Kate Charlet

Head of Global Privacy, Safety, and Security, Google

Kate Charlet leads Google’s Privacy, Safety, and Security Center of Excellence within the Government Affairs and Public Policy (GAPP) team. Her global team of subject matter experts address matters relating to privacy, security, children’s policy, and government access to data.

Kate has spent most of her career at the intersection of technology and public policy. She was previously the inaugural director for Technology & International Affairs at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and spent a decade as a civil servant in the U.S. government, including as the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense (acting) for cyber policy, country director for Afghanistan, and director for strategic planning at the White House National Security Council.

Kate has a Bachelor’s degree in Molecular Biology from Princeton University and a Masters degree in Strategic Studies from Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. She lives in the Washington, DC with her husband and two kids.

John Edwards

Information Commissioner, ICO, UK

Mr Edwards was educated in New Plymouth, New Zealand and achieved a Bachelor of Laws and Masters in Public Policy at the University of Wellington.

He worked as a solicitor and barrister for more than 14 years, including time as a policy adviser to the New Zealand Prime Minister and Cabinet around Freedom of Information.

From February 2014 to December 2021 he was New Zealand Privacy Commissioner. During that time he chaired the International Conference of Data Protection and Privacy Commissioners (now known as the Global Privacy Assembly), and was a member of the OECD’s Informal Group of Experts on Children in the Digital Environment.

Yoochul Kim

Head of Strategy, LG AI Research

Carly Kind

Commissioner, OAIC, Australia

Christopher Kuner

Professor, Copenhagen University

Dr. Christopher Kuner has been active in EU and global data protection law since the 1990s as a lawyer, author, and academic. He was director of the Brussels Privacy Hub and professor of law at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) between 2014 and 2023, and has taught data protection law at the University of Cambridge, the European University Institute in Florence, and the Hague Academy of International Law. He has also been a visiting fellow at Chuo University in Tokyo, and received a medal from the Consumer Affairs Agency of the government of Japan for services to Japanese consumers and the promotion of EU data protection law in Japan. Over the years he has been involved in the work of various international organisations, including the Council of Europe, the OECD, UNCITRAL, and the United Nations. He has also worked for three decades in international law firms in Germany and Brussels, and for ten years was chairman of the Data Protection and Privacy Task Force of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) in Paris, where he successfully negotiated standard contractual clauses for international data transfers that were approved by the European Commission.

Dr. Kuner is currently Senior Privacy Counsel in the Brussels office of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, Affiliate Professor at the Centre for Innovation and Information Law at the University of Copenhagen, and Visiting Fellow at the European Centre on Privacy and Cybersecurity at Maastricht University. He is also a member of the European Commission’s Multisectoral Stakeholder Group on the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

The author of numerous articles and books, Dr. Kuner is founder and editor-in-chief of the law journal International Data Privacy Law, and one of the three principal editors of the commentary on the GDPR published by Oxford University Press. His writings have been cited many times by courts and regulators in the EU, the US, and beyond. He has a JD from Notre Dame Law School and an LLM from NYU Law School in the US, and a PhD in law from Tilburg University in The Netherlands.

Sangchul Park

Associate Professor, Seoul National University

Dominic Paulger

Deputy Director for Asia-Pacific and China, FPF

Dominic is a Deputy Director in the Future of Privacy Forum’s Asia Pacific and China (APAC) office, where he conducts research and analyzes key trends in law, regulation, and policy relating to data protection, privacy, and emerging technologies in APAC and leads FPF’s projects and activities across the region.

Prior to joining FPF, Dominic worked in Amazon Web Services’ Global Public Policy team, where he developed strategic advocacy positions and materials to educate policymakers on a wide range of issues relating to data and the digital economy in Asia. He was also a research assistant for Dr. Clarisse Girot at the Asian Business Law Institute (ABLI), where he contributed to a major publication on legal convergence for cross-border transfers of personal data in Asia: “Transferring Personal Data in Asia: A path to legal certainty and regional convergence.” Dominic earned a J.D. from Singapore Management University and a B.A. from King’s College, London.”

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 has served as an adjunct faculty member for the AI Law & Policy Seminar at William & Mary University Law School. He was also a lecturer in the Privacy Protection Officer course at the Magid Institute, the Faculty of Law and the Federman Center for Cyber ​​Research at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. 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 for Georgetown’s Center on Privacy and Technology, Open DP | Harvard University Privacy Tools Project, the California Privacy Lab (University of California), and 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.

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.

Monika Tomczak-Górlikowska

Chief Privacy Officer, Prosus

Monika Tomczak-Górlikowska is the Global Head of Privacy, Digital & Regulatory for the Prosus Group – a multinational consumer internet group with headquarters in Europe and one of the largest technology investors in the world. Monika also serves as a member of the Board of Directors of the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP). Monika began her career at the Legal Service of the General Secretariat of the Council of the EU in Brussels. She is now based in Amsterdam and previously was the Senior Data Privacy Legal Counsel at Shell International Limited in London. Monika is a licensed attorney (adwokat) with over 25-years in practice. Prior to her in-house tenures she was in private practice, including at the offices of Miller, Canfield in Poland. She holds a Master of European Law degree (LLM cum laude) from the Law Department of the College of Europe in Brugge (Belgium). Monika has also served as Co-Chair of the Steering Committee of the Forum on International Privacy Law and a member of the IAPP European Advisory Board. Monika is also hexalingual: she speaks English, French, Spanish, Italian, Polish and Portuguese fluently.

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, Tel Aviv, 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).

Keynotes

Privacy Preserving Artificial Intelligence Workshop of the 38th Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence Conference, Vancouver, 2024: “Unregulated? Think Again. Unpacking all the meaningful ways in which data privacy law regulates Generative AI” (download presentation)

University of Michigan, 2022 Privacy@Michigan Keynote, “Beyond Privacy: Fairness in How Personal Data is Used in our New Digital World” (watch recording)

World Bank Group Data Privacy Day, 2022, Keynote Panel (watch recording)

IAPP Data Protection Congress, Brussels, 2019, Opening Keynote Panel (readout)

Publications

“Follow the (personal) Data: Positioning Data Protection Law as the Cornerstone of EU’s ‘Fit for the Digital Age’ Legislative Package“, chapter in “Two Decades of Personal Data Protection. What’s Next?”, EDPS Anniversary Volume, 2024 (Open Access)

“The General Data Protection Regulation: A Commentary“, edited by C. Kuner, C. Docksey and L.A. Bygrave, Chapters on Articles 13, 14, 15, 21 and 82 of the GDPR (Oxford University Press, 2020)

“Protectia Datelor Personale. Drepturile Persoanei Vizate“, C.H. Beck, Bucharest, 2014 (Beckshop).

Awards

Stefano Rodota Award, Council of Europe, 2023, for “The Thin Red Line: Refocusing Data Protection Law on Automated-Decision-Making“, together with co-authors.

Finalist of the Danilo Doneda Award, Brazil, 2022, for “”The Thin Red Line: Refocusing Data Protection Law on Automated-Decision-Making“, together with co-authors.

Junior Scholar Award, CPDP 2013, for “Tracing the Right to Be Forgotten in the Short History of Data Protection Law: The New Clothes of an Old Right“