Katie Hewson
Partner @Stephenson Harwood LLP
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WORK HISTORY
Partner @Stephenson Harwood LLP
I advise organisations on compliance with the UK and EU data protection and e-privacy regimes, helping them put in place contracts and procedures, carry out direct marketing campaigns, use cookies responsibly, demonstrate accountability and put in place defensible risk mitigation strategies. I help my clients uphold data subjects\' rights and respond to investigations, complaints or data breaches. I also advise on commercial contracts and consumer law issues in the art sector. My clients are mainly UK and international corporates in a wide range of sectors, including financial services, retail, hospitality, transport, the arts and information technology. More details of my experience:
EDUCATION
The Latymer School, Edmonton
High School, 4 A grade A-levels; 9 A* grade GCSEs
BPP Law School
Legal Practice Course
University of Oxford
Master’s Degree, Modern History at Merton College
City St George’s, University of London
Common Professional Examination in Law, Law
SKILLS
ABOUT KATIE HEWSON
I am the head of Stephenson Harwood’s international data protection team. I support multinational clients with questions on UK and EU Data Protection, Privacy, Artificial Intelligence and Information law. I was proud to win Lexology’s 2026 Client Choice Award for Data Law in England. I am ranked for data protection in both the Legal 500 and Chambers UK guides and hold AI Governance Professional (AIGP), Fellow of Information Privacy (FIP), CIPP/E and CIPM data protection accreditations from the IAPP. I was awarded Privacy Leader of the year in 2022 and I head the team awarded 2025’s Law Firm of the Year at the PICCASO data privacy awards.Clients come to me for advice on their data-driven projects, data protection and AI contracts, GDPR compliance programmes, complaints and investigations, rollouts and governance of AI and other new technologies, and cookies, direct marketing and freedom of information law queries.
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