David Bateson
Senior Vice-President, Legal, Intellectual Property, Privacy and Sustainability at Canon
David Bateson joined Canon in 2006 to head the Europe, Middle East, and Africa legal team. Since then, he has taken on responsibility for intellectual property, sustainability, government affairs, and data privacy. Governance and risk management are also part of his remit. Mr. Bateson has worked in the electronics, IT-services, software, market-research, and legal sectors, in a range of corporate cultures including Japanese, US, Anglo-French, and British. He is a member of the Canon Europe Operations Committee and is involved in wider corporate activities such as mergers and acquisitions, transformation, customer insight, and mentoring. In April 2020, he joined the Board of Trustees of CALM (Campaign Against Living Miserably), which is leading a movement against suicide, the single biggest killer of men under 45 in the UK and the cause of 18 deaths every day.