Punit Bhatia is a passionate author, speaker, and advisor. He provides strategic coaching and advice on privacy experts, business owners, and upcoming privacy professionals. Punit is known for providing advice that is simple, pragmatic and business-aligned.
He is the author of books like “Be Ready for GDPR”, “Be an effective DPO” and “Intro to GDPR” that are available on Amazon. The book “Be Ready for GDPR” is listed as #1 in Best GDPR Books by Book Authority. He is an active speaker at international events and delivers guest lectures at Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management. Punit is the founder and owner of Ek Advisory BV. He is a Member of the Training Advisory Board at IAPP and Advisory Member at Plumcloud Labs Inc.

As the lead for privacy program, Punit set up and established the GDPR program at a large European bank. He led the business readiness assessment, compliance approach, and creation of a GDPR compliance roadmap. For a large European bank, he served as a Privacy and Protection Officer to drive GDPR compliance by advising privacy professionals across 30 plus countries. Part of this, he published privacy guidance on several key topics and coached/trained many people.As the lead for sourcing and vendor management in a large European bank, Punit was instrumental in developing, implementing and maintaining a sourcing framework that allowed effective sourcing processes. Punit interacted with various departments and played a key role in major sourcing projects by developing a sourcing strategy to select, negotiate and contract the right suppliers in alignment with key stakeholders. Punit also defined and implemented a governance approach for strategic vendors.Punit has 20 years of experience across three continents. He has led projects and programs of varying complexity in business and technology throughout multiple industries. He has proven expertise in areas of data protection, privacy, sourcing, and vendor management. This allows him to quickly grasp the needs of privacy professionals, business owners, and upcoming privacy experts. Clients use words like “simple”, “pragmatic”, “free of legal jargon” etc. to describe his coaching and advicePunit is a Fellow in Privacy (FIP), Certified Information Privacy Manager (CIPM), Certified Information Privacy Professional Europe (CIPP-E), and Certified Outsourcing Professional (COP).