About the IAPP

Kate Charlet leads Google’s Privacy, Safety, and Security Center of Excellence within the Government Affairs and Public Policy (GAPP) team. Her global team of subject matter experts address matters relating to privacy, security, children’s policy, and government access to data.

Kate has spent most of her career at the intersection of technology and public policy. She was previously the inaugural director for Technology & International Affairs at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and spent a decade as a civil servant in the U.S. government, including as the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense (acting) for cyber policy, country director for Afghanistan, and director for strategic planning at the White House National Security Council.

Kate has a Bachelor's degree in Molecular Biology from Princeton University and a Masters degree in Strategic Studies from Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. She lives in the Washington, DC with her husband and two kids.