Professional Development

Formal training taken as the work demanded it - AI governance, data protection, contracts, tax and transformation.

Two kinds of training here. Some was taken years ago because the work demanded it, at the point the regulation or the requirement changed. The rest is recent, and taken deliberately to formalise knowledge already built in practice - I sat the assessments for subjects I was already working in daily, so that the capability is externally evidenced rather than only asserted.

AI governance and risk

• AI Governance Professional (AIGP)International Association of Privacy Professionals - in progress; exam scheduled for December 2026
• AI Governance & ISO 42001 Readiness for GRC, Audit, & LegalBritish Standards Institution, five-course Specialization:
  • ISO/IEC 22989:2023 An Introduction to the Fundamentals of AI
  • AI System Impact Assessment Guidance
  • AI Management Essentials: Integrating ISO 42001 & ISO 23894
  • Understanding the Foundations of the EU AI Act
  • Approaches to Establish Trust in AI Systems
• Artificial Intelligence: An OverviewPolitecnico di Milano, five-course Specialization:
  • Artificial Intelligence: An Overview
  • Machine Learning: an overview
  • Technologies and platforms for Artificial Intelligence
  • Ethics of Artificial Intelligence
  • Artificial Intelligence and legal issues

Data protection and privacy

• Privacy Law and Data ProtectionUniversity of Pennsylvania
• PDPA compliance and data protection seminarsattended across multiple regulatory updates

Commercial and legal

• Contract Management: Building Relationships in BusinessUniversity of Southampton and World Commerce and Contracting
• Contracts and Commercial AgreementsUniversity of California, Santa Barbara

Sustainability

• ESG Essentials for Sustainable BusinessDuke University

Transformation and digital

• Digital TransformationUniversity of Virginia (Darden) and Boston Consulting Group
• Fundamentals of Digital TransformationDartmouth College
• Corporate StrategyUniversity of London and UCL School of Management
• Operations ManagementIESE Business School

Finance and tax

• Financial ManagementDuke Corporate Education, seven-course Specialization:
  • Business Value Creation
  • Cash Flow Management
  • Balance Sheet and Business Cases
  • Risk Management and Financial Theory
  • Investment Evaluation
  • Financial Statements
  • Business Impact
• GST and SST implementation seminarstaken at each regime change, and applied directly to the group's transaction structuring and invoicing treatment