About the IAPP

Jim Dempsey is a senior policy advisor at the Stanford Program on Geopolitics, Technology and Governance. Previously, he was the Executive Director of the Berkeley Center for Law & Technology at the UC Berkeley law school, where he still teaches a course in cybersecurity law in the LLM program. From 1997 to 2014, Dempsey was at the Center for Democracy & Technology, where he held a number of leadership positions, including Executive Director. He also served, after Senate confirmation, as a Presidentially-appointed member of the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board, an independent federal agency charged with advising senior policymakers and overseeing the nation’s counterterrorism programs. Dempsey is co-author of "Cybersecurity Law Fundamentals" (2d ed. 2024), published by the IAPP.