The 5th Annual Data Privacy Conference

Cameron Kerry is a global thought leader on privacy and cross-border information flows. He joined Governance Studies and the Center for Technology Innovation at Brookings in December 2013 as the first Ann R. and Andrew H. Tisch Distinguished Visiting Fellow. Previously, Kerry served as general counsel and acting secretary of the U.S. Department of Commerce, where he was a leader on a wide of range of issues including technology, trade, and economic growth and security. He continues to speak and write on these issues, focusing primarily on privacy and information security, along with the international digital economy. During his time as acting secretary, Kerry served as chief executive of this Cabinet agency and its 43,000 employees around the world, as well as an adviser to former President Barack Obama. His tenure marked the first time in U.S. history two siblings have served in the president’s Cabinet at the same time.

As general counsel, he was the principal legal adviser to the several Secretaries of Commerce and Commerce agency heads. As co-chair of the National Science and Technology Council Subcommittee on Privacy and Internet Policy, Kerry spearheaded development of the White House blueprint on consumer privacy, Consumer Data Privacy in a Networked World: A Framework for Protecting Privacy and Promoting Innovation in the Global Digital Economy. He then led the administration’s implementation of the blueprint, drafting privacy legislation and engaging in privacy issues with international partners, including the European Union. He was a leader in the Obama administration’s successful effort to pass the America Invents Act, the most significant overhaul of the patent system in more than 150 years. He helped establish and lead the Commerce Department’s Internet Policy Task Force, and was the department’s representative on cybersecurity issues and similar issues in the White House “Deputies Committee.” Kerry also played a significant role on intellectual property policy and litigation, cybersecurity, international bribery, trade relations and rule of law development in China, the Gulf Oil spill litigation, and many other challenges facing a large, diverse federal agency.  He travelled to the People’s Republic of China on numerous occasions to co-lead the Transparency Dialogue with China as well as the U.S.-China Legal Exchange and exchanges on anti-corruption.

In addition to his Brookings affiliation, Kerry is a visiting scholar at the MIT Media Lab. He also served as senior counsel at Sidley Austin LLP in Boston, Massachusetts and Washington, D.C., where his practice involved privacy, security, and international trade issues. Before Kerry’s appointment to the Obama administration in 2009, he practiced law at the Mintz Levin firm in Boston and Washington and taught telecommunications law as an adjunct professor at Suffolk University Law School. Kerry has also been actively engaged in politics and community service throughout his adult life. During the 2004 presidential campaign, he was a close adviser and national surrogate for Democratic nominee John Kerry, traveling to 29 States and even Israel. He has served on the boards of nonprofits, and is currently on the board of the National Archives Foundation.

The Ann R. and Andrew H. Tisch Distinguished Visiting Fellows in Governance Studies are individuals of particularly noteworthy distinction. The fellowship is designed to bring distinguished visitors from government, business, journalism, and academia to Brookings to write about challenges facing the country. Kerry is the first to be named to this prestigious fellowship.

Maria Cantwell currently serves as a United States Senator for the State of Washington. As a respected leader – both in public service and in the private sector – Maria has always embraced the values she first learned growing up in a strong working-class family. With the help of Pell Grants, Maria was the first member of her family to graduate college. Later, a successful businesswoman in Washington’s hi-tech industry, she helped build a company that created hundreds of high-paying jobs from the ground up.

Maria was elected to the U.S. Senate in 2000, 2006, 2012, and again in 2018, pledging to honor the hard work, aspirations and faith of the people of Washington state. She is working to create affordable opportunities for consumers, businesses and families, to make our nation more secure today, to foster innovation for tomorrow, and to stand with parents as they educate and care for their children.

Maria gets results. She cut taxes for the middle-class by ensuring that Washington taxpayers can deduct state and local taxes from their federal returns. She fought attempts by the Bush Administration to raise local electricity rates. When bankrupt Enron officials tried to charge Washington ratepayers for millions of dollars in undelivered electricity, Maria led the effort that successfully stopped them. Maria has protected countless jobs in Washington’s aerospace industry by cracking down on foreign companies’ unfair trade practices and has worked to create still more well-paying jobs through effective investments in new technology and valuable job training. Maria is leading efforts in the Senate to make America more energy independent. She has been a proud advocate for better educational opportunities for our children and less expensive, more accessible health care for our families. Maria continues to build new growth and strong partnerships, insisting on responsibility and making life more affordable for all of Washington ‘s families.

Krista M.Z. Griffith is State Representative for the 12th District of Delaware, which includes neighborhoods in Wilmington, North Wilmington, Greenville, and Hockessin. She is a parent, attorney and advocate who has dedicated her career to protecting Delaware residents and improving the lives of people of all ages. Her work has helped ensure that Delawareans, including the most vulnerable, have access to economic and educational opportunity as well as equitable treatment by the justice system. 

Krista championed one of the strongest data privacy bills in the country — The Delaware Personal Data Privacy Act, which becomes effective Jan. 1, 2025. She also continues to address emerging technology most recently with the creation of the Delaware A.I. Commission.

Krista served for nearly a decade as a Deputy Attorney General in the Delaware Department of Justice under the administrations of Beau Biden and Matt Denn.  Krista led Attorney General Biden’s Senior Protection Initiative and was assistant unit head of the Department of Justice’s Domestic Violence and Child Abuse units. She also represented state agencies including the Department of Services for Children, Youth and their Families. Currently, Krista serves as CEO of the Children’s Advocacy Center of Delaware.

Krista knows first-hand the healthcare challenges confronting Delaware families.  When her younger son, Nate, faced a life-threatening leukemia diagnosis, Krista left the Department of Justice in 2015. She spent months at Nate’s bedside while he underwent successful cancer treatment.

Krista has dedicated hundreds of hours to board leadership and community service for several nonprofit organizations in Delaware including the Down Syndrome Association of Delaware.

As Microsoft’s Chief Privacy Officer and Corporate Vice President of Global Privacy, Safety, and Regulatory Affairs, Julie Brill leads the company’s work in the tech policy, regulatory, and legal issues that underpin the world’s digital transformation. She is the central figure in Microsoft’s advocacy for responsible data use and policy around the globe.  

Building on her distinguished public service career spanning more than three decades at the federal and state level, Brill directs Microsoft’s teams that lead privacy, digital safety, regulatory governance, law enforcement and national security, telecom, standards, and accessibility regulation. In her role, Brill also spearheads the company’s advocacy for responsible approaches to privacy, safety, and data protection around the world. 

Prior to her role at Microsoft, Brill was nominated by President Barack Obama and confirmed unanimously by the U.S. Senate. She served for six years as a Commissioner of the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC), from 2010 to 2016. As Commissioner, she worked tirelessly on issues of critical importance to consumers, including privacy, fair advertising practices, fighting financial fraud, and maintaining competition in all industries, with a special focus on healthcare and technology. Brill has also served as a partner and co-chair of privacy and security at the global law firm Hogan Lovells, Senior Deputy Attorney General and Chief of Consumer Protection and Antitrust for the North Carolina Department of Justice, and Assistant Attorney General for Consumer Protection and Antitrust for the State of Vermont. Brill also was a Lecturer-in-Law at Columbia University.  

Brill has been elected to the American Law Institute and received numerous awards for her work. She was named “the Commission’s most important voice on Internet privacy and data security issues,” a Top Data Privacy Influencer in 2020, and winner of the International Association of Privacy Professionals Privacy Leadership Award in 2014, among other honors.  

In addition to her role at Microsoft, Brill is active in civil society, serving as a board member of the International Association of Privacy Professionals, a board member of the IAPP AI Governance Center Advisory Board, a board member of the Center for Democracy and Technology, and Governor for The Ditchley Foundation. 

Brill graduated magna cum laude from Princeton University and New York University School of Law, where she had a Root-Tilden Scholarship for her commitment to public service.

Brandon Pugh is the director and senior fellow of the R Street Institute’s Cybersecurity and Emerging Threats team, which includes a large focus on data privacy and data security. Outside of R Street, he serves in the U.S. Army Reserve as a national security law professor at The Judge Advocate General’s Legal Center and School after serving as a paratrooper and international law officer. Brandon is a nonresident fellow with the Army Cyber Institute at the United States Military Academy at West Point and a member of the International Association of Privacy Professional’s (IAPP) Research Advisory Board.

Previously, he served in elected and appointed office at the local, county, and state level, managed a cyberwarfare publication, was a fellow with the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and was legislative counsel for a state legislature, where he handled nearly all policy and legislation on cybersecurity, emerging technology and privacy for the office. Brandon has presented and been published dozens of times, delivering congressional testimony and appearing on national television. He is licensed to practice law in the State of New Jersey and the District of Columbia.

As a former Capitol Hill staffer with over 10 years experience as a legislative staffer, India’s main job is to make sure that the laws of the land don’t suck the life out of the internet. India’s passion has always been for good public policy, and she’s excited to be using skills developed during past legislative and appropriations battles to fight for encryption, for consumer privacy, and civil liberties in the digital realm.

Cameron Kerry is a global thought leader on privacy and cross-border information flows. He joined Governance Studies and the Center for Technology Innovation at Brookings in December 2013 as the first Ann R. and Andrew H. Tisch Distinguished Visiting Fellow. Previously, Kerry served as general counsel and acting secretary of the U.S. Department of Commerce, where he was a leader on a wide of range of issues including technology, trade, and economic growth and security. He continues to speak and write on these issues, focusing primarily on privacy and information security, along with the international digital economy. During his time as acting secretary, Kerry served as chief executive of this Cabinet agency and its 43,000 employees around the world, as well as an adviser to former President Barack Obama. His tenure marked the first time in U.S. history two siblings have served in the president’s Cabinet at the same time.

As general counsel, he was the principal legal adviser to the several Secretaries of Commerce and Commerce agency heads. As co-chair of the National Science and Technology Council Subcommittee on Privacy and Internet Policy, Kerry spearheaded development of the White House blueprint on consumer privacy, Consumer Data Privacy in a Networked World: A Framework for Protecting Privacy and Promoting Innovation in the Global Digital Economy. He then led the administration’s implementation of the blueprint, drafting privacy legislation and engaging in privacy issues with international partners, including the European Union. He was a leader in the Obama administration’s successful effort to pass the America Invents Act, the most significant overhaul of the patent system in more than 150 years. He helped establish and lead the Commerce Department’s Internet Policy Task Force, and was the department’s representative on cybersecurity issues and similar issues in the White House “Deputies Committee.” Kerry also played a significant role on intellectual property policy and litigation, cybersecurity, international bribery, trade relations and rule of law development in China, the Gulf Oil spill litigation, and many other challenges facing a large, diverse federal agency.  He travelled to the People’s Republic of China on numerous occasions to co-lead the Transparency Dialogue with China as well as the U.S.-China Legal Exchange and exchanges on anti-corruption.

In addition to his Brookings affiliation, Kerry is a visiting scholar at the MIT Media Lab. He also served as senior counsel at Sidley Austin LLP in Boston, Massachusetts and Washington, D.C., where his practice involved privacy, security, and international trade issues. Before Kerry’s appointment to the Obama administration in 2009, he practiced law at the Mintz Levin firm in Boston and Washington and taught telecommunications law as an adjunct professor at Suffolk University Law School. Kerry has also been actively engaged in politics and community service throughout his adult life. During the 2004 presidential campaign, he was a close adviser and national surrogate for Democratic nominee John Kerry, traveling to 29 States and even Israel. He has served on the boards of nonprofits, and is currently on the board of the National Archives Foundation.

The Ann R. and Andrew H. Tisch Distinguished Visiting Fellows in Governance Studies are individuals of particularly noteworthy distinction. The fellowship is designed to bring distinguished visitors from government, business, journalism, and academia to Brookings to write about challenges facing the country. Kerry is the first to be named to this prestigious fellowship.

Alvaro Bedoya was sworn in on May 16, 2022 as a Commissioner of the Federal Trade Commission. 

Commissioner Bedoya is especially interested in how the FTC can help people living paycheck to paycheck. He spends as much time as he can meeting with small business owners, working people, and community leaders in rural and urban America. 

Before his confirmation, Commissioner Bedoya founded the Center on Privacy & Technology at Georgetown Law and also helped establish the U.S. Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Privacy as its first chief counsel. In these roles, he helped pass laws to stop the abuse of face surveillance technology and the unrestricted sharing of people’s information with national security and law enforcement agencies. Much of his work on privacy focuses on its importance to unpopular religious and ethnic minorities. His essay on the subject, “Privacy as Civil Right,” is featured in textbooks used in U.S. law schools. 

A naturalized citizen born in Peru, Bedoya co-founded the Esperanza Education Fund, the first status-blind college scholarship for immigrant students in D.C., Maryland, and Virginia, and worked as a field researcher for the International Labor Organization’s Special Action Program to Combat Forced Labor, where he wrote exposés on debt bondage and other forms of forced labor in South America. He practiced law at Wilmer, Cutler, Pickering, Hale & Dorr, and served on the non-profit boards of the Hispanic Bar Association of the District of Columbia and CASA. 

Bedoya graduated summa cum laude from Harvard College and holds a J.D. from Yale Law School, where he served on the Yale Law Journal and received the Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans. He lives in Rockville, Maryland with his wife, Dr. Sima Bedoya of Louisiana, a pediatric psychologist.

Dr. Travis Hall is the Acting Associate Administrator for the National Telecommunications and Information Administration’s Office of Policy and Development. In this role, oversees NTIA’s policy development on issues including Artificial Intelligence, privacy, cybersecurity, intellectual property, national security, and telecommunications. Before joining the Department of Commerce in 2015, Travis taught at American University and was a research fellow at the Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society in Berlin, Germany.  He received his PhD in Media, Culture, and Communications from New York University, and his MA in International Communications and BA in International Relations from American University.

Morgan Reed is the president of ACT | The App Association, representing thousands of app makers and connected device companies in the mobile economy. Mr. Reed is also a member of the Health and Human Services-appointed Advisory Panel on Outreach and Education (APOE) for Medicare and serves on the American Medical Association’s (AMA’s) Digital Medicine Payment Advisory Group (DMPAG). In these roles, he helps guide the federal government’s coverage of and communications about healthcare services.

He is also part of the developer team for the Linux Router Project (LEAF) and remains an active Apple and iOS licensed developer.

Neil Chilson is a lawyer, computer scientist, and author of the book “Getting Out of Control: Emergent Leadership in a Complex World.” As Head of AI Policy at the Abundance Institute, Chilson works to create a policy and cultural environment where emerging technologies (including artificial intelligence) can develop and thrive in order to perpetually expand widespread human prosperity.

Prior to the Abundance Institute, Chilson was a senior research fellow at the Center for Growth and Opportunity. He joined CGO from major philanthropic community Stand Together where he spearheaded ST’s efforts to foster an environment that encourages innovation and the individual and societal progress it makes possible.

Previously, Chilson was the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) chief technologist. In this capacity, he focused on understanding the economics of privacy, convening a workshop on informational injury, and establishing the FTC’s Blockchain Working Group, among other things. Prior to his appointment, Chilson was an adviser to then-Acting FTC Chairman Maureen K. Ohlhausen. In both roles he advised Chairman Ohlhausen and worked with commission staff on nearly every major technology-related case, report, workshop, and proceeding. Chilson practiced telecommunications law at Wilkinson Barker Knauer, LLP before joining the FTC in January 2014.

Chilson has testified before both the U.S. House and U.S. Senate on artificial intelligence. He is also a regular contributor to multiple news outlets, including the Washington Post, USA Today, and Newsweek. A partial list of his related publications is available here.

Chilson holds a law degree from the George Washington University Law School and a master’s degree in computer science from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He received his bachelor’s degree in computer science from Harding University.

Chloe Autio is an artificial intelligence (AI) and emerging technology policy expert with nearly a decade of experience advising leading organizations on technology policy and governance. She is an independent consultant to Fortune 50 companies, startups, leading trade associations and AI labs on policy strategy and engagement. She also advises government and civil society organizations on initiatives concerning AI oversight and policy. 

Recently, Chloe helped build the policy practice at the Cantellus Group, where she led governance and implementation projects for intergovernmental organizations and multinationals across tech, defense, and manufacturing. Prior to Cantellus, Chloe was a Director of Public Policy at Intel Corp., where she led public policy development and engagement on issues like AI, privacy, human rights and ESG. At Intel, Chloe led the development of the enterprise Responsible AI program, and worked across the private sector and with other stakeholders to shape policy and best practices for the responsible use of emerging technologies. 

Chloe is a frequent speaker on AI policy and practice, a founding board member of the DC chapter of Women in Security and Privacy (WISP), and has been nominated for various Women in AI awards by Venturebeat and others. Her insights have been featured in Axios, Bloomberg, and other outlets. She holds an economics degree from UC Berkeley, where she studied a range of topics related to technology policy, data ethics, and the social implications of computing. Chloe resides in the DC metro area. 

Dan Caprio is an internationally recognized expert on privacy and cybersecurity. He has served as the Chief Privacy Officer and Deputy Assistant Secretary at the Commerce Department, a transatlantic subject matter for the European Commission’s Internet of Things formal expert group, a Chief of Staff at the Federal Trade Commission and a member of the Department of Homeland Security Data Privacy and Integrity Advisory Committee. In 2002, Dan represented the United States revising the OECD Security Guidelines that formed the basis for the first White House Strategy to Secure Cyberspace.

Dr. Ron S. Jarmin has been the U.S. Census Bureau’s deputy director and chief operating officer since January 2019.

He served as acting director from January 2021 to January 2022. He performed the nonexclusive functions and duties of the director from July 2017 to January 2019 and previously served as the associate director for economic programs. Jarmin led the team for the 2017 Economic Census, overseeing a move to 100 percent Internet data collection and leveraging enterprise investments to minimize system, application, and dissemination costs. Economic census data products provide the foundation for key measures of economic performance, including the nation’s gross domestic product.

From 2011 to 2016, Jarmin served as assistant director for research and methodology. He oversaw a broad research program in statistics, survey methodology, and economics aimed at improving economic and social measurements within the federal statistical system. Since beginning his career at the Census Bureau in 1992, he has also served as the chief economist, chief of the Center for Economic Studies, and a research economist.

Jarmin holds a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Oregon. An elected fellow of the American Statistical Association, he has published papers in the areas of industrial organization, business dynamics, entrepreneurship, technology and firm performance, urban economics, data access, and statistical disclosure avoidance.

Bradley White is the Senior Director of Privacy Policy and Oversight at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Privacy Office.  Mr. White has held this position since March 2021.  In this role, he is responsible for the Privacy Policy team, which in addition to developing the Department’s privacy policies also reviews information sharing agreements and intelligence products, and the Privacy Oversight team, which conducts privacy compliance reviews, privacy investigations, and responds to privacy incidents for the Department.  Mr. White currently serves as a member of Board of Directors for the American Society of Access Professionals, or ASAP.

Prior to assuming his current role, Mr. White served as the Senior Director for FOIA Litigation and Policy in the DHS Privacy Office.  He served as the FOIA Officer for the DHS Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties (CRCL) from September 2016 through September 2019 and was also detailed as the Acting Director for FOIA Litigation and Appeals in the Privacy Office from October 2018 through September 2019.  Prior to joining CRCL, Mr. White worked in the FOIA Office for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, where he established and led their FOIA Litigation Team.

Mr. White holds a BA in Communications, Legal Institutions, Economics, and Government from American University, and JD from the American University Washington College of Law. He is a proud AU Eagle, and an active alumni volunteer.

Janet Haven is the executive director of Data & Society. She has worked at the intersection of technology policy, governance, and accountability for more than twenty years, both domestically and internationally. Janet is a member of the National Artificial Intelligence Advisory Committee (NAIAC), which advises President Biden and the National AI Initiative Office on a range of issues related to artificial intelligence. In 2024, she became an appointed AI expert advising the members of the UN Secretary-General’s High-Level Advisory Body on AI. Janet is also a member of Partnership on AI’s philanthropy steering committee, and has brought her expertise in nonprofit governance to bear through varied board memberships. She writes and speaks regularly on matters related to technology and society, federal AI research and development, and AI governance and policy.

Before joining D&S, Janet spent more than a decade at the Open Society Foundations. There, she oversaw funding strategies and worldwide grant-making related to technology, human rights, and governance, and played a substantial role in shaping the emerging international field focused on technology and accountability.

Janet began her career in technology start-ups in Central Europe and lived in the region for more than fifteen years. She holds an MA from the University of Virginia and a BA from Amherst College.

Hannah Quay-de la Vallee is a Senior Technologist at the Center for Democracy & Technology. While she brings her technical expertise to bear across CDT’s projects, she is primarily focused on the Equity in Civic Technology Project, dedicated to ensuring that education agencies and other civic institutions use data and technology responsibly while protecting the privacy and civil rights of individuals. Hannah received her PhD in computer science from Brown University in 2017. For her dissertation, she designed and built tools that help users better manage privacy on their mobile devices.

Madeline is a data privacy and security reporter based in Washington, DC. She got her start in journalism in local news, covering anything and everything in Maryland, Vermont, New Hampshire and Massachusetts before coming to DC to report on tech.

Congresswoman Haley Stevens was born in Rochester Hills, Michigan, and graduated from Seaholm High School in Birmingham. She earned a master’s degree in social policy and philosophy and a bachelor’s in political science and philosophy from American University.

Before being elected to Congress, Congresswoman Stevens served as the Chief of Staff to the U.S. Auto Rescue Task Force, the federal initiative responsible for saving General Motors, Chrysler, and 200,000 Michigan Jobs. She also played a crucial role in setting up the Office of Recovery for Automotive Communities and Workers and the White House Office of Manufacturing Policy. After serving in the Obama Administration, Congresswoman Stevens worked in a manufacturing research lab focused on the future of work in the digital age.

Congresswoman Haley Stevens sits on the House Committees on Education and the Workforce and Science, Space & Technology, where she serves as the Ranking Member of the Research & Technology Subcommittee. In the 118th Congress, she was appointed to the new U.S. House Select Committee on Strategic Competition between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party. On these Committees, Congresswoman Stevens serves as the leading voice for Michigan’s best-in-class manufacturers and workforce, increased investment in critical research and development, and solutions to address the real issues impacting kids in schools, including gun violence prevention, school nutrition, and full IDEA funding.

Congress Congresswoman Stevens played a central role in advancing the CHIPS and Science Act, a historic investment our research institutions and in American manufacturing. The final package included several bills that she authored and moved through the Committee, including the CHIPPING IN Act to expand and diversify the U.S. chips workforce and the NIST for the Future Act, a comprehensive reauthorization for the agency that supports U.S. competitiveness through precision measurement research, technology development, partnerships with industry, facilitating and developing standards. Her first bill signed into law, the Building Blocks of STEM Act, advanced the role of girls and students of color in the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics fields, a core priority of Congresswoman Stevens. This bill became law during her first year in office.

Congresswoman Stevens resides in Birmingham, Michigan, and is frequently seen walking through the many communities of her beloved Oakland County.

Rebecca “Becky” Richards is Chief, ODNI Civil Liberties, Privacy, and Transparency Office. In this role, she serves as an independent, primary advisor to the Director of National Intelligence and other senior DNI officials to ensure that the Intelligence Community’s missions, programs, activities, policies, and technologies protect privacy and civil liberties. She serves as ODNI’s primary liaison with the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board (PCLOB), the designated ODNI Senior Agency Official for Privacy, and ODNI’s Information Sharing Environment Privacy Official. She also leads the effort to implement the Principles of Intelligence Transparency for the Intelligence Community.

Ms. Richards has served as the first Director of Civil Liberties and Privacy at the National Security Agency (NSA) since February 2014. As an advisor to the Director of NSA, she enhances decision making to ensure that civil liberties and privacy protections are incorporated into the Agency’s operations, technologies, and policies. In addition, Ms. Richards is NSA’s first Transparency Officer, a dual role that reflects a commitment to meet national security challenges while also inspiring the trust of the American people. She finds effective ways to communicate with the public about the value of signals intelligence and the tools NSA needs to conduct its mission.

Previously, Ms. Richards served for almost 10 years in a variety of privacy-related leadership positions at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), including Senior Director for Privacy Compliance. She advanced DHS privacy initiatives by creating the Privacy Threshold Analysis, establishing extensive guidance on conducting Privacy Impact Assessments, developing educational programs for the workforce, and conducting audits of privacy compliance to meet the nation’s international agreements and commitments. For these efforts, she was honored in 2008 with the Secretary of DHS Silver Medal.

Ms. Richards’ long career in the privacy field also includes positions at TRUSTe, the independent non-profit privacy seal program, and at the U.S. Department of Commerce, where she began her federal service as an international trade specialist, providing input to the landmark U.S.-EU Safe Harbor Accord. Ms. Richards received the rank of Meritorious Executive in the Defense Intelligence Senior Executive Service in 2017 for her work at NSA in civil liberties, privacy, and transparency.

Ms. Richards earned a Master’s degree in international trade and Investment policy and a Master’s degree in business administration from George Washington University. She received her B.A. from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, where she graduated magna cum laude. She holds certifications from the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP), the world’s largest information privacy organization. Ms. Richards was a contributing author to the book “Building a Privacy Program: A Practitioner’s Guide.”

LOYAAN A. EGAL is the Bureau Chief of the Enforcement Bureau. He leads the FCC unit (including regional and field offices in 13 locations across the country) responsible for enforcing violations of the Communications Act of 1934, as amended, and FCC regulations under Title 47 of the Code of Federal Regulations. Mr. Egal previously served as a Deputy Chief in the Foreign Investment Review Section (FIRS) of the U.S. Department of Justice’s (DOJ) National Security Division (NSD). In his capacity as Deputy Chief, he directly oversaw FIRS’s and NSD’s roles in representing the Attorney General as the Chair of the “Committee for the Assessment of Foreign Participation in the United States Telecommunications Services Sector,” which is also known as “Team Telecom,” pursuant to Executive Order 13913. In addition, he supervised the coordination of parallel reviews involving Team Telecom and the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS), as well as DOJ’s referrals to the Department of Commerce, pursuant to Executive Order 13873, involving foreign ownership, control, or investment in the U.S. telecommunications and information and communications technology services (ICTS) networks and infrastructure supply chains. Mr. Egal worked closely with the FCC, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the National Security Council, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence and the Intelligence Community, the U.S. Departments of Defense, Homeland Security, Commerce, State, and the Treasury, and the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative, among others, to reach consensus on policies and actions that impacted U.S. national security, law enforcement, diplomatic, economic, and trade equities in the telecommunications and ICTS sectors.

Mr. Egal previously served in the FCC’s Enforcement Bureau, where he established and led the Universal Service Fund Strike Force (now known as the Fraud Division), the FCC’s first white collar fraud unit. Prior to that, he was an Assistant United States Attorney in the Southern District of New York and the District of Columbia, where he investigated and prosecuted cases involving public corruption, official bribery, the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), campaign finance fraud, bank, mail, wire, and tax fraud, and international narcotics trafficking and money laundering. Mr. Egal clerked for the Honorable Alia Moses, U.S. District Judge for the Western District of Texas. He received his undergraduate degree from St. John’s University and earned his law degree at the Howard University School of Law, where he served as Managing Editor of the Howard Law Journal.

Hilary oversees policy development for the association and works with the policy team to advance the association’s policy priorities and objectives. Hilary previously served as Vice President of Technology, Innovation, and Mobility Policy at Auto Innovators and spent nearly 8 years as Director of Technology and Innovation Policy at Toyota. Prior to joining the auto industry, Hilary worked for almost a decade in the U.S. House of Representatives. She holds a J.D. and a M.A. in Public Affairs from the University of Texas and a B.A. in Political Science from the University of Washington. In June of 2020, Hilary was recognized as a Rising Star in the automotive industry by Automotive News for her work at the forefront of emerging technology policy.

Elizabeth (Liza) Goitein is senior director of the Brennan Center for Justice’s Liberty & National Security Program. 

Goitein is a nationally-recognized expert on presidential emergency powers, government surveillance, and government secrecy. Her writing has been featured in major newspapers and magazines including the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, the Los Angeles Times, the Atlantic, and the New Republic, and she has appeared frequently on MSNBC, CNN, and NPR. She has testified on several occasions before the Senate and House Judiciary Committees. 

Before coming to the Brennan Center, Goitein served as counsel to Senator Russ Feingold, chairman of the Constitution Subcommittee of the Senate Judiciary Committee, and as a trial attorney in the Federal Programs Branch of the Civil Division of the Department of Justice. Goitein graduated from Yale Law School and clerked for the Honorable Michael Daly Hawkins on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. In 2021–22, she was a member of the inaugural class of Senior Practitioner Fellows at the University of Chicago’s Center for Effective Government.

Goitein is admitted to the bar in the State of Massachusetts. Her practice in Washington, DC, is limited to practice before U.S. courts as provided in DCCA Rule 49(c)(3).

Jonathan Litchman is a national security veteran with experience as an intelligence officer and as a staff member on the United States Senate Foreign Relations Committee. He was also a senior executive at Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) where he led efforts in software product development and consulted on information operations and strategic planning. He most recently led Edelman Public Relations’ Washington, D.C. cybersecurity policy and national security practice.

Sam Schofield is a Senior Policy Advisor in the Office of Global Data Privacy Policy (GDPP) at the U.S. Department of Commerce – International Trade Administration. In this role, his policy portfolio focuses on regulation of privacy, cross-border data flows, and artificial intelligence (AI) governance in the commercial context, as well as cross-cutting trade and national security issues related to the digital economy and emerging technologies.  Geographically, his portfolio focuses primarily on Latin America where he works with foreign government counterparts to develop interoperable regulatory frameworks for privacy, cross-border data flows and AI governance that support industry interests.  Multilaterally, Sam participates in the U.S. delegation to Digital Policy Committee (DPC) at the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) Digital Policy Committee (DPC), as well as serves on the OECD AI, Data, and Privacy and Data Free Flow with Trust (DFFT) Experts Communities. Sam has 15 years of diverse professional experience spanning international development, management consulting, and the U.S. federal government.  He has an MBA from American University and a B.A. in International Affairs from the University of New Hampshire.  He has full professional proficiency in Spanish and working proficiency in Portuguese.

Pierantonio D’Elia is posted at the Delegation of the European Union to the US starting in September 2024 and responsible for Competition and Justice policy. Prior to this he served as a policy officer and case handler at DG Competition in Brussels, where he handled merger investigations in the IT, telecom and digital sectors, contributed to merger policy, and dealt with wider Commission priorities and strategic coordination. Before joining the European Commission, Pierantonio was a senior attorney at Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP, working in the Brussels and Rome offices. He holds an LLM from Harvard Law School, a PhD in European law from the University of Rome “La Sapienza” and Master’s degree in European studies from the Free University of Brussels. 

Lawyer with a Master’s Degree in Government and Public Administration. Teacher at the law school of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), teaching Human Rights and their Guaranties as well as the Right to Information and Data Protection.

Counts with professional experience in the public and private sector, where he performed different positions in the Federal Judicial Power.

Has international experience in the field of Human Rights in the Inter American Commission of Human Rights (Washington DC).

For more than 8 years he has worked at the National Institute of Transparency, Access to Information and Personal Data Protection (INAI) where he has held different positions in Access to Information and Data Protection. Currently he is the Director General for Research and Verification of the Private Sector. 

Paula J. Bruening is Counsel for Sequel Technology and IP Law, LLC and Founder and Principal of Casentino Strategies LLC, a privacy and information policy consulting firm. She works with clients on issues related to emerging technologies, privacy governance and compliance with data protection regulation. Most recently, she served as Director of Global Privacy Policy at Intel Corporation, where she developed and coordinated privacy policy across the company. During her tenure with the Centre for Information Policy Leadership, she was principal drafter of consensus-based documents mapping an approach to accountability in data governance.

Ms. Bruening’s experience spans government, advocacy and international organizations. Her writing on data protection has been published in academic and policy journals in the United States and abroad. She holds a J.D. from Case Western Reserve University School of Law.

Daniel K. Alvarez is Co-Chair of the Privacy, Cybersecurity & Data Strategy Practice Group, and a member of the Communications & Media Department, and AI & Emerging Technologies and Crisis Management Practice Groups. Mr. Alvarez has been recognized by The Legal 500 as a “Next Generation Partner.” His practice focuses on advising and representing a diverse array of companies from across different industries on matters related to innovative data uses, privacy, data protection, and cybersecurity—including developing policies and procedures related to the collection, use, and security of data, developing and negotiating vendor and customer contracts involving data transfers, and conducting risk assessments related to automated decision-making, artificial intelligence, and other, similar activities. Drawing on a broad range of experience from different positions in government, Mr. Alvarez helps clients navigate the legal, policy, and regulatory issues raised by different potential data collection and processing activities.

Mr. Alvarez also advises companies with respect to crisis management, focusing on security incident planning, preparation, and response. In that role, Mr. Alvarez has been breach counsel to companies involved in some of the most significant data breaches and security incidents of the last decade, including companies in the software, healthcare, retail, and communications industries. He has experience managing forensic and other consultants in the wake of major breaches, directing the process of notifying consumers and regulators, and representing companies before regulators and law enforcement.

Matthew Reisman is Director of Privacy and Data Policy at the Centre for Information Policy Leadership (CIPL), where he is working to advance the responsible use of data and technology. Matthew’s areas of focus include data protection, artificial intelligence policy and governance, and privacy-enhancing technologies (PETs).  Prior to joining CIPL, Matthew was a Director of Global Privacy Policy at Microsoft. He helped shape the company’s advocacy on data protection, including its intersections with security, digital safety, trade, and trustworthy cross-border data flows. Matthew previously led Microsoft’s advocacy on international trade policy.

Prior to joining Microsoft, Matthew led research on the digital economy and trade in services at the United States International Trade Commission (USITC). Matthew also worked at Nathan Associates, where he advised emerging economies on international trade and investment policy through programs funded by the United States Agency for International Development and the World Bank.