John is the data protection and security expert within TikTok’s European Government Relations and Public Policy Unit since 2023. He covers data protection across a number of areas such as user transparency, data sovereignty and cross-border data transfers, trade, digital advertising, privacy enhancing technologies, and cybersecurity. He is active across Europe, covering both EU-level data developments and national-level initiatives. 

John was previously a director at the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), where he spent 10 years across a number of policy areas – including central government liaison on major data-centric projects, the drafting of the DPA2018 and the later ongoing reforms.

John has been an active international participant in regulatory forums, including representing the ICO at the Global Privacy Assembly throughout its chairmanship of the assembly.