Claire Knight-Whiting, CIPP/E

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Xero

General Manager, Legal, Global Privacy

Claire is an internationally experienced privacy lawyer and has spent 15+ years working for global companies on privacy, data protection, cyber and data governance. After a ten-year stint overseas, Claire returned home to New Zealand, where she now leads a team as GM - Privacy & AI Governance at Xero, a global SaaS company providing accounting software to small businesses around the world. Claire also serves on IAPP's ANZ Advisory Board.

 

Contributions by Claire Knight-Whiting

  • Generative AI — A View From The Trenches
    Speaker at IAPP ANZ Summit 2024
  • Consumer Data Right - What Are We in For? Insights and Lessons from Open Banking
    Speaker at IAPP ANZ Summit 2023
  • ANZ Delegate Tour: Privacy developments in New Zealand and global trends for 2023
    Speaker at In-Person Auckland KnowledgeNet: 5 May 2023
  • ANZ Delegate Tour: Privacy developments in Australia and global trends for 2023
    Speaker at In-Person Sydney KnowledgeNet: 1 May 2023
  • ANZ Delegate Tour: Privacy developments in Australia and global trends for 2023
    Speaker at In-Person Sydney KnowledgeNet: 1 May 2023
  • Member of ANZ Advisory Board 2023 - 2024
  • Data Ethics in Organisations
    Speaker at In-Person Auckland KnowledgeNet: 22 June 2022
  • Who Wants to Be a DPO? The Game Show
    Speaker at IAPP Europe Data Protection Congress 2019