No sooner was yesterday’s list of the top 15 data protection
movers and shakers published than my inbox started to receive a host of
counter suggestions. Yes, there are many more people who deserve to be
recognised as having reached the pinnacle of the UK’s data protection establishment.
Accordingly, I’ve prepared a second list of other popular
nominations. The lucky nominees are, (mostly) in alphabetical order:
(1) Richard Allen, he of Facebook fame
(2) Emma Ascroft, Yahoo!’s european public policy director
(3) Heather Bignell-Blye at the Post Office
(4) Ruth Boardman of Bird & Bird
(5) Phil Booth, of the No2ID and mediconfidential campaign
groups
(6) Ian Brown of the Oxford Internet Institute
(7) Hugo Brown, whose new DP employment service could keep many
of us in gainful employment for years to come
(8) Virginia Chinda-Coutts of RSA
(9) Richard Cumbley of Linklaters
(10) Stephen Deadman, Vodafone’s privacy chief
(11) Dave Evans, formerly ICO cookie captain, now at Swiss Re
(12) Nick Graham, data supremo at Dentons
(13) Gus Hosein of Privacy International
(14) Julian Huppert MP, currently leading Lib Dem thinking on
privacy
(15) Rosemary Jay, currently at Hunton & Williams, author of
a best seller on data protection law
(16) Jim Killock, of the Open Rights Group
(17) Mita Mitra, BT’s data
protection thought leader
(18) Nicola McKilligan at Thomson Reuters
(19) Christopher Millard of Queen Mary College, Professor of Privacy
and Information Law at Queen Mary College
(20) Neil Patterson of Tesco
(21) Chris Pounder of Amberhawk Training, and an occasional FOI
requester. Surely the tallest data protection professional in the UK
(22) Suzanne Rodway of the Royal Bank of Scotland
(23) Richard Thomas, former Information Commissioner & the people’s choice for the next data
protection peer
(24) Ian Walden, Professor of Communications at Queen Mary College
And finally, surely no list could be complete without a special
mention being given to
(25) Stewart Dresner of Privacy Laws & Business, event
organiser extraordinaire
Individuals wishing to have their names removed from this list are welcome to contact me, as well as those who feel they also deserve to be included - or at least be invited to the gala awards dinner.
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