Amanda Brock is CEO of OpenUK, the UK organisation for the business of Open Technology (open source software, open hardware and open data); elected Board Member, Open Source Initiative; and appointed member of the Cabinet Office’s Open Standards Board. She is also a member of the British Computer Society Inaugural Influence Board and the European Representative of the Open Invention Network.
Amanda was awarded the UK Lifetime Achievement Award in the Women, Influence & Power in Law Awards, 2022. A lawyer of 25 years’ experience, she previously chaired the Open Source and IP Advisory Group of the United Nations Technology Innovation Labs, sat on the OASIS Open Projects and UK Government Energy Sector Digitalisation Task Force Advisory Boards and been an advisor to a number of start-ups including Beamery and Everseen.