James Lindsay is a crisis manager, resilience expert and programme manager who stepped in as the Head of Crisis Management for Cambridge Analytica during the Facebook scandal.
He is a former Regular and then Reserve British Army officer who attended Staff College at the UK Defence Academy.
He then trained as a management consultant at PwC before becoming an independent consultant. At PwC Lindsay specialised in Programme Management and was the EMEA lead for Business Continuity Planning. Lindsay was one of the team of three PwC staff who successfully brought Equitable Life through the Guaranteed Annuity (GAR) disaster.
As an independent consultant Lindsay has worked for numerous large blue chip organisations both on major regulatory and resilience projects and programmes.
She has been a member of the Group of Experts advising on the Digital Rights Charter at the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Digital Transformation in Spain. She has been a witness to the House of Lords Communications and Digital Select Committee, on freedom of expression and public policy, as well as a member of the High-Level Advisory Panel on Technology and Global Order at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Spain.
She is the author of Privacy Is Power, an EconomistBook of the Year, and the first book to call for the end of the trade in personal data. She is the editor of the forth coming Oxford Handbook of Digital Ethics.