Amanda provides consultancy to organizations around open source and collaboration and supports legal teams through mentoring. She is the Chair of the Open Source (OS) and Intellectual Property (IP) Advisory Group of the United Nations Technology Innovation Labs and the European Representative of the world’s biggest defensive patent pool, the Open Invention Network. She is also CEO of OpenUK; joint-organizer of the UK Open Source Awards, www.opensourceawards.org, having been a judge of the awards in 2014 and 2015; a member of the OASIS Open Projects' Advisory Council (open source and open standards). She was General Counsel of Canonical, one of the world’s biggest open source companies and commercial sponsor of Ubuntu, setting up the global legal team and running this for five years and has worked in a variety of sectors, ranging from Fashion to Fintech, across EMEA, US, AsiaPac and Emerging Markets, based out of the UK and Amsterdam.