Victoria Watts

Victoria Watts joined Premier Research in February 2018. She oversees data protection strategy and program implementation to ensure compliance with global privacy laws, as well as the quality and compliance divisions of the company. Prior to moving into the world of data protection, she worked in a senior role as a compliance manager for a South African multinational, Barloworld, where she developed their anti-bribery, ethics, and competition law compliance programs.  

A trained lawyer with a specialization in data protection, Victoria earned a Master of Studies in Modern History from the University of Oxford and later a law degree from the University of Law. She later obtained a Practitioner’s Certificate in Data Protection and qualifications from the International Association of Privacy Professionals; as a Certified Information Privacy Technologist and Certified Information Privacy Professional (Europe).  

In July 2025, Ms. Watts was elected as the first chairman for the COSUP, which is the supervisory body that oversees the operation of the EUCROF GDPR Code of Conduct for Service Providers in Clinical Research.  The Code is the first transnational GDPR Code of Conduct in the area of health and clinical research and as Chairman, Ms. Watts has a key role in overseeing the co-regulatory powers of the COSUP in the field of data protection in clinical research.