Amanda Brock is CEO of OpenUK, the UK body for the business of Open Technology; Board Member, Open Source Initiative; Cabinet Office Open Standards Board Member; Advisory Board Member: KDE, Free BSD, Planet Crust, Everseen, and Mimoto; Charity Trustee Creative Crieff and GeekZone; and European Representative of the Open Invention Network. Amanda was awarded the 2022 UK Lifetime Achievement Award in the Women, Influence & Power Awards.
She is the editor of Open Source, Law, Policy and Practise, being published open access by OUP in July 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 was General Counsel of Canonical for 5 years.