Ellis Parry
BP Legal / Global Lead - Data Privacy, BP Oil International Ltd
Ellis Parry started his career as a solicitor in private practice before joining AstraZeneca pharmaceuticals in 2001 as a specialist IT lawyer. Parry became AstraZeneca’s Global Privacy Officer in 2005, leaving to join BP as its Global Lead for Data Privacy in December 2010. At BP, Parry is responsible for devising and implementing BP’s global approach to personal information handling, including the maintenance of BP’s Binding Corporate Rules and their interplay with the principle of ‘accountability’ which it is expected will be made explicit in the GDPR. Parry has an MBA. In 2014 Parry spoke both in the US and EU on the topic of accountability and in 2015 has spoken on the topics of the compliance challenges posed by matrixed international businesses, the private sector’s view of the Freedom of Information Act and is the subject of a Leading Practices Profile by the Association of Corporate Counsel.