James Leaton Gray

Director, The Privacy Practice

At The Privacy Practice James provides bespoke consultancy services in Data Protection and Privacy for a variety of companies and sectors. These range from financial services and retail, through to law and digital services.  James specialises in privacy implementation advice, GDPR readiness reviews and strategic data policy guidance. He also designs integrated privacy programmes, for example for the BBC’s personalisation and big data capability. As well as running the Privacy Practice he is a Consulting Director at Deloitte and the lead privacy consultant at Kemp Little Consulting.

For over 10 years he headed the BBC’s Information Policy and Compliance Department overseeing the corporation’s systems for compliance with the Data Protection and Freedom of Information Acts. Before that he worked on a variety of policy and management roles in the BBC following a career in current affairs and political programmes production.