Speaker Bios - International Association of Privacy Professionals

Speaker BiosReijo AarnioOmbudsman of the Finnish Data Protection AuthorityNoemi Alonso Calvo, CIPP/EPrivacy Compliance Manager EMEAJohnson & JohnsonNoemí joined Johnson & Johnson as Privacy Manager EMEA in September2011. Previously, she has worked in different British law firms as aregulatory, IT and data protection lawyer for over 10 years, during which shehas acquired a wide experience in the different fields of Public Law, includingurban planning, telecommunications, audiovisual services, environment,gaming, e-commerce, IP, data protection, electronic communications andnew technologies. She also has experience in administrative, sanctioning andcontentious-administrative procedures. She has a Law Degree and Master’sfrom the University of Navarra, and a Superior Program onTelecommunications Law from Instituto de Empresa.Vivienne ArtzManaging Director, IP and O&T Law GroupCitigroup Inc.Vivienne Artz is a Managing Director and Head of International for the IP andO&T Law Group at Citigroup. Citigroup is a global diversified financialservices holding company whose businesses provide consumers,corporations, governments and institutions with a broad range of financialservices and products. Citi has approximately 200 million customer accountsand does business in more than 140 countries. Vivienne’s role includesresponsibility for all legal aspects of intellectual property, technology, dataprivacy and data security, electronic trading and order routing, and marketdata issues, across all businesses in the EMEA and APAC regions. Viviennechairs the AFME Data Protection Working Group and is an active participanton the E-Commerce Group and the Data Protection Groups at the BBA andCBI, as well as a Committee member for the Technology Discussion Group.

Chris AylesChief Technology Officer, Emerging MarketsRSA Insurance GroupChris is responsible for IT Strategy, Architecture and Compliance acrossRSA’s 20+ Emerging Markets countries. Prior to his current role Chris hasworked in eBusiness, Technology Architecture, Project Management, BusinessAnalysis and Service Management. Before starting his career he completed aBSc(Hons) Computer Science Degree at Oxford Brookes University. Chrislives north of London in the UK with his wife and eight week old baby. Youcan connect with Chris on Linkedin.Ulrich BaumgartnerPartnerOsborne ClarkeUlrich is a German qualified partner at Osborne Clarke’s Munich office and amember of the Digital Business sector team. Ulrich has a strong focus onGerman and EU data protection law. Since almost ten years he is the trustedadvisor of various international clients for their data privacy matters. Also,he has long-standing experience in dealing with German and European dataprotection authorities. Ulrich is a regular speaker at a number of privacyconferences and provides training in data protection law matters for inhousecounsel and other legal professionals. He is an active member of a numberof data privacy bodies, including the IAPP.Ben BeesonPartnerLockton CompaniesBen Beeson is a Partner and leads the Global Technology and Privacy Practiceat Lockton. After graduating twenty years ago with a modern languagesdegree from Durham University Ben is now known as one of the leadingexperts on technology and privacy risks in both the United States and Londoncommercial insurance markets. Ben joined Lockton in 2007 from Marsh andMcLennan Companies where he ran the Technology Risks team in SanFrancisco.Bellamy, CIPP/E, LLMDirector of Data PrivacyAccentureBellamy is the director of data privacy at Accenture, heading a global team ofseven privacy professionals. She has overall responsibility for Accenture’sdata privacy strategy and compliance programs worldwide, in respect ofinternal operations and the company’s technology, outsourcing andconsulting services. Bellamy is the vice chairman of the Board of Directors ofthe International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP), sits on theAdvisory Board of the International Data Privacy Law Journal and participatesin many industry groups. Bellamy has a Master's degree from the EuropeanUniversity Institute, Florence, Italy, a law degree from Belgrade University,Yugoslavia, and a Diploma of Advanced European Legal Studies from theCollege of Europe, Bruges, Belgium.

Seth BermanExecutive Managing DirectorStroz Friedberg LLCStroz Friedberg’s Executive Managing Director Seth P. Berman oversees thefirm’s offices in London, and Boston, MA, where he supervises digitalforensics, cybercrime investigations, and electronic discovery assignments incriminal, civil, regulatory, and internal corporate matters. He has extensiveexperience dealing with cross-border electronic discovery projects includingcases invoking European Union data protection laws and national banksecrecy regulations. He also oversees computer investigations involving databreaches, securities fraud, identity theft, employee misconduct, ForeignCorrupt Practices Act (FCPA) violations, and theft of trade secrets. Mr.Berman was previously an Assistant US Attorney in the Criminal Division ofthe US Attorney’s Office for the District of Massachusetts.Ruth BoardmanPartnerBird & BirdRuth Boardman jointly heads Bird & Bird’s International Privacy and DataProtection Group. She advises on data privacy, freedom of information,database rights and other information law issues. Ruth also advises oninformation technology law, e-commerce and on public procurement law. Sheis rated by Chambers & Partners as a leading individual on data protection,who is “pragmatic and efficient and [who] looks at the big picture”. Bird &Bird’s International Data Privacy Practice is listed as a leading firm byChambers & Partners UK. Ruth co-wrote Data Protection Strategy (Sweet &Maxwell), edits the Encyclopedia of Data Protection (Sweet & Maxwell), is onthe editorial board of journal Data Protection Law & Policy and is a contributorto DataGuidance.Marie-Hélène BoulangerHead of the Data Protection UnitEuropean CommissionMarie-Hélène Boulanger started her career working 6 years in the field ofdata protection with Professor Poullet at the University of Namur. She thenjoined the Belgian Data Protection Authority where she spent more than 5years, for 2 years of which she was the secretary of this authority. Shesubsequently joined Directorate-General Internal Market of the EuropeanCommission as a national expert with the data protection unit. Following that,she transferred to the unit responsible for large scale IT systems, where shehas been responsible for the legal team of the unit and also specialised in thepolicy aspects of the Schengen Information System. Since September 2009she is the Head of Unit of the data protection unit.

John BowmanHead of EU and International Data Protection Policy, Law and Rights, JusticePolicy GroupMinistry of JusticeJohn Bowman was appointed Head of EU and International Data ProtectionPolicy at the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) in November 2011. He will oversee UKnegotiations on the new European Commission data protection proposals inBrussels. Recent policy areas that Bowman has led on include an internalreview of Claims Management Regulation and engagement with Muslimcommunities on raising awareness of domestic matrimonial law. Healso headed the UK delegation to the 2011 Special Commission on thepractical application of Hague Conventions on international childabduction. He holds a degree in American Studies from the University ofEssex.Brad BryantEMEA Privacy CounselAon LimitedEmma ButlerSenior Policy OfficerInformation Commissioner's Office (UK)Kasey Chappelle, CIPP/USGlobal Privacy CounselVodafone Group Services LimitedKasey Chappelle is global privacy counsel for Vodafone Group, advising on thelegal issues surrounding privacy and security for Vodafone’s global productsand services. She facilitates a practice group of Vodafone employees withprivacy and security legal, regulatory and policy responsibilities around theworld. Her background is in consumer privacy and regulatory law, withprevious experience as eBay’s global privacy director, where she handledconsumer privacy issues for eBay’s e-commerce, financial and online servicesplatforms around the world. She started her legal career as an associate intelecommunications, technology and privacy law at Willkie Farr and Gallagherin Washington, DC.

Brian ChaseGeneral CounselFoursquareBrian Chase is general counsel for Foursquare Labs, Inc., a leading locationbasedsocial networking service that makes cities easier to use and moreinteresting to explore. Prior to Foursquare, Brian was an attorney atGunderson, Dettmer, Stough, Villeneuve, Franklin & Hachigian, LLP where herepresented a broad range of companies in the areas of corporate partnering,intellectual property and technology protection, privacy, advertising, andcommercialization of intellectual property and technology assets. Brian is agraduate of the University of Utah and Boston University School of Law, CumLaude. Brian serves as a member of the Future of Privacy Forum’s AdvisoryBoard.Stephen DeadmanGroup Privacy Officer and Head of Legal - Privacy, Security & ContentStandardsVodafone GroupAlfredo Della Monica, CIPP/ECounsel - Data Protection EMEA, General Counsel's OfficeAmerican ExpressOliver DrafData Protection OfficerAllianz SECaitlin Fennessy, CIPP/USBusiness and Industry AnalystInternational Trade AdministrationCaitlin Fennessy is a business and industry analyst with the Office ofTechnology and E-Commerce at the U.S. International Trade Administration(ITA), where she focuses on international privacy policy and transborder dataflow issues as they impact trade. Caitlin leads ITA’s work on European andLatin American privacy issues and is the co-director of the Safe Harborprogram administered by ITA. Caitlin serves as a member of the U.S.delegation to the OECD Working Party on Information Security and Privacy(WPISP) and the OECD Privacy Volunteer Group. She also participates in theprivacy policy work of Department of Commerce Internet Policy Task Forceand the National Science and Technology Subcommittee on CommercialPrivacy. Prior to joining ITA, Caitlin worked in the National Security Divisionof the Office of Management and Budget and with the U.S. Senate ForeignRelations Committee. Caitlin has a master’s degree in public affairs fromPrinceton University and a bachelor’s degree in social policy fromNorthwestern University.Jane Finlayson-BrownPartnerAllen & Overy, LLP

Sue GoldExecutive CounselThe Walt Disney Company LimitedSue is Principal Counsel at The Walt Disney Company Limited in London,specializing in data protection law within the EMEA region. Sue has beenworking at Disney since May 2004 and has wide experience in privacy acrossa large number of sectors including Marketing, HR, and the Internet. Sue isan active member of a number of Data Protection working groups. Suepreviously chaired the CBI, and UNICE working groups on Data protection.She is currently a member of the SCL Committee for the Privacy and DataProtection Group, and is on the European Advisory Board for IAPP. Sue isalso a regular speaker at privacy conferences.Lynn Goldstein, CIPP/USSenior Vice President & Chief Privacy OfficerJP Morgan ChaseLynn A. Goldstein is the Senior Vice President and Chief Privacy Officer forJPMorgan Chase. From 2001 to 2004 she was the General Counsel for BankOne, Delaware, N.A., Bank One’s credit card company, and from 2002 to2004 was the Privacy Officer for Bank One Corporation. From 1988 to 2001she was the head of the Litigation Practice Group in the Law Department ofBank One. She has been a lawyer at JPMorgan Chase, or one of itspredecessor entities, since 1983.Ms. Goldstein earned her undergraduatedegree in History and Secondary Education from the University of Iowa andher law degree with highest honors from the Illinois Institute ofTechnology/Chicago-Kent College of Law where she was Editor-in-Chief of theLaw Review.Fedelma GoodHead of Marketing Privacy & Information ManagementBarclaysFedelma is Head of Marketing Privacy and Information Management atBarclays Bank. She works closely with marketing and privacy teams acrossBarclays to ensure they leverage marketing opportunities and optimise thecustomer experience - compliantly. She is recognised as an expert in theareas of privacy, marketing and information management and is a frequentpresenter on these topics. A graduate of Trinity College Dublin, Fedelmastarted her working life with the Bank of Ireland in Dublin before moving toLondon to join Deloitte. Fedelma is a member of the DMA Board and chairsthe DMA’s Governance Committee and Cookies working party.

Chris GowGovernment Affairs ManagerCiscoChris Gow is Cisco’s lead for privacy policy in Europe. He joined Cisco inearly 2008 and alongside privacy, plays an active role in the GovernmentAffairs team on security, spectrum, e-skills, trade and tech policy. He iscurrently the Vice Chair of DIGITAL EUROPE’s Privacy and Security Group.Prior to Cisco, he was responsible for campaign strategies and digitaleconomy policy work at EICTA (now DIGITAL EUROPE). Chris first joined theBrussels scene in 2003 as an Assistant to an MEP, working on internal marketand legal affairs issues.Chris studied Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Oxford University.Hazel GrantPartnerBristowsHazel is a partner with Bristows, London. She advises on data protectioncompliance, including data transfers (using both EU model contracts andbinding corporate rules), outsourcing and cloud computing projects,government data sharing projects and responses to data security breaches.Hazel is rated as a leading individual for Data Protection in Chambers &Partners 2010, where she is described as: "highly respected". Chambers &Partners 2009 describe her as having "a deep understanding of dataprotection legislation and its application to the public and private sectors."Andrew JacquesGeneral Manager EMEAGood TechnologyLaura Juanes, CIPP/USDirector of International PrivacyYahoo! Inc.Laura Juanes serves as Director for International Privacy within Yahoo!’sPrivacy, Policy and Trust Group. She is specialized in online privacy mattersfor the company’s international properties, focusing on emerging markets inLatin America and the Asia-Pacific regions. Her interest in privacy and dataprotection has grown in step with the increased focus on this issueparticularly in emerging markets that see privacy as a critical aspect ofsuccessful digital development and trade. Before joining the Yahoo! Privacy,Trust and Safety Group, Ms. Juanes (a Spanish qualified lawyer) has helddifferent positions within Yahoo!’s legal function, both in Europe (as Yahoo!’sGeneral Counsel for Spain) and in the Americas (as the region’s LegalCompliance Director), where she has dealt with a wide range of mattersrelated to the online space, such as e-commerce, intellectual property,advertising, liability of ISP intermediaries, law enforcement, mobile, and ofcourse, privacy and data protection. Prior to joining Yahoo!, Ms. Juanesbegan her legal practice with the legal services of the Universidad Autónomade Madrid.

Rosemary JaySenior AttorneyHunton & Williams LLPRosemary Jay is a senior attorney at Hunton & Williams. She was previouslyHead of Information Law at Pinsentmasons, having been Head of Legal at theUK supervisory authority for 12 years before that. She has been consistentlyrecognized as one of the top data protection lawyers in the UK in "Band 1" byChambers and partners. Her practice covers all areas of information lawincluding access, interception and surveillance. She is the author of theleading text book Data Protection Law & Practice, and an editor of theEncyclopedia of Data Protection and Privacy.Glyn JennerAssistant General CounselBank of America – Merrill LynchBarbara Kirchberg-LennartzLufthansa Group Data Protection CommissionerDeutsche Lufthansa AGAfter studies of business economics and a doctorate she started herprofessional career at Lufthansa group. After positions in Internal Auditingand Financial Controlling at the corporate headquarter, she continued in thebusiness area Information Technology. There she took over responsibilities invarious functions in sales, IT-production, HR-management and as managingdirector of a consulting subsidiary. In 2008 she returned to the corporateheadquarter and took over the role of corporate data protection officer forLufthansa Group, thus coordinating the group wide data protectionorganization with the objective to ensure compliance in about 45 legal units.Meta KuyvenhovenAttorneyVersteeg Wigman Sprey advocatenJames Leaton GrayHead, Information Policy and Compliance DepartmentBritish Broadcasting CorporationJames Leaton Gray heads the BBC’s Information Policy and ComplianceDepartment, in the Legal section of the BBC’s Operations Group. He overseesthe operation of the Corporation’s systems for compliance with the DataProtection and Freedom of Information Acts, amongst others. His team areinvolved in many high profile cases in this rapidly evolving area of the law.James has been working in broadcasting, mainly for the BBC, for over 30years. He has worked on a wide variety of management roles. Before joiningthe Operations group he was a programme maker and spent much of his timein political journalism. He is a former Chairman of the Strategic PlanningSociety, and is a member of the Royal Television Society and the RadioAcademy. He is on the editorial board of Data Protection Law & Policy and is aMember of the Examination Board for the Practitioner Certificate in Freedomof Information.

Denise Lebeau-MariannaPartnerBaker & McKenzie LLPDenise Lebeau-Marianna is a Partner in Baker & McKenzie’s Paris office. Sheadvises on the legal aspects of personal data protection, and is a member ofthe firm’s Global Privacy Steering Committee. Denise also has expertise in ITmatters and in particular in computer and Internet law. She is experienced incontentious and non contentious IT issues, as well as the transactionalaspects of IT contracts. She assists clients in negotiating and draftingcomplex contracts in IT matters (software license, maintenance, outsourcing,facilities management, and consulting), electronic commerce, electronicsignature and intellectual property (audit or reorganization of IPRs in thecontext of a merger or acquisition). She is the member of various ITassociations.Phil Lee, CIPP/ESenior AssociateField Fisher WaterhousePhil Lee is a Senior Associate in Field Fisher Waterhouse's Privacy andInformation Law Group. Phil's practice focuses on data privacy and digitalregulation, and he has particular expertise in online profiling, targetedadvertising and mobile privacy. He has coordinated global privacy projectsacross more than 30 jurisdictions, and is a contributory author on UK privacylaw issues to the IAPP's practitioner text: "European Privacy: Law andPractice for Data Protection Professionals". Before qualifying as a lawyer, Philgraduated from Cambridge University with a degree in Computer Science. Healso holds a Postgraduate Diploma in Intellectual Property from BristolUniversity.William LongCounselSidley Austin LLPWilliam Long is counsel in the London office of Sidley Austin LLP. He advisesinternational clients on a wide variety of data protection, privacy, informationsecurity, e-commerce, payments and other regulatory matters. Mr. Long hasexperience with EU and international data protection and privacy projectsparticularly in the financial services and healthcare sectors advising on crossborderdata transfer and other data protection issues. Mr. Long is a regularspeaker on data protection and privacy matters. Mr. Long is a contributingeditor for Electronic Money and Payment Systems to Butterworths FinancialRegulation Service. English Solicitor.

Peter McLaughlin, CIPP/USSenior CounselFoley & Lardner LLPPeter F. McLaughlin is senior counsel with Foley & Lardner LLP and a memberof the firm’s Privacy Practice and the Health Care Industry Team. As theformer global privacy director and assistant general counsel of a Fortune 20health care company, Mr. McLaughlin has specific experience in data privacyand security issues relevant to the health care sector. In 2010, the Legal 500recognized Mr. McLaughlin’s work in the area of data protection and privacy.Mr. McLaughlin received his J.D. from Georgetown Law Center in 1993 andhis bachelor’s degree from Columbia University in 1986. He is vice-chair ofthe ABA’s Information Security Committee.Christopher MillardProfessor of Privacy and Information Law, Queen Mary, University of LondonConsultant, BristowsChristopher Millard is Professor of Privacy and Information Law at QueenMary, University of London and is a Senior Research Fellow at the OxfordInternet Institute at the University of Oxford. He is Of Counsel to the law firmBristows and has over 25 years experience advising clients in complexprivacy and information governance matters. He is General Editor of theInternational Journal of Law and IT and is Editor of International Data PrivacyLaw (both published by OUP). He has been designated Internet andeCommerce Lawyer of the Year by the International Who's Who of BusinessLawyers (2008 and 2009).Frank Morgan, CIPP/IT,CIPP/USInternational Privacy LeaderLockheed Martin CorporationThomas NortvedtHead of Section Digital ServicesThe Norwegian Consumer CouncilThomas Nortvedt is the Head of Section for Digital Services in The ConsumerCouncil of Norways policy department.The Consumer Council of Norway(NCC) is an independent, governmentally funded special interests group. Thepolicy department’s main goal is to strengthen the consumer’s position, andNortvedt heads the team responsible for promoting a consumer-friendlydigital society/promoting consumer-friendly digital services. Thomas Nortvedtis a lawyer by profession, specializing in copyright and information law. Hisprevious engagements include working for a Norwegian collecting society, aswell as being an in-house attorney at NCC. He is currently holding theposition as the European co-chair within TACDs Information Society.

Kaisa OlkkoneneVP, EU Representative OfficeNokiaKaisa Olkkonen, Vice President, EU Representative Office, Nokia Corporation,is responsible for Nokia´s regulatory work in Europe. She is also globallyresponsible for Nokia´s approach to privacy and data protection policy work.Her tasks have covered a broad range of legal matters, including technologylaw and contracting, various forms of co-operation agreements, intellectualproperty matters, consumer protection and marketing law, product safetyand liability, mergers and acquisitions and associated integration. For thepast years she has been especially focusing on the broad range of topicsaround Internet law, data protection and content licensing.Rocco PanettaPartnerPanetta & AssociatiRocco is an Italian Lawyer member of the Rome Bar Association. He mainlyfocuses on regulatory and contractual matters in the privacy and dataprotection field. He has significant experience in the telecommunications,energy (renewables) and environmental practice also, assisting domestic andinternational clients. Rocco has been a top level officer of the Italian DataProtection Authority, heading the legal department “Marketing activities andInternational data transfers”. He graduated at the School of Law of RomeUniversity of Rome “La Sapienza” and specialised at the School of Law of theUniversity of Warwick, UK, at the School of Management of the LondonSchool of Economics and Political Science, UK, and attended the Academy ofAmerican and International Law of the Southwestern Legal Foundation, TXUSA.Christian PardieuCounsel - Europe Privacy Leader and Government Affairs & PolicyGeneral ElectricChristian has been appointed Counsel, Europe Privacy Leader & GovernmentAffairs on September 1st 2010. In this role, Christian provides advice on EUand European Privacy Laws; coordinates the assessment, monitoring, andimplementation of processes to comply with these laws; and leads regulatoryand policy initiatives in the area of privacy and data protection. Christianworks as an integral part of the GE European legal and Government Affairs &Policy team. Christian joined GE Real Estate in May 2003 as EuropeCompliance Officer and was appointed Privacy Lead Lawyer for all GEBusinesses in France in May 2004. Christian is CIL – CorrespondantInformatique et Libertés of GE France since December 2005. Christian is agraduate of Dijon University and holds a Banking engineer master degreefrom CSBP.

Ellis ParryGlobal Lead – Data PrivacyBP International Ltd.Ellis Parry started his career as a solicitor in private practice, before joiningAstraZeneca pharmaceuticals in 2001 as a specialist IT lawyer. Ellis becameAstraZeneca's Global Privacy Officer in 2005. He left AZ to join BP as itsGlobal Lead for Data Privacy in December 2010. At BP, Ellis is responsible fordevising and implementing BP's global approach to personal informationhandling, including the maintenance of BP's Binding Corporate Rules. Ellis hasan MBA, is a frequent public speaker, has a number of published articles tohis name and was the founding Chair of DataGuidance's Pharma Expert Paneland continues to sit on their UK Expert Panel.Florence RaynalHead of International and European AffairsCNILFlorence has a master degree in private law from Paris Assas PantheonSorbonne University and post graduate diploma in IT law. She assisted thePresident Alex Türk in his Presidency of the WP29 until 2010, dealing with theEU Commission and the management of the WP29’s plenary and externalrepresentation. She has also been assisting the CNIL’s Commissioner incharge of international affairs in participating in all the work developed at theWP29.Making BCR (Binding Corporate Rules) successful was one of the challengesgiven to her. She then has developed European referential adopted by theWP29, promoted them to the business (e.g. “BCR Club”), instructed BCRcases and coordinated the work of the European Data Protection Authoritiesat the WP29 level on that subject.Cecilia Álvarez RigaudiasCounselUría MenéndezCecilia Álvarez is a lawyer in the Madrid office of Uría Menéndez. She wasadmitted to the Madrid Bar and joined the firm in 1997 and became a counselin January 2009.She focuses her practice on advising national andmultinational companies on matters relating to IT, data protection, e-commerce, contract law and corporate law. Regarding her personal dataprotection practice, she has a large experience in the data protection designof commercial and M&A transactions, in the preparation of notices, clauses,contracts, protocols and training programmes, in authorisation proceedingsfor international transfers and administrative and judicial proceedings.

Lisa SottoPartner & Head, Privacy and Information Management PracticeHunton & Williams LLPLisa Sotto is head of the Global Privacy and Data Security practice group atHunton & Williams LLP. She is one of the nation’s leading privacy lawyers,and was named the ”No. 1 privacy expert” by Computerworld magazine. Lisahas extensive experience counseling clients on privacy, data security andinformation management issues. She has testified before Congress andfederal agencies, frequently speaks around the world, and has authored orbeen quoted in more than 200 articles. She is the editor and lead author ofthe Privacy and Data Security Law Deskbook, published by Aspen Publishers.Emilia StepienSenior AssociateBird & BirdEmilia specialises in: privacy & data protection, intellectual property, e-commerce and new technology, as well as competition, commercial andconsumer protection law. Emilia has over seven years of legal experience.Before she joined Bird & Bird she gained experience in the EuropeanCommission, DG Internal Market and Services, Industrial Property Unit whereshe was dealing with EU Patent and European Patent and EU Patent Court.Prior to this, Emilia worked in several Polish and international law firms inWarsaw and in a patent attorney office. Emilia studied law at the WarsawUniversity in Poland. She also holds a diploma in English and European legalstudies from the University of Cambridge.Razvan StoicescuPartnerBulboaca & Asociatii SCARazvan Stoicescu is a Partner at Bulboaca & Asociatii SCA and a member ofthe Romanian Bar Association, and of the National Union of InsolvencyPractitioners in Romania. Before joining Bulboaca & Asociatii, Razvan workedin the banking & finance and corporate practice of Linklaters Bucharest, aswell as with the banking & finance practice of a major Romanian law firm.Among others, Razvan has extensive experience in IT&C with emphasis ondata protection issues as are these mirrored in various practice areas,including banking, financial services, telecom, or general corporate.Konstantin A. SuvorovPartnerKorelskiy, Ischuk, Astafiev Attorneys at lawKonstantin Suvorov is partner and head of IP/TMT practice at Korelskiy,Ischuk, Astafiev and Partners (KIAP), Attorneys at Law based in Moscow andLondon. Konstantin has a technical background – he studied AppliedMathematics and Physics at Moscow State Aviation Institute and law atRussian State Institute on Intellectual Property and started his career as anexaminer at Russian Patent Office in 2002. Konstantin has been dealing withintellectual property and technology issues for almost 10 years now. He is aregular speaker at major conferences and seminars on IP and Data protectionissues in Russia.

Dan SvantessonAssociate Professor, Faculty of LawBond UniversityDr. Dan Svantesson is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law, BondUniversity (Australia) and a Visiting Researcher at the Swedish Law andInformatics Research Institute at Stockholm University. He is the ManagingEditor for International Data Privacy Law – an international journal publishedby Oxford University Press aimed at both academics and the legal professionas well as policy makers – and a Vice-Chair of the Australian PrivacyFoundation.Richard Thomas, CBE, LLDUK Information Commissioner (2002-9)Global Strategy Advisor, Centre for Information Policy Leadership, Hunton &Williams LLPRichard Thomas is Global Strategy Advisor to the Centre for InformationPolicy Leadership at Hunton & Williams and a member of the Board of IAPP.He was the Information Commissioner for the United Kingdom fromNovember 2002 until his retirement at the end of June 2009. AsCommissioner, Mr. Thomas held independent status, reporting directly toParliament. He had a range of responsibilities under the Data Protection Actand Freedom of Information Acts and related laws. The functions of the ICOinclude promoting good practice, ruling on complaints and takingenforcement action. He was also a member of the Article 29 Working Group.Bridget TreacyPartnerHunton & Williams LLPBridget Treacy leads the UK privacy and information management practice atHunton & Williams. With a background in outsourcing transactions andtechnology law, she has more than 10 years of experience advising onprivacy issues in the EU, particularly as they affect international data flows.Her experience extends to counseling clients on data breaches andconducting privacy assessments. Ms. Treacy edits a UK privacy journal andalso is a regular speaker and author on privacy issues.Mike UsherDirector of Information RiskPrudential Corporation AsiaAn Information Security, Risk, Compliance and Governance professional withover 25 years’ experience. Delivering a consistent risk and business impactbased approach to the resolution of security issues with a proven track recordin large multi-national Corporate environments. Regular presenter on securityand governance issues at seminars and conferences. Experienced indelivering large scale programmes and projects with international and globalscope.

Eduardo Ustaran, CIPP/EPartner and Head of the Privacy and Information Law GroupField Fisher Waterhouse, LLPEduardo Ustaran is a partner at Field Fisher Waterhouse and the head of thePrivacy and Information Law Group. He is a dually qualified English solicitorand Spanish abogado based in London and an internationally recognisedexpert in privacy and data protection law. Ustaran specialises in the legalissues that derive from the use of information technology and the Internet.He has been named by Revolution magazine as one of the 40 most influentialpeople in the growth of the digital sector in the UK and is ranked as a LeadingIndividual for data protection by Chambers UK.Ustaran has been instrumentalto the development of IAPP Europe through his involvement in the EuropeanAdvisory Board and co-chairmanship of KnowledgeNet London.Eija WarmaAttorney-at-Law, Senior AssociateCastrén & Snellman Attorneys Ltd.Attorney Eija Warma has worked for Castrén & Snellman Attorneys Ltd since2005. Eija is responsible for the firm’s privacy practise and she is one of thefew Finnish attorneys specialised exclusively in privacy and data protectionmatters. Eija's long expertise, wide national and international expertise in thefield as well as her experience working at the Finnish Data ProtectionOmbudsman's office make her a well-recognised privacy and data protectionspecialist in Finland. Eija has also studied law in the United States at TulaneLaw School and the University of Minnesota Law School, where shecompleted an LL.M. degree.Dr. Mirjam Dora WeißeSynikusanwältin/Senior Legal CounselSiemens AGJustin Weiss, CIPP/USInternational Privacy DirectorYahoo! Inc.Justin B. Weiss serves as Senior Director for International Privacy and Policywithin Yahoo!’s Privacy, Trust & Safety Group, focusing on online privacymatters for the company’s many global properties, with specific emphasis ononline advertising privacy and consumer-facing communications and toolsadapted to diverse cultural and legal contexts. Leveraging his experience as alead drafter for US self-regulatory codes of conduct for online behavioraladvertising, he represents Yahoo! before world governments and withininternational trade associations and helps advise on the development of selfregulatoryindustry standards for publishers, ad networks, agencies andadvertisers, and their adaptation to new business models and changingtechnology.

Boris Wojtan, CIPP/EData Privacy Compliance Lead EALAAccentureBoris joined Accenture in April 2007 and is responsible for data privacycompliance in the EALA (Europe Africa and Latin America) region. His dutiesinclude maintaining a compliance programmes for both Accenture ownedpersonal data and client data, advising on client and vendor contracts,carrying out privacy impact assessments on new client offerings or newinternal systems, managing a network of DPOs, liaising with regulators,responsibility for Accenture’s BCR approval and anticipating regulatorychanges. Before moving to Accenture, Boris spent three years at the UKregulator, the Information Commissioner, where he liaised with otherEuropean regulators regarding the innovative ‘Binding Corporate Rules’process and advised on data privacy and freedom of information case workand policy.Will WormellEU and International Data Protection PolicyUK Ministry of JusticeWilliam Wormell started working in the EU and International Data ProtectionPolicy team at the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) in September 2011, where he isworking on the new EU data protection proposals as well as themodernisation of the Council of Europe’s Convention 108. He is a EuropeanFast Streamer and therefore is set to work on a variety of EU-facing roles inMoJ and elsewhere in Whitehall before looking to become a civil servant atthe European Commission. Before joining the civil service, he studied variouseconomics and European political science topics at the London School ofEconomics, from which he obtained a Bachelor’s degree in Government.