About the IAPP

Kenneth Propp teaches European Union Law at Georgetown University Law Center, and serves as Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Europe Center in Washington, D.C. He also is Senior Research Fellow for the Cross-Border Data Forum. From 2016-2018, he was director of trade policy for BSA | The Software Alliance, an association of major software companies. From 2011-2015, he served as Legal Counselor at the US Mission to the European Union in Brussels, Belgium, where he led U.S. government engagement with the EU on digital and privacy issues. Prior to that, he was as a senior lawyer in the Office of the Legal Adviser, U.S. Department of State, specializing in law enforcement and intelligence, and economic and business matters, and also served as legal adviser to the US Embassy in Germany. He holds a J.D. from Harvard Law School and a bachelor’s degree from Amherst College.