Valerie Lyons
Chief Operations Officer, Senior Privacy Specialist, BH Consulting
Dr. Valerie Lyons is author of the best-selling book The Privacy Leader Compass. She has almost three decades of experience as a senior cybersecurity and privacy leader. Currently she serves as Director, and Chief Operations Officer at BH Consulting - a data protection and cybersecurity firm based in Ireland. In 2022 she was included in Europe's top 100 women in cybersecurity, and is a member of the European Data Protection Board's pool of experts. She also lectures on cybersecurity, privacy and ethics in several Irish academic institutions. Valerie holds an award-winning PhD in organizational approaches to Information Privacy as an ESG. Her key motivation is to move organizational approaches to privacy from ‘privacy as the baseline’ to ‘privacy as the goal’.