24th Annual Data Protection Compliance Conference
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Biographies of Speakers & Workshop Leaders

 

Below are the data protection experts and leaders which presented on Speakers Presentations Day of the 24th Annual Data Protection Compliance Conference 2025.

 

 

Andrew Gaillie

Andrew Gallie

Partner
VWV


Andrew Gallie is a Partner at VWV. Andrew leads the data protection team at VWV.  He advises on all aspects of data protection and information law including cyber security, privacy, workforce monitoring, international data transfers and subject access requests as well as requests made under freedom of information and environmental information legislation.
 
He has advised on a number of high-profile data protection enforcement matters.  Clients include a variety of public and private sector organisations, such as local authorities, charities, universities and businesses in the technology and healthcare sectors.


Duc Tran

Duc Tran
Senior Data &
Privacy Lawyer

Herbert Smith
Freehills Kramer

Duc Tran is a senior data and privacy lawyer at Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer with 15 years' experience advising clients on complex issues in this highly regulated area. Duc's experience includes advising clients on all aspects of data-related compliance, policy design and implementation, data strategy, data breach response, data retention, data analytics/profiling and the use of AI. As well as providing advice to clients, Duc is heavily involved in the firm's thought leadership, including analysis of legal and industry developments. Duc has been quoted in journals and publications (including the Financial Times) regarding data issues, spoken at numerous external events and is a regular contributor of articles to PDP Journals, including Privacy & Data Protection, and Compliance & Risk.


Eleonor Duhs

Eleonor Duhs
Head of Data Privacy
(Partner)
Bates Wells


Eleonor Duhs is a barrister and a Partner at Bates Wells LLP in the City of London. Before working in private practice she was a UK government lawyer.

She was the government’s lead lawyer in negotiations on the GDPR.  She is an expert on the UK’s post-Brexit legal landscape, having worked in the Department for Exiting the European Union on the domestic legislation to implement Brexit, as well as the EU-UK Withdrawal Agreement and the framework for the future EU-UK relationship.

 


Emily Keaney

Emily Keaney
Deputy Commissioner
(Regulatory Policy)
ICO


Emily Keaney, Deputy Commissioner Regulatory Policy, is responsible for overseeing the ICO’s policy work programme, both domestically and internationally, as well as leadership of legislative reform and the policy profession. Emily also provides ET support and oversight for the work of the ICO’s economic analysis directorate and research function, as well as overseeing the ICO's children's privacy strategy. 
 
Emily has had a long career in policy, strategy and research in a wide variety of regulatory and public policy contexts, including previous roles at the UK Regulators’ Network, Ofcom and the Institute for Public Policy Research. She has a strong interest in policy, current affairs and history and when not at work can generally be found reading history books and listening to history and current affairs podcasts.

Georgina Kon

Georgina Kon
Partner
Linklaters

Georgina Kon is a partner at Linklaters who specialises in all aspects of privacy, digital regulation and cyber security. She has helped many household names put in place innovative AI, privacy and online safety compliance structures, supporting them to harness the power of their data and technology safely and lawfully. Georgie also regularly advises on regulatory issues in connection with the use of innovative technology (including genAI), social listening, the Internet of Things, big data, digital health and more by global groups. Georgie co-leads Linklaters’ cybersecurity and online safety practices, and its multi-disciplinary privacy and cyber investigations teams.

Georgina is recognised as a leading individual in the Legal 500 for Data protection, privacy and cybersecurity. She is a co-Chair of the IT Law Summer School in Cambridge and a guest lecturer for the Chevening Cyber Scholars Programme. Clients describe Georgie as “pragmatic and friendly with foresight and an eye on new innovations, both technological and legal”, “technically savvy” and “professional, highly skilled and responsive” (Chambers, Data Protection and Information Law 2023).


Jamie Drucker

Jamie Drucker
Partner
Bristows
Jamie Drucker is a Partner at Bristows. He advises clients on a wide range of privacy and data protection issues, including on the adoption of privacy strategies, assessing privacy risks in the context of new lines of business and the adoption of new technologies, notification and consent issues, individual rights requests, anonymisation, and data processing and transfer agreements.

​He has particular expertise advising clients on ad-tech compliance issues, in terms of navigating ePrivacy and GDPR requirements in the context of data collection, online tracking and profiling. Jamie also has experience in drafting Binding Corporate Rules (BCRs), both for processors and controllers, and in helping clients to navigate the complex BCR application and review process.

​Jamie also helps clients respond to data breach incidents, and defend regulatory enforcement action across Europe. He has also worked on high profile data protection litigation in the English High Court.

Leonie Power - Senior Associate - Field Fisher Waterhouse

Leonie Power
Senior Associate
Field Fisher Waterhouse

Leonie Power is a Senior Associate in the Privacy and Information Law Group at Field Fisher Waterhouse in London. Leonie provides strategic and practical advice on the full range of data protection and e-compliance issues affecting public and private sector organisations and has particular expertise in the area of international data warehousing arrangements, data security compliance, e-marketing and employee monitoring. Leonie has spoken on data protection and privacy issues in the UK and abroad and provided specialist training in this field.


Tim Hickman

Tim Hickman
Partner
White & Case


Tim Hickman is a partner, based in White & Case’s London office. He leads the Firm’s global Data, Privacy & Cybersecurity practice. He advises on all aspects of data protection law and artificial intelligence (AI) regulation. He also recently led the publication of AI Watch, a global regulatory tool keeping track of AI regulatory developments around the world. Tim has a detailed knowledge of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the UK GDPR, and co-authored White & Case's GDPR Handbook which provides in-depth guidance on the impact of that legislation, and White & Case's GDPR National Implementation Guide, which analyses national GDPR implementing laws in all 30 EEA jurisdictions and the UK.

 


 

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Old Mutual


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Department of Finance and Personnel


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