IAPP Vanguard Awards
IAPP Vanguard Awards honor privacy professionals whose pioneering work is helping to shape the future of privacy and data protection. Vanguard Award recipients have contributed essential knowledge through years of volunteer service and exceptional performance in their privacy and data protection work.
Each year, the awards celebrate one IAPP member from five geographical regions—Asia, EMEA, Latin America (including Mexico), North America (U.S. and Canada) and Oceania— who demonstrate exceptional leadership, expertise and creativity in privacy and data protection.
The IAPP is pleased to present the 2024 Vanguard Awards to:
Asia: Christopher Chew
Technical Leader - Security & Digital Trust, Cisco
EMEA: Onur Korucu
Managing Partner, GovernID
Latin America, including Mexico: José Alejandro Bermudez
Partner, Bermúdez & Esguerra Abogados
North America (US and Canada): Dominique Shelton Leipzig
Partner, Cybersecurity & Data Privacy; Leader, Global Data Innovation & AdTech, Mayer Brown
Oceania: Carolyn Lidgerwood
Authority Member, Australian Communications and Media Authority
All winners received commemorative IAPP plaques honoring their achievements at the IAPP Global Privacy Summit 2024.