Nerushka Bowan is an emerging technology and privacy law specialist, legal innovator and international speaker based in South Africa. She is the founder of the L.I.T.T. Institute (Law. Innovation. Technology. Tomorrow.) aimed at catalysing change in the legal industry and creating lawyers of the future, and the co-founder and chairperson of an upcoming non-profit, VoLT (voices of law and tech), which will amplify the voices behind legal innovations.

She has a background as a technology and privacy lawyer for an international law firm in Johannesburg, has work experience in London and Melbourne, and in-person speaking experience in the USA, Tanzania and Bahrain, and worldwide, virtually. Bowan is currently involved in consulting and educating on emerging tech and privacy law issues, as well as the awareness and upskilling of lawyers about the future of law. She mentors future legal innovators through the Allan Gray Orbis Foundation. During 2020, she was selected as one of six judges globally of the IAPP Annual Innovation Awards, and was a co-chair of the Johannesburg IAPP KnowledgeNet chapter from 2016 to 2019 (the International Association of Privacy Professionals is the largest association of privacy professionals in the world).

She is also a Consensus Forum Member of the South African National Blockchain Alliance (funded by the Department of Science & Technology, in partnership with the CSIR), and is a consultant trainer at the Blockchain Academy, where she created a course on the legal implications of blockchain and crypto-currency.