(WASHINGTON) — The Center for Democracy & Technology (CDT) is pleased to welcome Dr. Lorrie Cranor to its Board of Directors. Dr. Cranor is an expert in privacy, security, and public policy currently on the faculty at Carnegie Mellon University.
“I couldn’t be happier to have Dr. Cranor join the CDT board of directors,” said Alexandra Reeve Givens, President and CEO of CDT. “Lorrie brings invaluable expertise not only in public policy but in the deep technical details of digital privacy and security. Over the course of her career she’s shown herself to be uniquely able to connect complicated technologies to the fundamental principles that matter to ordinary people with clarity and precision.”
Cranor currently serves as the Director of the CyLab Security and Privacy Institute, Bosch Distinguished Professor in Security and Privacy Technologies, and the FORE Systems University Professor of Computer Science and of Engineering and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University. In 2016 she served as the Chief Technologist at the US Federal Trade Commission. She also co-founded Wombat Security Technologies, Inc, a security awareness training company. The author of over 200 research papers, she founded the Symposium On Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS), co-founded the Conference on Privacy Engineering Practice and Respect (PEPR), and chaired the Platform for Privacy Preferences Project (P3P) Specification Working Group at the World Wide Web Consortium.
Cranor joins existing CDT Board members Julie Brill, Bill Bernstein, Alexandra Reeve Givens, Peter Hustinx, Morten Kjaerum, Carl Landwehr, Travis LeBlanc, Katherine Maher, Bruce Mehlman, Laura W. Murphy, Lisa Rice, Philippa Scarlett, Mark Seifert, Dominique Shelton Leipzig, and David Vladeck.
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