About the IAPP

Nubiaa Shabaka serves as Vice President, Global Chief Cybersecurity Legal and Privacy Officer for Adobe. Her responsibilities encompass overseeing all aspects of Adobe’s global data protection and privacy programs (legal, compliance, operations, and engineering) and all legal aspects of Adobe’s global cybersecurity, information security, and information technology programs, on an enterprise-wide basis. Nubiaa also co-leads Adobe’s Data Governance program, is as a core team member in Adobe’s cross-functional AI governance team and sits on Adobe’s AI Ethics Review Board.

Immediately prior to joining Adobe in September 2022, Nubiaa served as Global Chief Cybersecurity Legal and Privacy Officer for AIG. Prior to joining AIG in January 2019, Nubiaa worked at Morgan Stanley for 11 years in similar privacy and security leadership roles, including Head of Global Cybersecurity Legal and Americas Head of Privacy and Data Protection.

Nubiaa started her career as a technology associate in Proskauer Rose's New York office. She earned a Bachelor of Arts, magna cum laude, from New York University and a JD from Harvard Law School. Nubiaa sits on the Boards of The Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts and NYU’s Center for Cybersecurity.