Chloe Altieri

Policy Counsel for Youth & Education Privacy, FPF

Chloe Altieri is a Policy Counsel with the Youth and Education Privacy Team. Her work contributes to FPF’s ongoing projects relating to education technology, legal research, and student privacy. Before joining FPF as a fellow, Chloe worked on the Youth and Education team as a Student Contractor.

Chloe graduated from the University of North Carolina School of Law with her Juris Doctor. During her time in law school, Chloe was a member and the Executive Web Editor of the North Carolina Journal of Law and Technology. She also served as the Student Director of UNC Law’s Pro Bono Program and received the North Carolina State Bar’s annual student Pro Bono Service Award in 2021. She spent a semester in UNC Law’s Intellectual Property Clinic and was the Executive Member of the Holderness International Moot Court Jessup competing team. Chloe earned her Bachelor’s Degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with majors in Psychology and Political Science and a minor in History.

Daniel Berrick

Policy Counsel, FPF

Daniel Berrick is a policy counsel at the Future of Privacy Forum. His work involves analyzing complex consumer and commercial privacy law and policy issues, including sector- and technology-specific areas such as immersive technologies, open banking, and biometrics. In this role, Daniel collaborates with industry, peers and the wider privacy community to identify and develop best practices for data privacy. He received his JD from Duke University School of Law (cum laude), and his BA (magna cum laude) from Hamilton College. Daniel obtained CIPP/US and CIPP/E certifications in recognition of his knowledge of U.S. and EU privacy law.

Maura Colleton Corbett

CEO and Founder, Glen Echo Group

Maura Colleton Corbett is the CEO and Founder of the Glen Echo Group where she leads the team’s award-winning work in telling the stories of the companies and organizations building the New Economy. With 30 years of communications, creative, public affairs, and coalition-building experience, Corbett provides strategic counsel to clients faced with the complicated challenges surrounding the shift to a digital, Internet-enabled world, including AI, innovation policy, broadband deployment, emerging technologies, and content-related issues including privacy, cybersecurity, and copyright.

Corbett is a member of the Board of Directors for Public Knowledge, the Chamber of Progress and the GLIA Foundation, and is a frequent speaker and commentator on Internet and technology public policy, coalition building, branding and the media.

‍Corbett was recognized as one of the Washingtonian’s 500 Most Influential in 2023 and 2022, a member of The Information’s “Tech Frontline” in 2020, and was selected as WWPR’s PR Woman of the Year in 2019. She received the PR Week’s 2014 PR Woman of the Year and the 2010 Women in Technology Leadership Award for her demonstration of exemplary leadership skills and exceptional results in community-related work, the first WIT award ever for a woman in the public affairs industry.

Maria Curi

Tech Policy Reporter, Axios

Maria Curi is a tech policy reporter for Axios, covering the intersection of technology and government regulations. With a focus on national issues in the United States, Maria’s work delves into the impact of artificial intelligence, telecom policies, and the evolving landscape of technology in society. Her articles have also been featured in Yahoo Finance, Bloomberg Law, and Bloomberg News.

Rob van Eijk

Managing Director for Europe, FPF

Dr. Rob van Eijk serves as the Future of Privacy Forum’s Managing Director for Europe. In this role, van Eijk implements FPF’s agenda in Europe. He oversees its day-to-day operations. He built and manages a small team in the Brussels office and manages relationships with stakeholders.

Prior to serving in this position, van Eijk worked at the Dutch Data Protection Authority (DPA) as Senior Supervision Officer and (Lead) Technologist for nearly 10 years. He represented the Dutch DPA in international meetings such as the Technology Expert group of the European Data Protection Board (EDPB) and twice as a technical expert in court (ECLI:NL:RBDHA:2016:14088). He also represented all European Data Protection Authorities, assembled as the Article 29 Working Party (WP29), in major multi-stakeholder negotiations concerning digital privacy standards.

His background is rooted in technology: he earned a B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering, an M.Sc. from the Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science and a Ph.D. from Leiden Law School , where he delved into online advertising, how browsers work, and real-time bidding. From 2021 to 2023, van Eijk expanded his horizons as a guest professor at Leiden University, sharing his insights on Explainable AI at the Leiden Centre of Data Science and contributing to the Leiden Legal Technologies Program.

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.

Jordan Francis

Policy Counsel, FPF

Jordan Francis is Policy Counsel for the Future of Privacy Forum. Jordan received his J.D. from the University of Minnesota Law School in 2022, completing the Intellectual Property and Technology Law Concentration. While at Minnesota Law, Jordan cofounded the Privacy, Cybersecurity, and Technology Law Association, a student organization focused on helping students find careers in the field of privacy and data protection. He also served as a managing editor of the Minnesota Law Review, during which time his student note on international data protection was published. Following graduation, Jordan was awarded an IAPP Westin Scholar Award in recognition of his commitment to the field of privacy and data protection.

Prior to joining FPF, Jordan worked as a legal research fellow with the Cordell Institute for Policy in Medicine & Law at Washington University in St. Louis. Through this fellowship, Jordan wrote scholarship, submitted comments on regulatory initiatives, and developed model legislation concerning the intersection of data privacy, digital trust, and loyalty.

Prior to law school, Jordan earned a B.S. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he double-majored in mathematics and economics. In his free time, Jordan is an avid soccer fan, collects vinyl records, and plays Dungeons & Dragons.

Cecilia Kang

National Technology Correspondent, The New York Times

Cecilia Kang is a national technology correspondent for The New York Times. She writes about regulatory issues such as privacy, cybersecurity, antitrust and the digital divide. Cecilia spent one decade at The Washington Post as a senior technology correspondent and began her career in Seoul, South Korea for Dow Jones. She won the George Polk Award, Loeb Award and was a Pulitzer finalist for coverage of Facebook in 2018.

Keir Lamont

Director for U.S. Legislation, FPF

Keir Lamont is the Director of the Future of Privacy Forum’s U.S. Legislation team. In this role he supports research and independent analysis concerning federal, state, and local consumer privacy laws and regulations. Keir previously held positions at the Computer & Communications Industry Association and the Program on Data and Governance at Ohio State University. Keir holds a J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center and a B.A. in Political Science & Economics from the University of Florida.

Aaron Massey

Technologist and Senior Policy Analyst for Advertising Technologies and Platforms, FPF

Dr. Aaron Massey joined FPF in August 2022 as Technologist and Senior Policy Analyst for Advertising Technologies and Platforms. Previously, he was an Assistant Professor of Software Engineering at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC). His academic research focused on computer security, privacy, software engineering, and regulatory compliance in software systems. Aaron is a recipient of the Walter H. Wilkinson Graduate Research Ethics Fellowship and a recipient of a Google Policy Fellowship. Before UMBC, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow at Georgia Tech’s School of Interactive Computing. Aaron earned a PhD and MS in Computer Science from North Carolina State University and a BS in Computer Engineering from Purdue University. He is a member of the ACM, IEEE, IAPP, and the ACM’s US Technology Policy Committee.

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.

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 has led the development of numerous codes of conduct and best practices, assisted in the drafting of data protection legislation and presented expert testimony with agencies and legislatures around the world. He is an IAPP Westin Emeritus Fellow and the 2023 recipient of the IAPP Leadership Award.

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 serves on the Advisory Boards of Open DP | Harvard University Privacy Tools Project, the California Privacy Lab (University of California), and on the George Washington University Law School Privacy and Security Advisory Council. From 2011-2012, Jules served on the Department of Homeland Security Data Privacy and Integrity Advisory Committee. He served on the founding board of the International Association of Privacy Professionals and on the boards of a number of privacy and consumer protection organizations including TRUSTe, the Network Advertising Initiative, and the Center for Copyright Information.

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.

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.

Bailey Sanchez

Senior Counsel for U.S. Legislation, FPF

Bailey Sanchez is Senior Counsel with the Future of Privacy Forum’s U.S. Legislation Team. Bailey leads the team’s work analyzing legislative proposals that impact children and teens’ online privacy and safety. Bailey seeks to understand legislative and regulatory trends at the intersection of youth and technology and provide resources and expertise to stakeholders navigating the youth privacy landscape. Prior to joining FPF, Bailey was a legal extern at the International Association of Privacy Professionals.

Bailey holds a J.D. from the University of New Hampshire School of Law and a B.A. in Political Science from the University of Central Florida. While at UNH Law, she served as a research assistant to Professor Alexandra Roberts, a legal writing teaching assistant to Professors Jennifer Davis and Rachel Goldwasser, president of the Civic Engagement Society, and a student attorney in UNH Law’s Intellectual Property & Transaction Clinic.

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.

Amie Stepanovich

Vice President for U.S. Policy, FPF

Amie Stepanovich is an internationally recognized expert in domestic surveillance, cybersecurity, and privacy law. She is currently the Vice President for U.S. Policy at the Future of Privacy Forum. Stepanovich previously served as the Executive Director for the Silicon Flatirons Center for Law, Technology, and Entrepreneurship at Colorado Law and U.S. Policy Manager and Global Policy Counsel at Access Now in Washington, D.C., where she worked to protect human rights through law and policy involving technologies and their use. Prior to that, she was the Director of the Domestic Surveillance Project at the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC). She has testified in both the U.S. Senate and the House of Representatives, and before the German and Australian Parliaments.

Amie serves as a board member to the Internet Education Foundation and the Security Research Legal Defense Fund, and as an advisory board member to the Electronic Privacy Information Center. In 2014, Stepanovich was named in Forbes Magazine’s 30 Under 30 Leaders in Law and Policy.

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 that hopes to re-shape relationships disrupted by technology, Josh is the Managing Director, Asia-Pacific of the Future of Privacy Forum. In this role, he leads a team furthering FPF’s mission of advancing data protection best practices and the trusted development and use of emerging technologies in the region.

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. Josh was also a Richard Buxbaum International Graduate Fellow and a White & Case Kathryn Aguirre Worth Scholar. An active contributor to Berkeley Law’s student body, Josh served as the LL.M. Editor of the Berkeley Technology Law Journal and co-founded B-LIT, Berkeley’s first legal innovation student organisation.

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.

Jordan Wrigley

Data and Policy Analyst for Health & Wellness, FPF

Jordan Wrigley is Data and Policy Analyst for Health & Wellness at the Future of Privacy Forum and leads education and best practice development around health data privacy. Previously, she was a member of the Center for Research Data and Digital Scholarship at the University of Colorado Boulder and has consulted across the industry health sector on research methods and data practices. Previously, working at Duke Medical Center, Jordan has co-authored scholarly articles on health and health-related topics including systematic and scoping reviews. She combines experience from two advanced degrees in environmental policy and health information science with undergraduate work in international health development.

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 Brussels.