Ffion Flockhart

Norton Rose Fulbright

A Norton Rose Fulbright (NRF) lifer, Ffion Flockhart’s star has risen over the last few years as her specialism in cybersecurity and privacy has become a business-critical issue for clients. But she did not start out in that field. Flockhart qualified into the firm’s insurance group, where she developed expertise in Islamic finance, but as the years went on she found herself advising on claims relating to computer fraud and then data breaches.

Ten years after she made partner, Flockhart is now right-hand woman to countless general counsels and executives and is global co-head of information governance, privacy and cybersecurity at NRF. Bilingual in English and Welsh, she has also become an adept translator of technical advice into board-ready language. Flockhart, who is praised for her holistic and proactive approach to crisis management, has won the trust of many institutions in the financial services and aviation sectors – including EasyJet when it suffered a major data breach in 2020. Flockhart represents a fresh breed of all-round risk advisers in a business-critical arena, and having joined NRF’s global executive committee last year, is clearly seen as one of the firm’s new generation of leaders.