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Gillian Phillips is a solicitor and in-house lawyer for Guardian News and Media Limited. She was educated at Selwyn College, Cambridge and qualified as a solicitor in 1984 with the law firm Coward (now Clifford) Chance. She has worked in-house since 1987 advising on pre- and post-publication legal issues, including around defamation, open justice, contempt of court, privacy and national security. Since being at GNM, she has advised on phone-hacking, Wikileaks, the Leveson Inquiry, the NSA leaks from Edward Snowden, the HSBC files and the Panama and Paradise Papers. She is a non-resident fellow of the Centre for Media, Data and Society at the Central European University School of Public Policy and holds an honorary law doctorate from London South Bank University.