CDT Announces Members of 2017-2018 Advisory Council
The Center for Democracy & Technology (CDT) is delighted to announce the members of its 2017-2018 Advisory Council. This year’s cohort comprises 64 members from a wide variety of organizations and experiences, many of whom are leaders in the tech policy field.
“At CDT, we are always excited to welcome a diverse chorus of voices to the important conversations that are shaping the future of technology policy. We look forward to another year of work enriched by the generous contributions of our Advisory Council members,” said CDT President & CEO Nuala O’Connor.
The Advisory Council meets several times a year, and operates separately from CDT’s Board of Directors. The members are as follows:
Nancy C. Libin, Co-Chair, CDT Advisory Council & Partner, Jenner & Block LLP
Daniel J. Weitzner, Co-Chair, CDT Advisory Council & Principal Research Scientist, MIT Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence Lab
John Bailey, Fellow, Chan Zuckerberg Initiative
Stephen Balkam, Founder & CEO, Family Online Safety Institute
Alvaro Bedoya, Executive Director, Center on Privacy & Technology, Georgetown Law
Jerry Berman, Founder & Former President, Center for Democracy & Technology
Alyssa Betz, Senior Director of Public Policy, Oath
Mark Bohannon, Vice President, Global Public Policy & Government Affairs, Red Hat
J. Beckwith (“Becky”) Burr, Chief Privacy Officer, Neustar
Jon Callas, Cryptographer
Dan Caprio, Co-founder & Chairman, The Providence Group
Cordell Carter, Executive Director, Socrates Program, Aspen Institute
Pablo Chavez, Vice President, Global Public Policy, LinkedIn
Soraya Chemaly, Director, Speech Project, Women’s Media Center
Alissa Cooper, Distinguished Engineer in the Collaboration Technology Group, Cisco
Maura Corbett, Founder & CEO, Glen Echo Group
Robert Corn-Revere, Partner, Davis Wright Tremaine LLP
James Dempsey, Executive Director, Berkeley Center for Law & Technology
Nicholas Diamand, Partner, Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein LLP
Patrick Dolan, Executive Vice President & Chief Operating Officer, Interactive Advertising Bureau
Eileen Donahoe, Executive Director, Global Digital Policy Incubator at Stanford University
Erin Egan, Chief Privacy Officer of Policy, Facebook
Caroline Elkin, Senior Director, Legal, Chief Privacy Officer, Activision Blizzard
Donna Epps, Vice President, Public Policy & Strategic Alliances, Verizon
Nick Feamster, Professor of Computer Science & Deputy Director, Center for Information Technology & Policy at Princeton University
Harley Geiger, Director of Public Policy, Rapid7
Michael Gottlieb, President, Ballast Research
Marc Groman, Privacy & Data Protection Advisory/Business Strategy, Marc Groman LLC
Jim Halpert, Partner, DLA Piper LLP
Mona Hamdy, Advisor, DataZoom
Leslie Harris, Founder & Principal, Harris Strategy Group LLC
Jessica Herrera-Flanigan, Executive Vice President of Government & Corporate Affairs, Univision Communications Inc.
Todd Hinnen, Partner, Perkins Coie LLP
Jane Horvath, Senior Director, Global Privacy, Apple Inc.
Gus Hosein, Executive Director, Privacy International
Frederick S. Humphries, Vice President of U.S. Government Affairs, Microsoft
Brian Huseman, Vice President, Public Policy, Amazon
Chris Kelly, Founder, Kelly Investments
Karen Kornbluh, Senior Fellow for Digital Policy, Council on Foreign Relations
Adam Kovacevich, Senior Director of U.S. Public Policy & Government Relations, Google
Stephanie Martz, General Counsel, National Retail Federation
Elliot Maxwell, Chairman, e-Maxwell & Associates
Caroline McCarthy, Vice President, Communications & Content, true[x]
Bruce Mehlman, Founding Partner, Mehlman Castagnetti Rosen & Thomas
Katie Moussouris, Founder & CEO, Luta Security
Laura Murphy, President, Laura Murphy & Associates, LLC
Michael Nelson, Public Policy, Cloudflare
David Olive, Principal, Catalyst Partners
Lydia Parnes, Partner, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati
Michael Petricone, Senior Vice President of Government Affairs, Consumer Technology Association
Renate Samson, Chief Executive, Big Brother Watch
Ari Schwartz, Managing Director of Cybersecurity Services, Venable LLP
Jonah Seiger, Founder & CEO, Connections Media LLC
Jon Selib, Partner, Holdingham Group
Nico Sell, Chairman & Founder, 533DZ, r00tz, & Wickr
Tim Sparapani, Founder & Principal, SPQR Strategies, PLLC
Anne Toth, Founder & CEO, PrivacyWorks LLC
Peter Dengate Thrush, Former Chairman, ICANN
Tokë Vandervoort, Vice President & Deputy General Counsel, Under Armour
Stewart Verdery, CEO & Founder, Monument Policy Group
Justin Weiss, Global Head of Data Privacy, Naspers
Heather West, Senior Policy Manager, Mozilla
Christopher Wolf, Partner, Hogan Lovells
Jessie Woolley-Wilson, President & CEO, DreamBox Learning, Inc.