Leigh Bates

Leigh is an experienced Partner leading PwC’s Financial Services Data Analytics practice, specialising in risk and regulatory compliance data analytics. Leigh is also the UK risk practice leader for Artificial Intelligence (ML & GenAI) across all industry sectors.

He brings over 25 years of experience in data management and advanced analytics, with specific expertise in regulatory data management, Chief Data Office advisory, data analytics strategy and AI. Over his career Leigh has focussed on leading innovative, data analytics solutions to solve important business issues for clients. More recently Leigh has led the development of Generative AI to optimise risk management and internal audit reporting alongside developing accelerators to support clients with their safe and trusted adoption of AI.