Evie Kyriakides
Chief Privacy Officer and Global Digital, Privacy and Security, Associate General Counsel, Mars
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, 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), a Fellow Privacy Professional (FIP) and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. Evie sits on the editorial Board of the International In-House Counsel Journal, is an active member of the International Association of Privacy Professionals, World Federation of Advertisers Digital Committee and AIM’s Digital committee. She has been repeatedly endorsed as a leading in-house lawyer by the outside legal press, was most recently named as the Technology, Media and Telecoms Lawyer of the Year by Chambers and Partners and prior to that, European IP Lawyer of the Year by WorldLeaders.
Evie previously held legal positions at Glaxo Welcome plc and Thorn EMI plc.