Ruth Boardman
UK Guide 2025
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About
Provided by Ruth Boardman
Practice Areas
Privacy & Data Protection
Career
Ruth is based in London and co-heads Bird & Bird's International Privacy and Data Protection Group. She enjoys providing practical advice and solutions to complex legal issues.
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. She also helps when there has been a personal data breach. She 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.
Professional Memberships
Ruth is on the Board of the International Association of Privacy Professionals. She also assists the Global Alliance on Responsible Genome and Clinical Data Sharing, where she is a member of its Regulatory and Legal Group.
Publications
Ruth has co-written Data Protection Strategy (Sweet & Maxwell), which has been re-published to take account of the GDPR and UK legislation.
Chambers Review
UK
As a leading voice in the data protection market, Ruth Boardman is held to be an expert across all aspects of GDPR, with experience spanning both compliance and data breaches. Her highly impressive client roster encompasses a range of industries, from technology and financial services to sport.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Ruth is extremely smart and thoughtful and is just an absolute pleasure to work with. She listens extremely well and turns things around quickly to return a very high-quality work product."
"Ruth is extremely smart and thoughtful and is just an absolute pleasure to work with. She listens extremely well and turns things around quickly to return a very high-quality work product."