Richard Lindsay

Director for Legal And Public Affairs IPA

Richard trained and qualified as a solicitor at the city law firm, Lovell White Durrant (now Hogan Lovells), where he worked in the firm’s IP/IT and media department. Since leaving Lovells in 2000 to pursue an in-house career, Richard has worked at various media organisations, including Granada Television as Head of Legal & Business Affairs for its Enterprises division and at The Telegraph Media Group as Group Legal Director. Richard joined the IPA in August 2010 and in addition to his role as Director of Legal & Public Affairs he also sits on the Committees of Advertising Practice which write the advertising self-regulatory codes, is a member of Clearcast’s Copy Committee and is a director of MediaSmart, a children’s media literacy programme. Richard was chair of the Communications Agencies Lawyers Forum (CALF) for three years and is the editor of, and a contributing author to, Ad Law, the IPA’s ‘must have’ book on advertising compliance.