Dr. Valerie Lyons
Chief Operations Officer, Senior Privacy Specialist, BH Consulting
Valerie Lyons is a highly experienced senior cybersecurity and privacy leader, and currently COO of BH Consulting, a data protection and cybersecurity firm based in Ireland. Recently included as one of Europe's top 100 women in cybersecurity, and a member of the European Data Protection Board's pool of experts, Valerie completed an award-winning PhD in 2022, researching organizational approaches to Information Privacy. She also lectures on the topic of cybersecurity, privacy and ethics in several Irish academic institutions. Her key motivation is to change the current organizational approach to privacy so that privacy is the baseline rather than the goal, and to bring an understanding of privacy that extends beyond legislative dimensions.