Information Commissioner
By Mark Sharron
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14 December 2020
Who is the UK Information Commissioner?
The present Information Commissioner in the UK is Canadian born Elizabeth Denham. She was appointed in July 2016 and has set out strong stances on data protection and information privacy for individual citizens.
Elizabeth Denham, in her role as the ICO’s Information Commissioner, enforces the Data Protection Act and the GDPR.

Mark Sharron
Mark Sharron leads Search & Generative AI Strategy at ISMS.online. His focus is communicating how ISO 27001, ISO 42001 and SOC 2 work in practice - tying risk to controls, policies and evidence with audit-ready traceability. Mark partners with product and customer teams so this logic is embedded in workflows and web content - helping organisations understand, prove security, privacy and AI governance with confidence.
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