Ross McKean
SocioRoss McKean has over 20 years’ experience advising on data protection, privacy and cyber security law and co-chairs the UK data protection and cyber response practice. He advises clients across a wide range of sectors, notably those in the financial services, defense and technology sectors. Ross is an active member of the data protection committee of the International Regulatory Strategy Group and the Data Law Committee of the City of London Law Society.
EXPERIENCE
- Nottingham University, Law
Awards
- Individually ranked in Chambers for data protection (band 3) and outsourcing (band 2)
Publications
- Co-author of the International Regulatory Strategy Group’s example GDPR processor terms, June 2017
- Brexit: Impact on data protection, November 2016
- Ross is a regular speaker on cyber security, incident response, GDPR and data protection.
Prior Experience
- 2016 to date, DLA Piper
- 2012 to 2016, London based European technology law firm
- 1996 to 2012, International law firm
Additional accomplishments
Co-chairs the award winning DLA Piper data protection and cyber practice in the UK and was instrumental in the development of the global DLA Piper GDPR methodology and toolset. Ross and his team have advised on some of the largest and most complex GDPR programmes.
