About the IAPP

Sebastião Barros Vale serves as the EU Senior Policy Counsel at the Future of Privacy Forum, where he is following and analyzing privacy and data protection on a European and national level. Sebastião completed a traineeship at the Cabinet of EU Commissioner Věra Jourová, where he contributed to the 1st Annual Review of the EU-US Privacy Shield and to the Commission Guidance on the applicability of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Before joining FPF, he worked as an in-house privacy expert at Johnson & Johnson. Sebastião holds an LL.M in EU Law from the College of Europe (2016, Belgium), where he wrote his thesis on alternative international data transfer mechanisms after the invalidation of the EU-US Safe Harbour Decision by the Court of Justice of the European Union.