Tim de Sousa is a strategic and operational privacy expert with a focus on emerging technologies. Tim has held senior privacy and digital transformation roles with Westpac, the Commonwealth Bank of Australia, the NSW Government Department of Customer Service, and the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner.
In 2019, Tim established the NSW Government Policy Lab, Australia’s first whole-of-government human-centered policy design lab. In 2020, Tim was named by the World Economic Forum’s as one of the ‘Agile 50’ - the world’s ‘50 most influential people revolutionizing government’ for his work on multi-disciplinary digital transformation and Rules as Code.
Tim currently co-leads the APAC privacy and information governance practice at FTI Consulting, working with some of Australia’s leading brands to build privacy and information governance capability, and manage data risk. Tim sits on ANZ Advisory Board of the International Association of Privacy Professionals, and on the Future Law and Privacy Network Committees of the Australasian Society of Computers and the Law.
