Kind leadership. Privacy law. Complex investigations. Dispute resolution.

 

Riki has worked in dispute resolution since 2011, first at the Electricity and Gas Complaints Commissioner’s Office (now Utilities Disputes) and then from 2014 to 2026 leading the Investigations and Dispute Resolution team at the Office of the Privacy Commissioner (OPC). She has done secondments to Crown Law in the Constitutional and Human Rights team, and the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner as Director, Dispute Resolution. She has appeared in the Human Rights Review Tribunal as counsel for the Privacy Commissioner.

At OPC, she managed a team investigating and resolving disputes about alleged breaches of the Privacy Act and related codes of practice.

Most recently, Riki has turned her mind to how best to incorporate the principles of tikanga and te ao Māori into her dispute resolution work.

Riki is an Associate Member of AMINZ and a Fellow of the Resolution Institute.  She has a conjoint degree in law and politics from  the University of Waikato (including an exchange semester focussed on human rights at the University of Copenhagen), a Graduate Diploma in Business from Massey, and a certificate in Conflict Resolution from Queen Margaret University in Scotland.

Qualifications

Degrees: LLB/BA, Grad Dip Business (ADR), Fellow (Resolution Institute), AAMINZ
Admission to High Court: 2014

Contact

https://www.linkedin.com/in/riki-jamieson-smyth-336a2a21a/
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Areas of practice

Dispute resolution, Employment, Governance, Human rights, Information and data, Investigations, Mediation, Privacy, Public law 

Languages spoken

English