Barbara Cosgrove

Vice President, Chief Privacy Officer, Workday

Barbara Cosgrove is vice president, chief privacy officer at Workday. Barbara has extensive expertise in leading international data protection, ethics, and compliance programs, including oversight of global data privacy programs, implementation of technology compliance standards, and development of privacy-by-design and machine learning ethics-by-design frameworks. She has also served as the chief security officer for Workday.

Prior to joining Workday, Barbara led various compliance programs within Kaiser Permanente and PeopleSoft. Barbara holds a Juris Doctor degree from Widener Law School and a bachelor’s degree from Pennsylvania State University.

Katherine Fick

Associate General Counsel, IBM

Katherine is Associate General Counsel at IBM, where she leads the legal team that supports IBM’s Security business unit. Her work ranges from counseling ethical hackers and incident response teams to supporting M&A deals to working with cross-functional stakeholders on data privacy and security issues. She was among the founding members of the BBA’s Privacy, Cybersecurity, and Digital Law Section, and served as a member of the BBA’s Public Interest Leadership Program while an associate at Foley Hoag. She is also an Adjunct Professor at Boston College Law School, where she co-teaches a course on cybersecurity law and policy. Katherine is the past board chair of ShelterBox USA, an international disaster relief agency, and volunteers as a Response Team Member with the organization, a role that has allowed her to assist Ukrainian refugees in Moldova; negotiate an MOU with the Peruvian equivalent of FEMA; collaborate with Habitat for Humanity in responding to the hurricanes in the Dominican Republic; and assist with additional disaster responses in Malawi, Paraguay, and Argentina. She is a graduate of Calvin College and the University of Chicago Law School.

Lindsey Finch

Executive Vice President, Global Privacy & Product Legal, Salesforce

As Executive Vice President, Global Privacy & Product Legal, Lindsey Finch is responsible for leading Salesforce’s global privacy team as well as the Company’s product, engineering, and cybersecurity legal functions

Lindsey is a technology lawyer with significant expertise in privacy, product development, go-to-market strategy, and public policy matters. She regularly works with Salesforce’s customers on privacy and data protection matters, collaborates with Salesforce’s Government Affairs team on policy and regulatory engagement, and partners with Salesforce’s Technology, Marketing & Products team on a variety of legal issues.

Lindsey was included in Fortune Magazine’s “40 Under for 40” for Technology in 2020 and was an inaugural recipient of the National Law Review’s Cybersecurity & Data Privacy Trailblazer award in 2015. She is an adviser to the American Law Institute’s Principles for Data Privacy Law and Principles for a Data Economy as well as an Advisory Board Member for the Future of Privacy Forum.

Prior to joining Salesforce in 2008, Lindsey was a privacy lawyer at General Electric. Before and during law school, Lindsey worked on privacy-related matters at the U.S. Federal Trade Commission and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.

Lindsey received her Juris Doctor from American University, Washington College of Law and her Bachelor of Arts in Communication and Political Science from the University of California, San Diego. Lindsey is a member of the California Bar.

Anne J. Flanagan

Vice President for Artificial Intelligence, FPF

Anne J. Flanagan serves as the Vice President for Artificial intelligence at FPF. Anne leads FPF’s portfolio of projects exploring the data flows driving algorithmic and AI products and services, their opportunities and risks, and the ethical and responsible development of this technology.

An international policy expert in Data and Artificial Intelligence, Anne is an economist and strategic technology governance and business leader with 18+ years’ experience on five continents, including in the EU and the U.S.

Anne spent over a decade in the Irish government and EU institutions, including developing Ireland’s technical policy positions and diplomatic strategy in relation to EU legislation on telecoms, digital infrastructure, and data. She has represented Ireland in the EU Digital Single Market Strategic Group at the European Commission, the Working Party on Telecommunications and Information Society at the Council of the European Union and was responsible for foundational work on the EU’s Digital Single Market, including the EU’s early approach to AI governance.

Since moving to the U.S. in 2019, Anne has held several senior positions in technology policy, where she has helped senior technology business leaders shape responsible and sustainable technology development through her research, advice, and expertise. At the World Economic Forum, she developed and led a global portfolio of work on Data Policy and later led cross-product policy strategy for Reality Labs Policy at Meta Platforms Inc. in San Francisco, California.

Anne holds a Masters in Economics and Political Science from Trinity College Dublin, a Masters in International Relations from Dublin City University, and a Masters of Business Administration from Trinity College Dublin. Amongst her accolades, Anne is a Member of the Board of Advisors of the Innovation Value Institute (IVI) at Maynooth University and a recognized Woman Leader in Data and AI at WLDA.tech.

Valerie Foushee

Congresswoman, D-NC, U.S. House of Representatives; Congressional AI Caucus

Valerie Foushee represents North Carolina’s Fourth District which includes Alamance, Durham, Granville, Orange, and Person Counties and parts of Caswell County.

Before she began serving in Congress, Valerie worked as an administrator for the Chapel Hill police department and served 25 years as a local and state elected official. She went from serving on the Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools Board, to being the first African American woman elected to chair the Orange County Board of Commissioners, to serving in the North Carolina State House and the North Carolina State Senate.

In Congress, Valerie serves on the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and is the Vice Ranking Member of the Railroads, Pipelines, and Hazardous Materials Subcommittee and a member of the Highways and Transit Subcommittee. She also serves on the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, and is the Ranking Member of the Investigations and Oversight Subcommittee and a member of the Energy Subcommittee.

Jennifer Huddleston

Senior Fellow in Technology Policy, CATO Institute

Jennifer Huddleston is a senior fellow in technology policy at the Cato Institute. Her research focuses on the intersection of emerging technology and law with a particular interest in the interactions between technology and the administrative state. Huddleston’s work covers topics including antitrust, online content moderation, data privacy, and the benefits of technology and innovation. Her work has appeared in USA Today, National Review, the Chicago Tribune, Slate, RealClearPolicy, and U.S. News and World Report. She has published in law journals including the Berkeley Technology Law Journal, George Mason Law Review, Oklahoma Law Review, and Colorado Technology Law Journal. Huddleston has a JD from the University of Alabama School of Law and a BA in political science from Wellesley College.

Cameron Kerry

Ann R. and Andrew H. Tisch Distinguished Visiting Fellow, Brookings Institute

Cameron Kerry is a global thought leader on privacy, artificial intelligence, and cross-border challenges in information technology. He joined Governance Studies and the Center for Technology Innovation at Brookings in December 2013 as the first Ann R. and Andrew H. Tisch Distinguished Visiting Fellow. He leads two projects: The Privacy Debate, which engages policymakers and stakeholders on the national legislative debate on privacy, and the Forum for Cooperation on AI, a series of roundtables bringing together officials and experts from several countries to identify avenues of cooperation on AI regulation, standards, and research and development. 

In addition to his Brookings affiliation, Kerry is a visiting scholar at the MIT Media Lab. He also served as senior counsel at Sidley Austin LLP in Boston, Massachusetts and Washington, D.C., where his practice involved privacy, security, and international trade issues. Before Kerry’s appointment to the Obama administration in 2009, he practiced law at the Mintz Levin firm in Boston and Washington and taught telecommunications law as an adjunct professor at Suffolk University Law School. Kerry has also been actively engaged in politics and community service throughout his adult life. During the 2004 presidential campaign, he was a close adviser and national surrogate for Democratic nominee John Kerry, traveling to 29 States and even Israel. He has served on the boards of nonprofits, and is currently on the board of the National Archives Foundation. 

Samuel Levine

Director of Bureau of Consumer Protection, Federal Trade Commission

Michelle Maldonado

Delegate, D-VA, 2024 Virginia House of Delegates Communications, Technology, and Innovation Committee

Elected to the Virginia House of Delegates in 2021, Michelle is the first woman and first woman of color to represent her district and has earned a reputation as an effective, results-oriented voice. Leveraging her depth of experience from the business and technology sector, Michelle co-founded the bipartisan Virginia Technology & Innovation Caucus where she serves as Founding Chair and seeks to foster and promote technology and innovation, support legislation that creates jobs, enable the responsible use of technology to improve the lives of all Virginians, promote the technology and innovation climate in Virginia, and engage on emerging policy issues.

Colleen McClain

Research Associate, PEW Research Center

Colleen is a Research Associate at Pew Research Center, specializing in internet and technology research. Her work focuses on designing and analyzing survey data, as well as using non-survey data sources, to map Americans’ digital lives – from understanding how they engage with others on social media or think about their personal information online to documenting digital divides.

Christina Michelakaki

Policy Counsel for Global Privacy, FPF

Christina Michelakaki is a Policy Counsel for Global Privacy at the Future of Privacy Forum (FPF). She is following global trends in data protection and privacy laws around the world but also focuses on European and national case law, recent academic research, guidelines, and decisions from the European Data Protection Board and national Data Protection Authorities and actively monitors the activity of EU institutions around privacy and data protection, including Communications and Proposals of the European Commission and legislative reports from the European Parliament and the Council of the EU. She has been conducting extensive research on Data Protection by Design and by Default and was one of the principal authors of an FPF Report pertaining to this matter. Her research interests also revolve around fundamental rights and Artificial Intelligence.

Christina has a legal background and holds an LL.M on Information Technology, Media & Communications Law from the London School of Economics (LSE) (2022, London), where she wrote her thesis on Automated decision-making and the “right to an explanation” under the GDPR. She is an EU qualified lawyer and a member of the Thessaloniki Bar Association in Greece.

Arvind Narayanan

Professor of Computer Science, Princeton University

Arvind Narayanan is a professor of computer science at Princeton and the director of the Center for Information Technology Policy. He co-authored a textbook on fairness and machine learning and is currently co-authoring a book on AI snake oil. He led the Princeton Web Transparency and Accountability Project to uncover how companies collect and use our personal information. His work was among the first to show how machine learning reflects cultural stereotypes, and his doctoral research showed the fundamental limits of de-identification. Narayanan is a recipient of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE).

Jules Polonetsky

Chief Executive Officer, FPF

Jules has served for 15 years as CEO of the Future of Privacy Forum, a global non-profit organization that serves as a catalyst for privacy leadership and scholarship, advancing principled data practices in support of emerging technologies.

Jules is co-editor of The Cambridge Handbook of Consumer Privacy, published by Cambridge University Press (2018). More of his writing and research can be found at www.fpf.org and on Google Scholar and SSRN.

Jules has worked on consumer protection issues for 30 years, having served as Chief Privacy Officer at AOL and at DoubleClick, as Consumer Affairs Commissioner for New York City, as an elected New York State Legislator, and as a congressional staffer for then-congressman Charles Schumer.

Jules practiced law in the New York office of Stroock & Stroock & Lavan from 1989 to 1990. He is a graduate of New York University School of Law and Yeshiva University and is admitted to the Bars of New York and Washington, D.C. Jules is a Certified Information Privacy Professional.

Alan Raul

Board President, FPF

Alan Raul is the Board President of the Future of Privacy Forum.

Raul has served on FPF’s board for eight years and is the founder and, for 25 years, the leader of Sidley Austin LLP’s highly-ranked Privacy and Cybersecurity Law practice. He is currently Senior Counsel at Sidley. Raul brings his breadth of knowledge in global data protection and compliance programs, cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, national security, and Internet law. He is also currently a member of the Technology Litigation Advisory Committee of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Litigation Center. Raul is also a Lecturer in Law at Harvard Law School, where he teaches Digital Governance and Cybersecurity.

He previously served as Vice Chairman of the White House Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board, General Counsel of the Office of Management and Budget, and of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, and Associate Counsel to the President.

Tatiana Rice

Deputy Director for U.S. Legislation, FPF

Tatiana Rice, CIPP/EU, serves as Deputy Director with FPF’s U.S. Legislation team and leads FPF’s Biometrics workstream. In her role, Tatiana conducts research and analysis on legal and legislative trends relating to consumer data privacy, biometric technologies, and privacy enforcement on the federal and state levels. During her time at FPF, Tatiana has filed comments to the Federal Trade Commission on their Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking regarding data privacy and security, provided testimony to state legislatures regarding privacy proposals, and published independent analysis on the intersection of artificial intelligence and civil rights law.

Tatiana comes to FPF from Shook, Hardy, & Bacon LLP, where she led biometric compliance efforts and assisted industry clients with managing data privacy compliance, litigation, and investigation. She graduated from Washington University School of Law, where she worked as a law clerk both for the Department of Justice and the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Illinois.

Adam Russell

Chief Vision Officer, U.S. Artificial Intelligence Safety Institute, NIST

Adam Russell is the chief vision officer for the U.S. Artificial Intelligence Safety Institute. In this role, he will shape and help implement the vision and strategy for the AISI, while also communicating that vision externally.

Russell is the director of the Information Sciences Institute’s AI Division at the University of Southern California. Russell previously worked at University of Maryland’s Applied Research Laboratory for Intelligence and Security, where he focused on human-AI teaming, forecasting and collective intelligence. While at UMD, he also helped stand up the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H).

Prior to UMD and ARPA-H, Russell served in government for over a decade, both as a program manager at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) — launching programs focused on the social sciences and AI — and as a program manager at the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) — launching programs on enhancing intelligence and measuring trust and trustworthiness.

He received a Ph.D. in social anthropology from the University of Oxford, where he was a Rhodes Scholar, and holds a B.A. in cultural anthropology from Duke University.

David Sallay

Director for Youth & Education Privacy, FPF

David Sallay is the Director for Youth & Education Privacy at the Future of Privacy Forum (FPF). David previously served as the Chief Privacy Officer and the Student Privacy Auditor at the Utah State Board of Education, where he worked with schools and districts on implementing Utah’s state student privacy law. Before focusing on privacy, he worked in education as a teacher of English as a Foreign Language at Qatar University and at high schools in Hungary. He holds a Masters in Public Policy from the University of Utah and a Masters in Education from the University of Pittsburgh.

Jim Siegl

Senior Technologist for Youth & Education Privacy, FPF

Jim Siegl, CIPT, is a Senior Technologist with the Youth & Education Privacy team. For nearly two decades prior to joining FPF, Jim was a Technology Architect for the Fairfax County Public School District with a focus on privacy, security, identity management, interoperability, and learning management systems. He was a co-author of the CoSN Privacy Toolkit and the Trusted Learning Environment (TLE) seal program and holds a Master of Science in the Management of Information Technology from the University of Virginia.

Keith Sonderling

Commissioner, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC)

Keith E. Sonderling was confirmed by the U.S. Senate, with a bipartisan vote, to be a Commissioner on the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) in 2020. Until January of 2021, he served as the Commission’s Vice-Chair. His term expires July of 2024.

Prior to his confirmation to the EEOC, Commissioner Sonderling served as the Acting and Deputy Administrator of the Wage and Hour Division at the U.S. Department of Labor. Before joining the Department of Labor in 2017, Commissioner Sonderling practiced Labor and Employment law in Florida. Commissioner Sonderling also serves as a Professional Lecturer in the Law at The George Washington University Law School, teaching employment discrimination.

Since joining the EEOC, one of Commissioner Sonderling’s highest priorities is ensuring that artificial intelligence and workplace technologies are designed and deployed consistent with long-standing civil rights laws. Commissioner Sonderling has published numerous articles on the benefits and potential harms of using artificial intelligence-based technology in the workplace and speaks globally on these emerging issues.

Jameson Spivack

Senior Policy Analyst for Immersive Technologies, FPF

Jameson Spivack is Senior Policy Analyst for Immersive Technologies at the Future of Privacy Forum, where he leads FPF’s emerging work on VR, AR, and other related technologies. Previously, Jameson was an Associate with the Center on Privacy & Technology at Georgetown Law, where he worked on research and policy advocacy related to algorithmic technologies like face recognition in the criminal legal system. Prior to this he worked in communications for an international development nonprofit. Jameson received his M.A. in the Communication, Culture & Technology program at Georgetown University, and his B.A. in Government & Politics from University of Maryland.

Omer Tene

Partner, Goodwin Procter LLP, FPF

Omer Tene is an Associate Professor at the College of Management School of Law, Rishon Le Zion, Israel; Affiliate Scholar at the Stanford Center for Internet and Society; and Visiting Fellow at the Berkeley Center for Law and Technology and the Institute for Jewish Law and Israeli Law, Economy and Society.

He is Managing Director of Tene & Associates, where he consults the Israeli government, data protection authority and private sector businesses ranging from technology start-ups to Fortune 100 companies in the financial, health, telecom, mobile and online industries on privacy, data protection and law and technology issues. He was appointed by the Israeli Minister of Justice as Member of the National Privacy Protection Council and is a member of the advisory board of the Future of Privacy Forum; European advisory board of IAPP; and Editorial Board of International Data Privacy Law (Oxford University Press). He headed the Steering Committee for the 32nd annual conference of privacy and data protection commissioners.

He is a graduate of the JSD and LL.M. programs at NYU School of Law and received an MBA degree from INSEAD as well as LL.M. and LL.B. degrees from Tel Aviv University. He was an associate at the New York office of Debevoise & Plimpton and at the Paris office of Fried Frank and a Senior Research Fellow at the British Institute of International and Comparative Law in London, where he directed the Data Protection Group.

Josh Lee Kok Thong

Managing Director for APAC, FPF

Josh is deeply passionate in the issues at the intersection of law, policy and technology, and is a changemaker in the spheres of the law of tech, and the tech of law. As a legal architect who hopes to reshape relationships disrupted by technology, Josh is the Managing Director, Asia-Pacific of the Future of Privacy Forum.

Josh received his LL.M. from the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law in 2022, where he was named to the Dean’s List for his academic achievements.  Before postgraduate studies, Josh served for half a decade in the Singapore Government. More recently, he was the Legal Policy Manager for Artificial Intelligence (AI) Governance in Singapore’s Personal Data Protection Commission, where he managed Singapore’s overall AI governance policies. Before that, Josh was an Assistant Director for Legal Policy in the Ministry of Law, where he drove criminal and civil legislative reform, particularly in technology and online harms. He also practiced as an international arbitration lawyer in a large Singaporean law firm.

As a driver of the tech of law, Josh is the first Chairperson of the Asia-Pacific Legal Innovation and Technology Association (https://alita.legal), a pan-regional industry platform driving legal innovation and technology initiatives in the region. Josh also co-founded LawTech.Asia (https://lawtech.asia) and etpl.asia, organizations that advance thought leadership on law and technology in Asia. In 2019, Josh was identified by Asia Law Portal as one of Asia’s Top 30 Persons to Watch in the business of law.

In addition, Josh is a member of Singapore’s Law Reform Subcommittee for Robotics and AI, where he authored a law reform report on “Criminal Liability, Robots and AI Systems”.  Josh was also a chapter co-author of Law and Technology in Singapore, which was edited by Professor Simon Chesterman, Professor Goh Yihan, and Judge of Appeal Andrew Phang. Given his keen interest in new technologies like AI and its potential impacts on society and governance, Josh is also a voting member of the IEEE P2863 Working Group on Organisational Governance of AI Systems, and holds research roles in the National University of Singapore and the Singapore Management University. He speaks regularly at conferences and dialogues in the law of tech and tech of law ecosystems.

John Verdi

Senior Vice President for Policy, FPF

John Verdi is Senior Vice President for Policy at the Future of Privacy Forum (FPF). John supervises FPF’s policy portfolio, which advances FPF’s agenda on a broad range of issues, including: Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning; Algorithmic Decision-Making; Ethics; Connected Cars; Smart Communities; Student Privacy; Health; the Internet of Things; Wearable Technologies; De-Identification; and Drones.

John previously served as Director of Privacy Initiatives at the National Telecommunications and Information Administration, where he crafted policy recommendations for the US Department of Commerce and President Obama regarding technology, trust, and innovation. John led NTIA’s privacy multistakeholder process, which established best practices regarding unmanned aircraft systems, facial recognition technology, and mobile apps. Prior to NTIA, he was General Counsel for the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC), where he oversaw EPIC’s litigation program. John earned his J.D. from Harvard Law School and his B.A. in Philosophy, Politics, and Law from SUNY-Binghamton.

Adonne Washington

Policy Counsel for Data, Mobility, Location, FPF

Adonne Washington, Esq. is a 2020 graduate of Howard University School of Law. She is currently Policy Counsel: Data, Mobility, Location with the Future of Privacy Forum in Washington, DC. FPF brings together industry, academics, consumer advocates, and other thought leaders to explore the challenges posed by technological innovation and develop privacy protections, ethical norms, and workable business practices. She works on privacy and technology matters specifically in relation to data, mobility, and location. Prior to joining FPF, Adonne was the Digital Justice Associate Counsel with the national branch of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law working on matters at the intersection of racial justice, technology, and privacy. Adonne received her BA in social relations and policy with a minor in public relations from Michigan State University in May 2017.

Gabriela Zanfir-Fortuna

Vice President for Global Privacy, FPF

Dr. Gabriela Zanfir-Fortuna is the Vice President for Global Privacy at the Future of Privacy Forum, where she leads the work on Global privacy developments and counsels on EU data protection law and policy, working with all FPF’s offices and partners around the world. She created and curates FPF’s Global Privacy blog series.

Gabriela currently serves as a member of the Reference Panel of the Global Privacy Assembly, and she is also a member of the Executive Committee of the ACM FAccT (Fairness, Accountability and Transparency) Conference, since 2021. She is a member of the European Digital Media Observatory (EDMO) Working Group on Access to Platform Data, working on the creation of a Code of Conduct on access to platform data under Art. 40 of the GDPR.

As a data protection and privacy law expert, Gabriela recently testified for the FTC on data portability and for the European Parliament’s LIBE Committee on the EU’s proposed Data Governance Act.

Prior to moving to the US in 2016, she worked for the European Data Protection Supervisor in Brussels, being part of the team that advised the EU legislator on the GDPR during its legislative process. She dealt with both enforcement and policy matters, was a member of the EDPS litigation team appearing before the Court of Justice of the EU, as well as actively participated in the work of the Article 29 Working Party. She worked on the assessments of both the draft EU-US Privacy Shield and the draft EU-US Umbrella Agreement during her time at the EDPS and the Article 29 Working Party.

She previously served as a Program Chair (Law) for the ACM FAccT 2020 and as a member of the Program Advisory Committee for the ICDPPC 2019 Conference in Tirana. She was also a member of the Program Committee of PLSC Europe, CPDP – academic track, ACM – AIES 2020, and the ENISA Annual Privacy Forum. She served as a Project Scientist supporting the IoT Privacy Infrastructure Project within the Institute for Software Research of Carnegie Mellon University (2019 – 2020).

Gabriela holds a PhD in law (2013, University of Craiova) with a thesis on the rights of the data subject from the perspective of their adjudication in civil law and an LLM in Human Rights (2010), after obtaining her law degree at the same university (2009). She is also an associated researcher with the Law, Science, Technology and Society Center at Vrije Universiteit Brussel.

Gabriela is a contributor-author to ‘The EU General Data Protection Regulation – A Commentary‘, edited by C. Kuner, C. Docksey and L.A. Bygrave, Oxford University Press, 2020 (on Articles 13, 14, 15, 21 and 82). She is also the author of the volume ‘Protecția Datelor Personale. Drepturile Persoanei Vizate‘, C.H. Beck, Bucharest, 2015.