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IAPP announces 2024 privacy award winners

Privacy thought leaders announced as winners of the IAPP Leadership Award, Diversity in Privacy Award and Global Vanguard Awards.

PORTSMOUTH, N.H. — 3 April – The International Association of Privacy Professionals, the largest and most comprehensive global information privacy and artificial intelligence governance community and resource, announced Danielle Citron as the winner of the IAPP Leadership Award, Dominique Shelton Leipzig as the winner of the Diversity in Privacy Award and the Global Vanguard Award for North America, Christopher Chew as the winner of the Global Vanguard Award for Asia, Onur Korucu as the winner of the Global Vanguard Award for the EMEA region, José Alejandro Bermudez as the winner of the Global Vanguard Award for Latin America, and Carolyn Lidgerwood as the winner of the Global Vanguard Award for Oceania.

"This year, the IAPP is proud to recognize six exceptional leaders for their outstanding work and dedication to the betterment of the privacy profession," IAPP President and CEO J. Trevor Hughes said. "From expanding the privacy community, to furthering public policy, to finding new and innovative solutions to privacy issues facing our field, the 2024 IAPP award winners are blazing the trail for the global privacy community."

IAPP Leadership Award
Selected by the IAPP leadership and announced at the Global Privacy Summit every year, the Leadership Award recognizes an individual or organization who demonstrates an ongoing commitment to furthering privacy policy, promoting recognition of privacy issues, and advancing the growth and visibility of the profession.

This year's recipient of the IAPP Leadership Award is Danielle Citron.

Danielle Keats Citron is the Jefferson Scholars Foundation Schenck Distinguished Professor in Law at the University of Virginia School of Law, where she co-directs the LawTech Center. She pairs her ideas and scholarship with on-the-ground advocacy. Her two books and more than 60 law review articles explore online abuse and platform responsibility, among other issues.

As the vice president of the decade-old Cyber Civil Rights Initiative, she, along with Dr. Mary Anne Franks, helps change state laws related to nonconsensual intimate imagery, works with members of Congress on reforms to Section 230, and works closely with state attorneys general on privacy policymaking. In 2019, she was named a MacArthur Fellow for her work on intimate privacy and cyberstalking. In 2023, she was made a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Diversity in Privacy Award and Global Vanguard Award for North America
The Diversity in Privacy Award is given annually to an IAPP member who demonstrates leadership in the promotion of equity and inclusion in the privacy field. The IAPP is proud to recognize Dominique Shelton Leipzig as the winner of the 2024 Diversity in Privacy Award. She Leipzig has also been awarded the Global Vanguard Award for North America.

Dominique Shelton Leipzig is a privacy and cybersecurity partner at Mayer Brown. Leading the firm's Global Data Innovation team, she counsels CEOs and board members on smart digital governance. She has trained more than 50,000 professionals in AI, privacy and cybersecurity.

Her fourth book is "Trust. Responsible AI, Innovation, Privacy & Data Leadership." She founded the Digital Trust Summit at Brown University's Watson Institute to help business, academic and governmental leaders reimagine effective data oversight. Dominique is the co-founder of NxtWork, a network dedicated to diverse leadership.

Vanguard Award
The IAPP Privacy Vanguard Awards recognize one IAPP member from five geographical regions — Asia, EMEA, Latin America (including Mexico), North America (the U.S. and Canada) and Oceania — who have achieved greatness in leadership, knowledge and creativity in the field of privacy and data protection. Winners are chosen by volunteer judges from each award region.

This year the IAPP is proud to announce Christopher Chew as the winner of the Global Vanguard Award for Asia, Onur Korucu as the winner of the Global Vanguard Award for the EMEA region, José Alejandro Bermudezas as the winner of the Global Vanguard Award for Latin America, Dominique Shelton Leipzig as the winner of the Global Vanguard Award for North America, and Carolyn Lidgerwood as the winner of the Global Vanguard Award for Oceania.

Christopher Chew is the technical leader at Cisco, where he collaborates with global customers, teams and partners to provide strategic guidance, technical advice and thought leadership in mobile communications, cloud, enterprise security architectures, managed services and digital Trust. He has over two decades of experience in information security, data privacy and digital transformation, leading the business, design and delivery of innovative and effective solutions for complex and diverse challenges in various industries. Chris is a Fellow of Information Privacy and a member of the Asia and Privacy Engineering Section Advisory Boards, where he contributes to the development and promotion of privacy engineering and technologies.

Onur Korucu embarked on her professional journey within multinational professional services firms such as KPMG, PwC and Grant Thornton, accumulating extensive experience as a consultant and senior management member across various global regions. Currently, she holds the position of managing partner and advisory board member at GovernID, with a primary focus on data protection and privacy-enhancing technology solutions.

José Alejandro was the inaugural deputy superintendent for the protection of personal data in Colombia, where he charted a path for Latin American data protection as the promoter of the Colombian Accountability Guidelines published by the Superintendency of Industry and Commerce.

As a member of the governmental commission appointed to draft the Colombian Data Protection Law and its secondary regulations, José Alejandro helped shape the data protection regulatory landscape in Latin America.

At Bermúdez & Esguerra Abogados he and his team advise and represent Colombian and multinational companies in the implementation of comprehensive privacy programs, defense in administrative enforcement procedures, notification and management of data breaches, drafting of international data transfer contracts, and conducting privacy due diligence in mergers and acquisitions transactions, among other things.

Carolyn Lidgerwood was appointed to the Australian Communications and Media Authority as a full-time member in September 2023. At the ACMA, Carolyn is the authority lead for gambling, and for compliance and enforcement.

Prior to being appointed as an ACMA authority member, Carolyn was the head of privacy at Rio Tinto in Melbourne for 12 years. She has over 30 years of experience specializing in data privacy and broadcasting law and compliance.

About the IAPP
The IAPP is the largest and most comprehensive global information privacy and AI governance community and resource. Founded in 2000, the IAPP is a not-for-profit organization that helps define, promote and improve the privacy profession globally. More information about the IAPP is available at iapp.org.