Annie Haggar

Annie is the founder and principal of Cyber GC - a legal and consulting practice dedicated to helping Australian businesses prepare for and fight cybercrime. Annie is a multi-award-winning cybersecurity lawyer and was recently awarded General Counsel of the Year (Australian Law Awards - Lawyers Weekly - 2021), Technology, Media and Telecommunications Lawyer of the Year (Corporate Counsel Awards - Lawyers Weekly -2021) and Australian In House Counsel of the Year (Australasian Law Awards 2021).

She brings to Cyber GC the experience gained as 6 years as global legal counsel for Accenture's managed security business and regional counsel for Accenture Security, one of the largest security companies in the world. She has 20 years experience in technology law, and rare expertise advising on enterprise security risk, including legal regulation, and the impact on the whole organisation of cybersecurity issues.

She is a regular speaker on issues around the intersection of the law, cybersecurity and emerging technology.