Debbie McDonnell, Senior Consultant, Naomi Korn Associates

About the Trainer

Debbie has worked in copyright for 20 years and is an experienced copyright trainer. Debbie currently works as Intellectual Property Manager at the British Council, the UK’s international organisation for cultural relations and educational opportunities, where she provides training, advice, tools and develops IP policies for the organisation. Debbie is the Naomi Korn Associates author of resources on open licensed assets, on the National Lottery Heritage Fund Digital Heritage Hub.

Debbie was previously Intellectual Property Manager at the Imperial War Museums and Documentation Manager at the Art Fund. She has been the Secretary to the Museums Copyright Group and is an active member of the Museums IP network, the London Copyright Community of Practice for Universities and the Government Department Copyright Practitioners Group. Her earlier career was in investment banking using contracting, language and database skills as Legal Negotiator at Barclays de Zoete Webb and Assistant Manager, Derivatives at WestLB, London.

Debbie holds a PgDip in UK, US and EU Copyright Law from King’s College London, an MA in Art Gallery and Museum Studies from Manchester University and a BA Joint Hons in French and German from Hull University. 

Naomi Korn Associates is one of the most experienced and trusted providers of information law related training and consultancy services for archivists, librarians, curators  and information professionals in the UK. Recent publications include  'Heritage Organisations and Exceptions to Copyright', 'Brexit, Intellectual Property Rights and Heritage: What you need to know', 'Brexit, Data Protection and Heritage: What you need to know' and the delivery of The National Archives Data Protection Toolkit for Archives. Naomi Korn Associates has developed and implements the tried and tested Compliance Methodology, which embeds copyright and data protection into organisational culture and behaviour.