Ruth Boardman

Ruth Boardman is a Partner based in London and co-head of Bird & Bird's International Privacy and Data Protection Group. Her primary practice area is Data Protection Law.

She has extensive experience advising a broad range of organisations on data privacy matters. She advises on the data protection aspects of new products or services and on commercial arrangements involving personal data, and helps when there has been a personal data breach. She also advises clients on their dealings with data protection authorities and with those involved in passing new data protection legislation.

She works with clients in many sectors, including online providers, ad-tech, ed-tech and all companies providing services likely to be accessed by children, new technology and electronics, life sciences, financial services including payments, creative industries (such as music and film), automotive and sports.

She has co-written Data Protection Strategy (Sweet & Maxwell), which has been re-published to take account of the GDPR and UK legislation. She recently served on the Board of the International Association of Privacy Professionals and has been a member of the UK Government's Expert Council on data transfers. She also assisted the Global Alliance on Responsible Genome and Clinical Data Sharing, where she served as a member of its Regulatory and Legal Group.