. He also writes the Privacy Practice Blog which shines light onto current issues in Privacy and Data Protection. James provides strategic policy guidance
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and designs integrated privacy programmes, for example for the BBC’s personalisation and big data capability. For over 10 years he headed the BBC’s Information Policy and Compliance Department overseeing the corporation’s systems for compliance with the Data Protection and Freedom of Information Acts. Before that he worked on a variety of policy and management roles following a career in current affairs and political programmes production.
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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
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also Of 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.
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James Mullock
Bird & Bird
James is a Partner in Bird & Bird’s international data protection and India strategy groups, based in its London office. Between 1999 and 2002 he co- wrote 3 editions of ’The Data Protection Act Explained’, published by the Stationery Office.
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He advises on information law issues, including in the fields of data privacy, cyber risk and freedom of information and also handles complex technology, communications and outsourcing transactions for both customers and suppliers. Examples of his recent work include advising: a leading e-commerce site on the consequences of a cyber attack; a UK energy company on data issues arising from its smart meter role out; an applicant for Binding Corporate Rules; the UK water industry to the European Court of Justice on a data law issue; and a leading motor insurance company on supplier contract negotiations and data issues connected to its role out of a telematics system.
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