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Robert Bond

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Work Department

Data Protection and Information Law

Position

Robert has over 40 years of experience as a legal expert and author in the fields of e-commerce, computer games, media and publishing, data protection, information security and cyber risks.

Robert is a Solicitor and Notary Public and a Certified Compliance & Ethics Professional. He has specialised in data protection & information security law since 1983.

He is President of the Society of Corporate Compliance & Ethics and the Health Care Compliance Association, a Director, Company Secretary and Trustee of South West Grid for Learning which is part of the UK Safer Internet Centre and runs Report Harmful Content

He is a founder member of the UN Global Pulse Expert Group on Governance of Data and of AI, Head of the Examination Board for the Practitioner Certificate in Data Protection, Chairman of the Governance Board of the Data Protection Network, a Director and Honorary Solicitor of the City Livery Club and a Director and Council Member of the Notaries Society.

Robert is listed in Legal 500 as a Leading Individual for Data Protection where he is described as “astounding” and in Band 1 for Data Protection in Chambers UK 2019 where clients describe him as “absolutely exemplary” and the fact that his knowledge of data protection law is “astounding, and his application equally impressive.”

Career

Qualified as a Solicitor 1979
Qualified as a Notary Public 1989
Certified Compliance & Ethics Professional

Memberships

Law Society of England & Wales
Companion of the British Computer Society
Fellow of the Society of Advanced Legal Studies
International Association of Defense Counsel
Notaries Society
Liveryman of City of London Solicitors’ Company and Liveryman of Stationers & Newspaper Makers Company

Education

BA (Hons) Law Wolverhampton University