Peter Leonard

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About Peter Leonard

Peter Leonard is a data and technology business consultant and lawyer. He is principal of Data Synergies, a business and legal consultancy, and Professor of Practice in the Schools of Information Systems & Technology Management, and Management & Governance at UNSW Business School. He focuses on business transactions with significant data, regulatory and cross-border complexities, often working as a data governance adviser and counsel assisting boards, law firms, business consultancies and in-house counsel to plan, structure and manage multiparty data ecosystems and complex data and AI driven deals and projects. He is also a director of a number of technology and data businesses. Peter was a founding partner of Gilbert + Tobin. Peter is a member of the NSW Government’s AI Review Committee and Privacy and Data Advisory Committee, and of the National Farmer Federation's Farm Data Code Working Group. He is immediate past chair of the Australian Computer Society’s AI Ethics Committee, of the Law Society of NSW Privacy and Data Law Committee, and the IoT Alliance Australia's Data Access and Use Workstream. He is past national Chair of the Law Council of Australia's Media and Communications Committee and past Global Chair of the Technology Committee of the International Bar Association.