Stewart Room is a partner at DWF LLP, where he is the global leader of the multidisciplinary data protection and cyber security practice, as well as the technology, media and communications sector leader.

With over 30 years of experience as a barrister,
solicitor and management consultant he focuses on data, technology and communications.

Room is rated as one of the UK’s leading lawyers in his field. The legal directory, Chambers UK, says he ‘is the kind of lawyer who inspires confidence’ and ‘he is an excellent, first-rate, tactical lawyer’.

He is a member of the Cyber Resilience Centre for London's Advisory Board; a member of the European Data Protection Board's support pool of experts; a founding director of The Cyber Security Challenge UK (part of HMG's Cyber Security Strategy); Hon. President of the National Association of Data Protection Officers; and a past winner of the Financial Times ‘Legal Innovative Lawyer of the Year’ award.