David Field
Chief Legal Counsel and Chief People Officer Canon OceaniaDavid is the Chief Legal Counsel and Chief People Officer at Canon Oceania, after having worked in-house as a lawyer at Telstra for more than nineteen years.
Outside of work, David is a fanatical photographer and one of the founders of the Laws of Creativity portrait project, exploring the role that creativity plays in the practice of law.
David co-created and teaches the course “The Inhouse Counsel - Law, Skills and Practice” as part of the Master of Laws program at the University of New South Wales.
David is a Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and serves on the boards of Canon New Zealand Limited and the Minds Count Foundation, a not-for-profit working in mental wellbeing in legal workplaces.