Monika Tomczak-Gorlikowska, AIGP, CIPP/E, CIPT

Prosus and Naspers

Group Head of Privacy, Digital & Regulatory

Monika Tomczak-Górlikowska is the Global Head of Privacy, Digital & Regulatory for the Prosus Group - a multinational consumer internet group with headquarters in Europe and one of the largest technology investors in the world. Monika also serves as a member of the Board of Directors of the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP). Monika began her career at the Legal Service of the General Secretariat of the Council of the EU in Brussels. She is now based in Amsterdam and previously was the Senior Data Privacy Legal Counsel at Shell International Limited in London. Monika is a licensed attorney (adwokat) with over 25-years in practice. Prior to her in-house tenures she was in private practice, including at the offices of Miller, Canfield in Poland. She holds a Master of European Law degree (LLM cum laude) from the Law Department of the College of Europe in Brugge (Belgium). Monika has also served as Co-Chair of the Steering Committee of the Forum on International Privacy Law and a member of the IAPP European Advisory Board. Monika is also hexalingual: she speaks English, French, Spanish, Italian, Polish and Portuguese fluently.

 

Contributions by Monika Tomczak-Gorlikowska

  • Digital Regulation: Benefits, Limits and Uncertainties of Regulatory Cooperation
    Forum Speaker at Navigate: Digital Policy Leadership Retreat 2025
  • Scaling Toqan — A Case Study of Global Deployment of an LLM and Agent Assistant
    Speaker at IAPP AI Governance Global Europe 2025
  • Do Bots Dream? Navigating Identity, Privacy and Authenticity in the Age of AI
    Speaker at IAPP AI Governance Global Europe 2025
  • Navigating the India Way: Operational Impacts of India's DPDPA
    Speaker at IAPP Global Privacy Summit 2025
  • Extending your Company's Privacy Program in India - Challenges and Opportunities
    Speaker at IAPP Europe Data Protection Congress 2024
  • The Monsoon Has Arrived. India New Digital Personal Data Protection Act (DPDPA)
    Speaker at IAPP Global Privacy Summit 2024
  • Quo Vadis, CPO? An Evolving Role in Changing Times
    Speaker at IAPP Data Protection Intensive: UK 2024
  • Member of Board of Directors 2024 - 2028
  • Moving Beyond Data Localization: Enabling Trusted Cross-Border Data Flows
    Speaker at IAPP Europe Data Protection Congress 2023
  • Here Comes Cyber! European Cyber Strategy and Its Implication for Privacy
    Speaker at IAPP Europe Data Protection Congress 2023
  • Advertising in Digital Spaces: Behavioral Ads, Dark Patterns and the Metaverse
    Speaker at IAPP Data Protection Intensive: Nederland 2023
  • AI Isn't Taking Over the World, Just Our World!
    Speaker at IAPP Global Privacy Summit 2023
  • Women Leading Privacy: A Different Perspective on Privacy Career
    Speaker at Virtual Poland KnowledgeNet: 7 March 2023
  • Privacy and Antitrust: Data’s Mom and Dad Just Got Engaged
    Speaker at IAPP Europe Data Protection Congress 2022
  • I Say "High," You Say "Low" — Risk Assessments Under the Proposed AI Act
    Speaker at IAPP Europe Data Protection Congress 2022
  • Building a Global Privacy Programme That Performs
    Speaker at IAPP Europe Data Protection Congress 2022
  • Building Privacy Technology into Your Programme
    Speaker at IAPP Data Protection Intensive: Nederland 2022
  • Artificial Intelligence Regulation Draft — What To Make Of It In 5 Points!
    Speaker at IAPP Europe Data Protection Congress 2021
  • "Under Construction" — How to Build a Global Privacy Workforce
    Speaker at IAPP Europe Data Protection Congress 2021