LoginGreg Hughes
Associate Director (2026-2029)
Greg is an experienced regulatory lawyer with expertise in consumer law, privacy and data protection, human rights and security/surveillance. He worked as an administrative civil servant before qualifying into the Government Legal Service in 1995, joining the-then Office of Fair Trading. In 1998 Greg moved on to BT plc, where he had a variety of roles, including building and leading the Consumer Law and Privacy Law functions. In 2014, he was asked to set up a new Security legal team following the Snowden revelations on government surveillance and led BT’s response to the government’s subsequent review of investigatory powers. Greg left BT in 2018 to set up his own legal consultancy, specialising in complex privacy and security issues, and has had a variety of public and private sector clients.
Now semi-retired, Greg is a trustee/director of a mental health charity and a trustee of a hospital charity. He also has a keen interest in AI ethics and is now studying part-time for a master’s degree on this.
