About the IAPP

Caroline Goulding is TikTok’s Data Protection Officer in Europe, leading the Office of the DPO function and serves as the Digital Markets Act (DMA) Compliance Officer for Bytedance, leading the DMA compliance function. She is part of the company’s Global Privacy and Regulatory Affairs leadership team.

Caroline currently sits on the IAPP European Advisory Board and PICCASO Advisory Board. Caroline has held previous roles on the Board of Directors for the Irish American Bar Association for Northern California; IAPP Women Leading Privacy Advisory Board Member; the Association of Compliance Officers of Ireland Data Protection and Information Security working group. Caroline is the Founder of the DPO Network for the global multinational software sector, serving as the first Chairperson and also regularly advises start-ups.

Previously she served as LinkedIn's first Data Protection Officer under the Microsoft umbrella and held roles in LinkedIn and eBay’s Trust & Safety teams covering a wide array of issues beyond data protection including IP, defamation, risk, fraud and content safety.