The Future of Privacy Forum (FPF) invites privacy scholars and authors with an interest in privacy issues to nominate finished papers for consideration for FPF’s annual Privacy Papers for Policymakers Award.
Submissions Open: Annual Privacy Papers for Policymakers Award
Submissions are open for FPF’s Privacy Papers for Policymakers (PPPM) Award. The award recognizes leading privacy scholarship relevant to policymakers in the U.S. Congress, U.S. federal agencies, and data protection authorities.
The Privacy Papers for Policymakers Award allows privacy and data protection scholars, researchers, and authors to inject their ideas into the current policy discussion. It highlights important work that analyzes current and emerging privacy issues and proposes achievable short-term solutions or new means of analysis that could lead to real-world policy solutions. The submitted papers are reviewed and selected by a diverse team of FPF staff.
Award Events and Opportunities
FPF will invite winning papers to present their work at a virtual event in 2026 with top policymakers and privacy leaders.
FPF will publish summaries of all the winning papers on the FPF website. All winners are also highlighted during the event and in a press release to the media.
The 16th Privacy Papers for Policymakers call for submissions is now open until October 30, 2025.
Submission Requirements
- Papers must be focused on privacy or AI governance, with an emphasis on data protection, and applicable to policymakers working in privacy and data protection. International papers covering topics from any region of the world are welcome.
- Papers must have been completed, accepted, scheduled for publication, or published in the last 12 months.
- Papers must be submitted in English.
- Full paper (pdf, .doc, or .docx) or link to a publicly available download (e.g. SSRN).
- 1-page Executive Summary or Abstract (pdf, .doc, or .docx)
- For each Author: name; email; phone number; mailing address; and full job title or affiliation
- Note: authors of selected papers will be asked for a headshot and 75-250 word biography.
- We welcome academic papers, book or book chapters, empirical research, or other longer-form analysis.
- Authors are encouraged to submit their own work, and/or may be nominated by others. There is no limit to the number of nominations.
How to Apply
- If you are submitting your own work please use this form to complete your submission on or before October 30, 2025.
- If you are submitting the work of another person please use this form to complete your submission on or before October 30, 2025.
The Review Process
- Submissions are evaluated based on: (1) Originality; (2) Applicability to policymaking; and (3) Overall quality of writing.
- A panel of FPF judges will select winners to receive Future of Privacy Forum’s 16th Annual Privacy Papers for Policymakers.
The PPPM Student Paper Award
FPF is pleased to offer a paper award to students in undergraduate, graduate, and professional programs. Student submissions must follow the same guidelines as the general PPPM award and can be submitted through the above submission links where you will need to indicate that the author is a student. The deadline for student submissions is October 30, 2025.
We encourage you to share this opportunity with your peers and colleagues. If you have any questions please contact us at [email protected].