About the IAPP

Vivienne Artz OBE FCSI (Hon) CMgr CCMI AIGP

Vivienne is the CEO of the FTSE Women Leaders Review, the UK’s business-led voluntary framework, supported by Government to improve the representation of women on the Boards and Leadership teams of the FTSE 350 and 50 of the UK’s largest private companies. 

Vivienne is also a Board Director and Advisor, strategic consultant and expert on data, digital, privacy, financial crime and inclusion and diversity issues, with over twenty five years experience in the global financial and professional services sector. Her current roles include Board Director of Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (Vice Chair) and Freegold Ventures Limited, Data Strategy and Privacy Policy Advisor to the Centre for Information Policy Leadership, Vice-Chair of PICCASO and founder of the PICCASO Awards, Expert Advisor to GSS-Rose Limited, Senior Advisor to Alix Partners, Chair of the Data Privacy Expert Group at the Global Coalition for the Fight Against Financial Crime, Data Policy Advisory Council member of the Software & Information Industry Association, and Advisory Board member of the All Party Parliamentary Group for AI. Vivienne also advises a range of innovative, fast growth technology companies, and was Chapter co-lead of the City of London Vision for Economic Growth report.

Previously, Vivienne was a Managing Director and Chief Privacy Officer at the London Stock Exchange Group, Refinitiv and Thomson Reuters, overseeing global privacy strategy and practice across 190 countries. Vivienne was previously Managing Director and Global Head of Privacy Legal & Head of International for the Intellectual Property and Technology Law Group at Citi. Before moving to Citi in 2000, Vivienne practised as a solicitor in London, focusing on technology, privacy and commercial matters in three City law firms.

Vivienne is a Patron of Women in Finance Rwanda, and is the former President and CEO of Women in Banking & Finance, then Advisory Board member. Vivienne is on the Alumni Advisory Board of Pembroke College Oxford University, the International Business & Diplomatic Exchange AI and Data Lead, is on the Founding Editorial Board for the Journal of AI and Ethics, is an Honorary Fellow of The Charter Institute of Securities & Investments, and a Companion of the Chartered Management Institute. Vivienne is the former and longest serving Chair of the International Regulatory Strategy Group Data Committee, the Board of Directors of the International Association of Privacy Professionals and member of the Business and Law Advisory Board of St Mary’s University.

Vivienne is an exceptional gender champion and leader having been awarded the Champion for Women Award at the Women in Banking and Finance Awards for Achievement 2016. Vivienne was recognised in the 2019 PrivSec200 list of privacy and security professionals across Europe and received the 2019 WeAreTheCity Rising Star Editor’s Choice Award in recognition of her tireless efforts in the diversity space, and as an individual who is pushing for change within her industry. Vivienne placed in the HERoes Executive Women Role Models List in 2020 and 2021, was awarded Woman Solicitor of the Year in the Law Society Excellence Awards in 2020, and has many years of experience leading a broad range of diversity initiatives and groups both within firms and across sectors. Vivienne was awarded an OBE in the Queen’s New Year’s Honours in 2021 for services to financial services and gender diversity, and was included in the GDR Women in Data 2022 list as a leader at the cutting edge of legislation, regulation and technology around the world.