About the IAPP

Steve Wood

Allen & Overy

Special Advisor

Steve Wood worked for the UK Information Commissioner's Office for 15 years and as Deputy Commissioner from 2016 to 2022. He served as Chair of the OECD Working Party on Data Governance and Privacy from 2019 to 2022. After leaving the ICO, he founded PrivacyX Consulting, which advises organizations on complex and novel digital policy issues. Wood also acts as a Special Advisor to Allen and Overy and is a Visiting Policy Fellow at Oxford University Internet Institute.

Contributions by Steve Wood

• Children's privacy laws and freedom of expression: Lessons from the UK Age-Appropriate Design Code
  Privacy Perspectives
• Online Safety: The Interplay Between New UK Regulation and Data Protection
  Moderator at IAPP Data Protection Intensive: UK 2023
• Data protection trends in children’s online gaming
  Privacy Perspectives
• The U.K.'s Children's Code in Practice and Its Global Influence
  Speaker at IAPP Data Protection Intensive: UK 2022