Practical LawConferences

Ellis Parry started his career as a solicitor in private practice, after gaining his MBA, 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 2010. At BP Parry is responsible for devising and implementing BP’s global approach to personal information handling, including its GDPR change programme and the maintenance of BP’s Binding Corporate Rules. Parry spoke in 2015 on the topics of the compliance challenges posed by matrixed international businesses, the impact of the GDPR including mandatory data protection impact assessments and the private sector’s view of the Freedom of Information Act and in 2016 on the topic of evidencing accountability under the GDPR. He is a contributing author to Sweet and Maxwell’s “Data Protection Law and Practice” and their new companion volume on the General Data Protection Regulation.