Naomi is one of the UK’s leading experts in copyright, data protection and licensing. She has supported the cultural, heritage, charity, education and private sectors since 1999. Naomi is the CEO and founder of Naomi Korn Associates.

As an experienced course developer and trainer, Naomi has led hundreds of workshops, seminars and conference/webinar presentations. Naomi is a visiting lecturer at several Universities, including the MA in Curating Art and Public Programmes run by the Whitechapel Art Gallery and London South Bank University, a course tutor and lecturer on the MSC in IP and Creative Industries at the University of Edinburgh (2022-2023), as well as lecturing on information law compliance at UCL, the University of York and the University of the West of England. She has also regularly lectured on IP and business, at Kingston University Business School. Naomi currently teaches on an evening course for Art Professionals at City University and curates and chairs the programme for the annual CILIP Copyright Conference.

From 2013-17 Naomi was Chair of the Libraries and Archives Copyright Alliance (LACA). During this period, she led the reform of the UK’s copyright laws on behalf of the cultural heritage sector, resulting in new UK exceptions to copyright in 2014. In 2017, she was also appointed a CREATe Industry Fellow and in 2020, Naomi was awarded the prestigious CILIP K&IM Walford Award for her outstanding contribution to knowledge and information management. .

Naomi has been a Trustee of the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (CILIP) the second largest professional organisation for librarians in the world from 2015–17. In April 2023, Naomi joined the Editorial Board of Archives and Records: The Journal of the Archives and Records Association.

Naomi is the author (or co-author) of several books, articles and sectorial guides including: Copyright: A Practical Guide (2015) and (with Prof. Charles Oppenheim and Prof. Adrienne Muir) Information Law Compliance: Compliance for Librarians, Information Professionals and Knowledge Managers (2020)

Naomi is currently studying part-time for a PhD at the University of Edinburgh analysing the impact of Brexit on the management of orphan works, where she is also a PhD Affiliate and workshop leader at the Centre for Data, Culture and Society.