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Amanda joined Aviva in January 2018 as Head of Legal Operations based in London, following a stint in Amsterdam as Associate General Counsel, Digital Financial Services working in emerging markets at the MNO Veon and as a European Representative of the defensive patent pool, the Open Invention Network.

Having been General Counsel, Canonical – lead commercial sponsor of the open source operating system Ubuntu and open stack cloud partner – for 5 years, she set up and managed the global legal function. Her tech and digital experience is diverse and includes software, cloud computing, big data, IOT, new governance models in the sharing economy, e-business, data and privacy, FinTech and device manufacture and distribution.

Her experience of digital and IT law spans more than 15 years and a range of sectors, with roles as European Manager at DSG International where she was the first lawyer at the ISP, Freeserve (UK’s first and biggest .com IPO) and as part of the Digital Transformation team, UK Legal Director, Aramark and General Counsel Nicole Farhi & French Connection and General Counsel of a major Data Centre provider, her experience lends itself to her very commercial approach to legal advice.

As a solicitor, she is admitted in England and Wales and in Scotland and has a Masters in IP and IT law from Queen Mary and a Masters in Comparative Jurisprudence from New York University.  Amanda has been a Visiting Research Fellow at Queen Mary and was a founder of the QM Legal Incubator Q:Legal.

A regular speaker at international academic, legal and business conferences she has also written extensively on open source, tech and commercial law, and is the author of “E-Business: A Practical Guide to the Laws” (2 editions) and the commercial agreements section of the Oxford University Press’ “Free and Open Source Software, Policy, Law and Practice”.