Most notably, the lead lecturer is Dr Kamil Reddy a computer scientist, who’s doctorate was in information privacy and digital forensics. Kamil has worked with and trained some of the countries’ largest and most complex companies on their data privacy journey. Kamil has also been a chief privacy officer for a number of years, the group head of privacy for a large bank for a brief period and has provided consulting assistance around POPIA to myriad companies across various sectors. He also has practical and consulting experience in POPIA implementations at medium, large and global organisations. Most of his career has been with big four consulting firms.

Brendon Ambrose, an information lawyer with nine years of data privacy experience, covers the legal aspects of the training. Brendon was trained and practiced at one of South Africa’s leading law firms. He subsequently acted as internal counsel and the data protection officer for one of the big four consulting firms.