Olga Ganopolsky

Olga Ganopolsky is the General Counsel – Privacy and Data at Macquarie Group Limited.

In her role, Olga looks after data and privacy in the 32 jurisdictions that Macquarie operates in.

Olga is a seasoned privacy and regulatory lawyer and has had extensive experience in most things data and privacy, ranging from building privacy facing compliance frameworks and functions, defending class actions and other litigation, conducting privacy audits, advising on data breaches, credit reporting matters and advising on complex commercial arrangements where data is an asset.

In the last few years, much of Olga's work has involved work on privacy, data and digital rights in the context of commercial cross border transactions, including merger and acquisition related activities. 

Olga has been active in the relevant law reform processes, most recently on implementing Tranche 1 of the Privacy Act 1988 reforms, changes to the Security of Critical Infrastructure Act 2018 and the Artificial Intelligence Act (Regulation (EU) 2024/1689). 

As part of working in the financial services industry Olga has worked closely on numerous credit reporting related matters, advising on issues as they pertain to credit providers and in her former role, as the General Counsel of the Veda Group as it was then, a credit reporting business.

Olga is also the Chairperson of the Law Councils' Business Law Privacy Committee, the Chair of the NSW Law Society Privacy and Data Committee and a member of the OECD Working Party on Cross Border data transfers.Olga is a key contributor to seminars and publications on this subject.