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title: "Senior Privacy Counsel & Data Protection Officer"
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# Chris Elwell-Sutton
**Senior Privacy Counsel & Data Protection Officer**

Chris is a data protection officer and English-qualified practising lawyer, specialising in data protection and financial services. He heads up privacy in Europe and APAC at Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce. Chris previously acted as a data protection advisor to both AXA Insurance and Deloitte, where he helped to create a new multi-jurisdictional data risk service for assessing privacy, confidentiality and other regulatory obligations around data and technology initiatives. He has a particular interest in implementation of Privacy By Design within complex services organisations.

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*Source: Information Technology & Innovation Foundation (ITIF)*
*URL: https://itif.org/person/chris-elwell-sutton/*