John Bowman joined IBM’s Chief Privacy Office in October 2022 as AI Ethics Market Strategy Lead. His role includes advising on enhancements to support regulatory compliance, helping to create a deployment framework, and commercialisation of select IBM CPO assets. Previously, John was a Senior Principal in Promontory, IBM Consulting, having joined the company in 2014. John’s client engagements included managing privacy change programmes and advising on issues of risk, policy and compliance. Prior to joining Promontory, John worked at the UK Ministry of Justice where he was Head of EU and International Data Protection Policy. In this role, he served as the UK government’s lead negotiator on the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).