Bertrand du Marais

Commissioner, CNIL

Born on 25 April 1964 in Lyon, Judge Bertrand du MARAIS is a graduate of ESSEC Graduate School of Management and an alumnus of the National Administration School (“Ecole Nationale d’Administration”, “Liberté Egalité Fraternité 1989” graduating class).

Having joined the French Council of State (“Conseil d’Etat”) in 1989, he is State Counselor (“Conseiller d’Etat”) since 2006. In the Advisory branch of Conseil d’Etat, he is currently a member of the Environment and Network Industry Section (Section des Travaux Publics) and deals more specifically with environmental transition, Public Procurement and Energy and Transport.

He has joined CNIL, the French Data Protection Agency, in February 2019 and is more specifically in charge of International Affairs, e-Privacy and Competition Co-regulation. He is a member of the CNIL sanction board.

In parallel to his career as a judge at the French Council of State or as a Senior Civil Servant within French and international administrations, he is the author of articles and books relating to public utility law, market regulation law as well as information and communication technologies, and more generally on interactions between Law and Economics. His textbook “Public Law of economic regulation” (Paris, Presses de Sciences-Poet Dalloz, 2004) has been awarded the Charles Dupin Prize by the French Academy of Social and Political Sciences (Académie des sciences morales et politiques). He chairs the Think Tank FIDES (Forum on the Interaction between Law, Economics and Society www.fides.institute).

Des Hogan

Commissioner, OPC

Des Hogan was appointed as Commissioner for Data Protection and Chairperson of the Irish Data Protection Commission in February 2024. Prior to that he was Assistant Chief State Solicitor in the Office of the Chief State Solicitor in the period 2015-2024. He served as Acting Chief Executive in the Irish Human Rights Commission in 2007 and from 2012 to 2014. He previously worked for the Australian Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission and for Amnesty International in Australia and its International Secretariat in London. A solicitor by profession, Dr Hogan was awarded a Masters in European Law from University College Dublin and a PhD in Philosophy of Law from Trinity College Dublin.

Haksoo Ko

Chairperson, Personal Information Protection Commission (PIPC)

Haksoo Ko was appointed as the new Chair of the Personal Information Protection Commission (PIPC) in October 2022. Before starting this 3-year term, Ko was a professor at Seoul National University School of Law and previously served as Head of the Center for Law and Economics at Seoul National University and the President of the Asian Society of Law and Economy. His research interests include data privacy, artificial intelligence law, and law and economics. Ko received a J.D. and a Ph.D. in economics from Columbia University.

Bianca-Iona Marcu

Deputy Director, Global Privacy, FPF

Bianca-Ioana Marcu is Deputy Director for Global Privacy at the Future of Privacy Forum. As part of the Global Privacy team, her work focuses on growing the footprint of FPF’s global policy and legal research internationally.

Prior to joining FPF, Bianca was the Managing Director of the multidisciplinary Computers, Privacy and Data Protection (CPDP) Conference in Brussels. She led the conference’s programming work, comprised of 90+ panel sessions debating the latest developments in data protection and privacy in the EU and beyond.

As Researcher in Law at the Law, Science, Technology and Society (LSTS) Research Group of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Bianca counselled on the compliance of AI tools for scientific and political research purposes with data protection law.

Prior to making the move from the Netherlands to Brussels in January 2021, Bianca worked as Senior Advocacy and Standards Programmes Coordinator at ESOMAR. She is a certified Data Protection Officer and holds an LLM in International Law and Globalisation from Maastricht University.

Jules Polonetsky

CEO, 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 an adjunct faculty member for the AI Law & Policy Seminar at William & Mary University Law School. He is 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.

David Weinkauf

Senior IT Analyst, OPC

David Weinkauf is a Senior IT Research Analyst at the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada (OPC), where he works in the Technology Analysis Division. He is the author of several OPC publications, including the OPC’s Privacy Tech-Know blogs on synthetic data, algorithmic fairness and homomorphic encryption. He is also the lead rapporteur for the Berlin Group’s soon-to-be-published Working Paper on Large Language Models. David holds degrees in computer science (B.Sc.) and philosophy (Ph.D.) from the University of Toronto and McGill University, respectively.

Miriam Wimmer

Director, ANPD

Dr. Miriam Wimmer is a Director at the Brazilian Data Protection Authority, ANPD. She holds a PhD degree in Communications and Cultural Policy and a Master’s degree in Public Law. She has been a professional civil servant since 2007, with experience in senior positions in different public organizations, such as the national telecommunications regulator, the Ministry of Communications, and the Ministry of Science, Technology, Innovation and Communication. She is also a Professor at the Law School of Instituto Brasiliense de Direito Público – IDP and guest lecturer on digital law and personal data protection at several other educational institutions.

Gabriela Zanfir-Fortuna

Vice President, 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.