About the IAPP

Olga Ganopolsky is the General Counsel – Privacy and Data at Macquarie Group Limited.

Prior to joining the Macquarie Group, Olga was the General Counsel and Company Secretary of the Veda Group (now Equifax Limited), Australia’s largest and oldest consumer credit reporting business, a commercial credit reporting business and several other data driven business in Australia and New Zealand. Olga is a seasoned privacy and regulatory lawyer and has had extensive experience in most things data and privacy, ranging from building privacy facing compliance frameworks and functions, defending class actions and other litigation, conducting privacy audits and advising on complex data structures and commercial arrangements where data is a vital and very valuable asset. Much of Olga’s work has involved the privacy law reform process, such as implementing changes introduced by the General Data Protection Regulation, the EU AI Act, the reforms to the Security of Critical Infrastructure Act 2018 and the pending reforms to the Privacy Act 1988. 

Olga is the Chair of the Privacy Committee of the Law Council of Australia and the Chair of the Privacy and Data Committee of the Law Society of New South Wales. Olga also is a director of IDCare, a charity providing Australia and New Zealand's national identity & cyber specialist support service, a member of OECD’s Cross-border payments and data flows experts community, and a member of the SWIFT data protection working group.