Anita L. Allen

Board Member, FPF

Anita L. Allen is the Henry R. Silverman Professor of Law and Professor of Philosophy. A graduate of Harvard Law School with a PhD from the University of Michigan in Philosophy, Allen is internationally renown as an expert on philosophical dimensions of privacy and data protection law, ethics, bioethics, legal philosophy, women’s rights, and diversity in higher education. She was Penn’s Vice Provost for Faculty from 2013-2020, and chaired the Provost’s Arts Advisory Council.

Allen is an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine, the American Law Institute and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. From 2010 to 2017, Allen served on President Obama’s Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues.

She was presented the Lifetime Achievement Award of the Electronic Privacy Information Center in 2015, and chaired its Board, 2019-2022. Professor Allen is a member of the Pennsylvania and New York bars, and formerly taught at Georgetown University Law Center and the University of Pittsburgh.

JoAnne Breese-Jaeck

Vice President and Chief Privacy Officer, Northwestern Mutual

Bio Forthcoming

Amanda Browe

Vice President for Membership, FPF

Amanda Browe serves as the Vice President for Membership at the Future of Privacy Forum. Amanda brings over 10 years of nonprofit experience, with a focus on membership and operations. Prior to joining FPF, Amanda worked in association management providing membership and operations oversight to various healthcare member associations. She holds a M.A. in Museum Studies from The George Washington University and a B.A. in History from the University of Michigan.

Lorrie Faith Cranor

Director and Bosch Distinguished Professor, Carnegie Mellon University

Lorrie Faith Cranor is Director and Bosch Distinguished Professor in Security and Privacy Technologies of CyLab and FORE Systems University Professor of Computer Science and of Engineering and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University. She directs the CyLab Usable Privacy and Security Laboratory (CUPS) and co-directs the Privacy Engineering program. In 2016 she served as Chief Technologist at the US Federal Trade Commission. She co-founded Wombat Security, a security awareness training company acquired by Proofpoint. She founded the Symposium On Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS) and co-founded the Conference on Privacy Engineering Practice and Respect (PEPR). She serves on the Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT) Board of Directors, the Aspen Institute Cybersecurity Group, the Future of Privacy Forum (FPF) advisory board, and the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) advisory board. In 2003 she was honored as one of the top 100 innovators 35 or younger by Technology Review. She was elected to the ACM CHI Academy and named a fellow of ACM, IEEE, and AAAS. She received the ACM CHI Social Impact Award and Lifetime Research Award, the International Association of Privacy Professionals Privacy Leadership Award, and (with colleagues) the IEEE Cybersecurity Award for Practice. She was previously a researcher at AT&T-Labs Research. She holds a doctorate in Engineering and Policy from Washington University in St. Louis. She has authored or edited several books, including a privacy book for kids. She plays soccer, walks to work, sews her own clothing with pockets, and tries not to embarrass her three young adult children.

Christopher Diaz

VP, Associate General Counsel, Privacy & AI, Medidata Solutions, Inc.

Chris currently serves as Associate General Counsel, Privacy & AI at Medidata Solutions, Inc., a leading mission-driven life sciences platform transforming clinical development through data-driven AI. He manages the Privacy & AI legal team, which advises both internal and external stakeholders on a full range of complex data privacy, AI governance, and digital trust issues.

Working closely with security and R&D teams, Chris plays a leading role in implementing AI governance frameworks that balance innovation with accountability, positioning Medidata as a responsible leader in the deployment of AI within clinical research. With deep expertise in the AI development lifecycle, he brings practical experience navigating complex ethical and legal challenges — including negotiating AI terms with sophisticated trial sponsors and managing complex data usage rights — to help ensure Medidata and its clients can harness AI to improve patient outcomes, accelerate clinical breakthroughs, and bring therapies to market faster.

Chris brings two decades of practical, multi-disciplinary legal experience to his work. He began his legal career at Ropes & Gray LLP and holds a J.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. He remains actively involved in the IAPP, the Future of Privacy Forum (FPF), and the Association of Clinical Research Organizations (ACRO). He is admitted to practice in California and New York, holding CIPP/US and CIPM certifications from the IAPP.

Hershel Eisenberger

Head of Global Privacy and Data Protection, The Coca-Cola Company

Hershel S. Eisenberger is a seasoned global privacy, cybersecurity, and AI attorney currently serving as the Head of Global Privacy and Data Protection at The Coca-Cola Company. Previously, Hershel held various roles in the United States Department of Defense, providing strategic legal counsel on military personnel policy and legislative matters. Hershel also contributed to Human Rights Watch as Consulting Counsel and served in policy advisory capacities at Lyft and Facebook.

Katherine Fick

Associate General Counsel, IBM

Katherine Fick 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.

Fick 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. As an Adjunct Professor at Boston College Law School, she co-teaches a course on cybersecurity law and policy.

Previously, Fick served on the board 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.

Fick is a graduate of Calvin College and the University of Chicago Law School.

Jordan Francis

Senior Policy Counsel, FPF

Jordan Francis is Senior Policy Counsel for the Future of Privacy Forum (FPF). As a member of FPF’s U.S. Legislation team, Jordan supports supports expert, independent analysis of federal, state, and local consumer privacy legislation and regulation. 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. Jordan received his J.D. from the University of Minnesota Law School and his B.S. in Mathematics and Economics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Justine Gluck

Policy Analyst, AI Policy and Legislation, FPF

Justine Gluck is a Policy Analyst, AI Policy and Legislation at the Future of Privacy Forum. Previously, she conducted research on semiconductor policy and workforce development at Harvard University’s Belfer Center and the Micro Nano Technology Education Center. Earlier in her career, Justine served as a legislative aide in the California Legislature, drafting and advancing legislation on privacy, AI, and higher education. She holds an M.A. in International Relations with a specialization in Technology and International Affairs from the Fletcher School at Tufts University and a B.A. in Politics and History from Pomona College.

Stacey Gray

Senior Director for Artificial Intelligence , FPF

Stacey Gray is the Senior Director for Artificial Intelligence at the Future of Privacy Forum (FPF) and supports FPF’s U.S. engagement for consumer privacy research, analysis, and policymaker education. At FPF, she has spent many years focusing on the privacy implications of data collection in online and mobile advertising, platform regulation, cross-device tracking, Smart Homes, and the Internet of Things, including publishing extensive work and providing Congressional testimony on the intersection of emerging technologies and federal privacy regulation and enforcement. Stacey graduated from the University of Florida in 2010, and cum laude from Georgetown University Law Center in 2015, during which she worked in privacy-related civil rights litigation as a law clerk for Victor M. Glasberg & Associates, and as a member of the civil rights division of the Institute for Public Representation.

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Daniel Hales

Policy Counsel for U.S. Legislation, FPF

Daniel Hales is Policy Counsel with the U.S. Legislation Team. His work contributes to FPF’s ongoing projects relating to education technology, legal research, legislative analysis, and student & youth privacy.

Prior to joining FPF, Daniel worked as a privacy analyst at a leadership development and human resources consulting firm where he contributed to a cross-functional team tasked with operationalizing privacy practices across the organization. Before getting into the privacy industry, Daniel worked as a legislative aide for a representative in the Virginia House of Delegates.

Daniel earned his Juris Doctor from the University of Richmond School of Law where he focused on Compliance, Privacy Law, and Technology Regulation. During his J.D. program, Daniel was awarded the CALI Excellence for the Future Award in Information Privacy Law. Daniel earned his Bachelor’s Degree in Political Science from Virginia Commonwealth University.

Holly Hawkins

Director for Youth Policy, FPF

Holly Hawkins is Director for Youth Policy at the Future of Privacy Forum (FPF), where she leads youth policy and governance initiatives addressing issues including age assurance, personalization, chatbots, online safety, and youth well-being.

Prior to FPF, Holly was Principal Policy Manager for Global Advertising Policy at Amazon, where she oversaw the full lifecycle of advertising policies, including those affecting children and teens.

Earlier, she served as Director of Global Safety Programs at Meta, where she developed and led large-scale safety initiatives, including Meta’s digital citizenship and well-being program, Get Digital.

Holly also brings significant nonprofit leadership experience. She served as President and CEO of the Internet Keep Safe Coalition (iKeepSafe), a COPPA Safe Harbor program, where she led the iKeepSafe Privacy Certification program supporting online service platforms in complying with federal and state privacy laws.

Previously, she was Vice President for Programs and Outreach at the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, providing strategic leadership for prevention education and national awareness initiatives. Earlier in her career, she served as Director of Global Consumer Policy and Child Safety at AOL, leading international policy development and proactive child safety efforts.

Mark Jaffe

Chief Ethics, Compliance, and Privacy Officer, Rivian

Mark Jaffe leads the Rivian ethics, compliance and privacy program which includes ethical
culture, compliance oversight, privacy, and investigations. He leads a team of 16 people which includes privacy professionals, lawyers, compliance professionals, and investigators responsible for developing and implementing Rivian’s ethics, compliance and privacy programs and to investigate allegations of employee wrongdoing. Mark and his team work on issues related to privacy, information governance, cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, and data ethics.

Prior to joining Rivian, Mark was Senior Vice President for Privacy at Teleperformance, a global business process outsourcer with over 400,000 employees operating in over 80 countries. At Teleperformance, he was responsible for a team of privacy professionals building and scaling a global privacy program. While at Teleperformance, Mark spent almost two years in Singapore managing privacy issues in the Asia Pacific region. During his time at Teleperformance, he also managed privacy issues in the Americas and Europe, Middle East, and Africa and was asked to begin creating a compliance program prior to leaving the company in late 2020.

Prior to joining Teleperformance, Mark spent 17 years at AT&T in global privacy roles as well as global compliance and ethics roles.

He is a frequent speaker on a variety of topics related to privacy and ethics and compliance.
Mark earned his B.A., cum laude, from Duke University and his J.D., cum laude, from
Northwestern University.

Sabrina Khandwalla

VP, Associate General Counsel, Global Privacy, AI, Data and Cybersecurity, Visa

Bio Forthcoming

Bianca-Ioana Marcu

Managing Director for Europe, FPF

Bianca-Ioana Marcu is the Managing Director for Europe at the Future of Privacy Forum (FPF), where she advances thought leadership on data protection, privacy, and AI regulation from a global perspective. Leading a team of legal and policy experts in Brussels, Bianca’s work at FPF focuses on finding pathways for continued cooperation and dialogue on digital regulation, ensuring that strong respect for fundamental rights coexists alongside technology development.

Prior to joining FPF, Bianca was the Managing Director of the Computers, Privacy and Data Protection (CPDP) Conference, served as co-Director of the Belgian NGO Privacy Salon, as well as a Researcher in Law at the LSTS Research Group of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. With an LLM in International Law, Globalisation and Human Rights from Maastricht University, Bianca’s research and publications have previously focused on Data Protection as the Last Line of Defence (Springer Nature), the legal challenges of Biometrics, Facial Recognition and the Fundamental Rights of Minors (European Law Blog), and on AI regulation from the perspective of international law (FPF).

In addition to managing the Europe office, Bianca also coordinates FPF’s presence in Africa by centering African-led expertise, fostering inclusive collaboration, and advancing the global digital regulatory dialogue by connecting local priorities with global developments. Bianca also held roles in advocacy, with a focus on gender justice, and holds a Data Protection Officer (DPO) certification from the European Centre on Privacy and Cybersecurity.

Lee Matheson

Deputy Director for Global Privacy, FPF

Lee Matheson, CIPP/US/E/A, CIPM, FIP,  is a Deputy Director for Global Privacy with the Future of Privacy Forum Global Privacy team. Lee monitors and analyzes privacy developments throughout the world, with a particular focus on comparing the approaches of different global jurisdictions with regard to core privacy issues, including the regulation of individual privacy rights, de-identification, ad and cookie technology, AI/ML, and international data transfers.

Before coming to the FPF, Lee was a member of the Privacy & Cybersecurity Group at Crowell & Moring, LLP, where he advised clients on U.S. and international privacy, security, and data transfer compliance. Lee was also a 2017-2018 Westin Research Fellow with the IAPP.

Lee is a graduate of Denison University and The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law.

Bruce Mehlman

Founding Partner, Mehlman Consulting

Bruce Mehlman leads the bipartisan firm he founded after serving at senior levels in politics, policy and business. Mehlman Consulting helps Fortune 500 companies and innovative startups understand, anticipate and navigate the ever-evolving policy environment and trends likely to impact the global marketplace.

A highly sought-after public speaker, Mehlman frequently presents to Boards of Directors, global conferences and strategic planning sessions. His “Age of Disruption” Sunday Substack reaches tens of thousands of readers across business, government, NGOs and global investment firms each week.

Mehlman’s “famous” infographics on political trends are frequently covered in leading publications, including the Washington Post, Axios, Politico, CNN, Bloomberg, and Fox News. He has lectured on “winning business–government relations” at the Harvard Kennedy School, Yale School of Management and Georgetown University, among others.

Mehlman previously held the post of Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Technology Policy, having been nominated by President George W. Bush and confirmed by the U.S. Senate in 2001. Before Commerce, he worked at Cisco Systems, the House of Representatives, and at a Washington law firm.

Mehlman is widely regarded as an expert in running issue campaigns, managing C-suite associations and developing strategies that achieve impactful policy outcomes. He also serves as Executive Director of the Technology CEO Council.

Doug Miller

Senior Fellow, FPF

Doug Miller is a privacy leader and certified executive coach. His coaching practice, Doug Miller Strategies, LLC, helps privacy executives and professionals adapt to rapid change and attain greater effectiveness and fulfillment. As Senior Fellow for FPF he leverages long experience with privacy and advertising practices. Doug served as Vice President and Global Privacy Leader at AOL for many years and led the privacy team for the combined entity of AOL and Yahoo when those companies merged. He was the company’s “voice of privacy” as Vice President, Global Privacy and Trust on Yahoo’s Public Policy team. He served on the board of directors of the Network Advertising Initiative, including eight years as Board Chair. Most recently he led a Global Privacy Operations team in the Amazon Ads privacy organization.

Nuala O'Connor

Board Member, FPF

At the intersection of technology, ethics, and human dignity, Nuala O’Connor is a pioneering leader who has shaped the landscape of digital rights and responsible innovation across the public and private sectors. O’Connor’s career embodies a consistent vision: that technology can be a force for good.

As the first Chief Privacy Officer of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), she established foundational frameworks for protecting individual privacy in an era of unprecedented national security challenges. Her leadership as CEO of the Center for Democracy and Technology transformed public discourse around digital civil liberties, while her roles at Walmart, Amazon, GE, and DoubleClick demonstrated how corporate innovation can align with and be strengthened by ethical technology practices.

At Walmart, Nuala built and led the company’s Digital Citizenship organization, guiding one of the world’s largest companies through the complexities of AI, biometrics, cybersecurity, data privacy and data governance, and digital transformation. Through the design and implementation of corporate programs on digital identity, ethical use of emerging technologies, and data and information management, she orchestrated a global strategy that accelerated innovation while honoring corporate values and human dignity. She was described by senior leadership as the “conscience of the company” on technology implementation.

Before joining Walmart, Nuala served as President and CEO of the Center for Democracy and Technology, an advocacy organization and think tank engaged in digital civil liberties and rights. In the public sector, in addition to her service at DHS, she served as Deputy Director of the Office of Policy and Strategic Planning and as Chief Counsel for Technology at the U.S. Department of Commerce. In the private sector, Nuala served in a variety of leadership and legal counsel roles at Amazon, GE, and DoubleClick. She has testified on multiple occasions in front of the U.S. Congress, the European Parliament, and the European Commission. Nuala has served on several public commissions and numerous nonprofit boards, and is currently on the advisory board of Kekst CNC, an international strategy and communications advisory firm, and is a senior advisor to the policy organization EqualAI. She is a life member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

Nuala, who is originally from Belfast, Northern Ireland, holds a B.A. from Princeton University, an M.Ed. from Harvard University, and a J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center.

Harriet Pearson

Board Member, FPF

For more than 30 years, Harriet Pearson has done pioneering work at the intersection of IT, business, and law. Though her consultancy Axia Advisory, she now provides clients with digital governance solutions such as board training, cybersecurity breach readiness, regulatory strategies, and business development and communications coaching.

Until June 2024 Harriet was Executive Deputy Superintendent and head of the Cybersecurity Division at the New York Department of Financial Services. She played a key role in updating DFS’s nation-leading cybersecurity regulation and built and deployed a comprehensive set of resources to help businesses comply with the new requirements.

Previously Harriet was a Partner at Hogan Lovells where she founded and led the global cybersecurity practice for a decade starting in 2012 before transitioning to Senior Counsel in 2021. Among her representations were high-profile and high-stakes matters involving crisis management, investigations, and regulatory enforcement in the aftermath of high-profile cyberattacks. She also served as the firm’s global Innovation and New Ventures Partner.

She joined Hogan Lovells from IBM where she served as the company’s first VP-Assistant General Counsel for Cybersecurity and Chief Privacy Officer. During her 19-year career at IBM she held other executive roles spanning legal/compliance, human resources, and public affairs. Harriet led large multi-disciplinary teams and represented the company externally to Congress, the White House, regulators, the media, advocacy organizations, and business leaders nationally and internationally.

Pearson has received numerous recognitions for her pioneering work in cybersecurity and data privacy law and policy, including North America “Legal Innovator of the Year” and Global Top 20 Practitioners in 20 Years from the Financial Times, “Cybersecurity and Data Privacy Trailblazer” from National Law Journal, “Woman of Influence” from Executive Women’s Forum, “Vanguard Award” from International Association of Privacy Professionals, and “Senior Statesperson” and “Band 1” in US Privacy and Data Security by Chambers & Partners.

Harriet graduated with honors from Princeton University and UCLA School of Law (Order of the Coif) and completed executive leadership training courses at Harvard Business School and Saïd Business School of Oxford University. She has taught as an Adjunct Lecturer at both the UCLA School of Law and Georgetown University. She is a member of the bar in New York and the District of Columbia. She currently serves on the Advisory Board of the Technology, Law and Security Program at American University Washington College of Law and has served on numerous advisory boards including for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Electronic Privacy Information Center, and the Georgetown Cybersecurity Law Institute which she co-founded in 2012 and co-chaired for six years. She helped found, and for a decade served on the board of directors of, the International Association of Privacy Professionals and previously served on the boards of several non-profit organizations providing educational and social services.

Mark Pike

Associate General Counsel, Anthropic

Bio Forthcoming

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.

Ken Priore

Senior Director & Deputy General Counsel, DocuSign

Ken Priore is Deputy General Counsel at Docusign, where he leads legal for the Product, Engineering, IP, and Partner organizations, with a focus on AI governance, agentic AI, and responsible innovation. He brings 30 years of experience across financial services, venture capital, consumer mobile, and enterprise SaaS, and previously held roles at Atlassian and Box.

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. He currently serves as Principal of Raul Consulting Company. For 25 years, Raul was the leader of Sidley Austin LLP’s highly-ranked Privacy and Cybersecurity Law practice and was Senior Counsel. 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.

Matthew Reisman

Vice President for U.S. Policy, FPF

Matthew Reisman is Vice President for U.S. Policy at the Future of Privacy Forum (FPF), a global nonprofit organization that serves as a catalyst for privacy leadership and scholarship, advancing principled data practices in support of emerging technologies. Matthew oversees FPF’s U.S. policy work, including legislative and regulatory engagement, research, and initiatives addressing emerging data protection, AI, and technology challenges. He will also lead FPF’s experts across youth privacy, data governance, health, and other portfolios to advance key FPF projects and priorities.

Prior to joining FPF, Matthew served as a Director of Privacy and Data Policy at the Centre for Information Policy Leadership (CIPL), where he led research, public engagement, and programming on topics including accountable development and deployment of artificial intelligence (AI), privacy and data protection policy, cross-border data flows, organizational governance of data, and privacy-enhancing technologies (PETs).

Matthew holds a Master of Public Policy from the Harvard Kennedy School and undergraduate degree from Duke University.

Tatiana Rice

Senior Director for U.S. Legislation, FPF

Tatiana Rice is the Senior Director for U.S. Legislation, where she helps lawmakers, industry leaders, and civil society navigate the evolving landscape of AI regulation and policy. She leads FPF’s strategic legislative and regulatory engagement at the state and federal levels, providing expert analysis, research, and guidance to support informed decision-making on AI policy and governance.

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.

Rob Sherman

Vice President, Policy & Deputy Chief Privacy Officer, Meta

Rob Sherman is Vice President and Deputy Chief Privacy Officer for Policy at Meta. Since joining the company, then called Facebook, in 2012, Rob and his team have worked closely with privacy and policy experts inside and outside the company, along with product, engineering, research, and other teams, to protect people’s privacy across the company’s suite of products and technology. Rob has worked to develop approaches within the company and in public policy to promote the responsible development of new technologies like artificial intelligence and virtual and augmented reality. Prior to joining the company, Rob advised technology and media companies as a lawyer at Covington & Burling LLP. He earned his law degree at the University of Michigan Law School and a B.S. in Human-Computer Interaction at the University of Maryland. Rob lives with his wife and two daughters outside Washington, D.C.

Jameson Spivack

Deputy Director for Artificial Intelligence, FPF

Jameson Spivack is Deputy Director for Artificial Intelligence at the Future of Privacy Forum, where he focuses on AI governance issues, particularly in the context of privacy and data protection. His work also covers algorithmic/personalized pricing, biometrics, and immersive technologies like neurotechnologies and AR/VR. 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 justice system. Jameson received his M.A. from Georgetown University’s Communication, Culture & Technology program, focusing on tech policy, and his B.A. in Government & Politics from the University of Maryland.

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.

Jordan Wrigley

Senior Technologist, FPF

Jordan Wrigley (MSLS, MA) is a Senior Technologist at the Future of Privacy Forum (FPF), where she leads FPF’s work on health and wellness data privacy. She drives initiatives around education, best practices, and policy development to ensure privacy protections are integrated across health data uses, from clinical research to consumer health technologies. Jordan brings​ a rich background in regional planning for health, medical informatics, information science, and international economic development. Her expertise and many publications are grounded in evidence-based medicine, meta-analytic research methods, and health data governance.

Jordan has published extensively on the ethics and regulation of health data, contributing both to academic literature and industry standards. Prior to joining FPF, she consulted across the health sector, advising on research practices, data ethics, and regulatory frameworks.

Gabriela Zanfir-Fortuna

Vice President for Global Privacy, FPF

Dr. Gabriela Zanfir-Fortuna is a globally recognized data protection law expert, with 15 years of experience in the field split between Europe and the U.S., spanning academia, public service, consulting and policy. She currently is Vice President for Global Privacy at the Future of Privacy Forum, a global non-profit headquartered in Washington DC, coordinating FPF’s offices and partners in Brussels, Singapore, Nairobi, and New Delhi, and leading the work on global privacy and data protection developments related to new technologies, including AI. She is also a founding Advisory Board Member of Women in AI Governance, and an affiliated researcher to the LSTS Center of Vrije Universiteit Brussel.

Dr. Zanfir-Fortuna worked for the European Data Protection Supervisor and is a member of the Reference Panel of the Global Privacy Assembly – the international organization reuniting data protection authorities around the world, as well as a member of the T20 engagement group of the G20 under Brazil’s Presidency in 2024.

She was elected to be part of the Executive Committee of ACM’s Fairness, Accountability and Transparency (FaccT) Conference (2021-2022). Her scholarship on the GDPR is referenced by the Court of Justice of the EU, and in 2023 she won the Stefano Rodota Award of the Council of Europe for the paper “The Thin Red Line: Refocusing Data Protection Law on Automated-Decision-Making“, alongside her co-authors. Dr. Zanfir-Fortuna holds a PhD in Law with a thesis on the rights of the data subject under EU Data Protection Law, and an LLM in Human Rights (University of Craiova).