Rathini Stear is Legal Director at Climate X, where she’s building legal frameworks for problems that don’t yet have rulebooks. With 17 years in law — spanning Lloyds Banking Group, Sage and Expedia – she now works at the sharpest edge of data governance and AI liability in one of the most fast-moving sectors around.
At Climate X, Rathini is answering questions the industry hasn’t fully figured out yet: who owns the risk when AI-generated data informs trillion-dollar infrastructure decisions? What does compliance look like when the regulation is still being written? How do you build a legal function that drives commercial growth rather than just policing it?
She’s a passionate advocate for legal teams as genuine business enablers – not just gatekeepers – and brings a refreshingly candid, human perspective on what modern in-house leadership actually looks like.