Meet Daimhin Warner

Principal and Director-New Zealand

Daimhin is a senior privacy professional with 20 years’ privacy and related experience. Daimhin loves strategic privacy engagements and reflecting on the big picture (to anyone who’ll listen, including board directors or conference attendees), but he’s also quite comfortable in the detail. Daimhin earned his privacy stripes working with the Office of the Privacy Commissioner for 7 years, ultimately managing the Commissioner’s Auckland Investigations Team. Daimhin then moved to NZ’s largest life insurer, where he created and headed a Privacy Team and programme, before joining Simply Privacy in 2015. Daimhin holds an LLB, an LLM (Hons) in Public Law, and is a Certified Information Privacy Professional/Europe (CIPP/E). He’s also NZ Country Leader for the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP). In 2022, the IAPP recognised Daimhin’s significant contribution to the privacy profession, designating him a Westin Emeritus Fellow.

Certificates

CIPPEmeritus fellow of IAPP