Lynn Wyeth is the Head of the Information Governance & Risk and Data Protection Officer at Leicester City Council and has over 14 years' experience as a practitioner. She holds a post graduate diploma in Information Rights and the CISMP certificate, the Data Protection BCS ISEB and the Freedom of Information BCS ISEB, and is an accredited HSCIPP privacy practitioner.
Lynn is the author of 2 books, A Practical Guide to Handling Freedom of Information Requests, and Data Protection: Compliance in Practice.
Lynn is a Chair and regular speaker at national conferences on information governance matters, and regularly delivers training for Act Now on all aspects of Information law including GDPR.
Lynn was a member of the privacy expert panel member and Vice Chair for the ESRC-funded Administrative Data Research Network (ADRN) for three years. (ADRN considers the use of public data in research proposals). She is also an expert reference group member at NHS Digital’s Information Governance Alliance and for the National Data Guardian.
Lynn is currently undertaking a PhD on Freedom of Information at De Montfort University.
