Natascha Gerlach

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Centre for Information Policy Leadership

Director of Privacy and Data Policy

Natascha Gerlach holds the position of Director of Privacy Policy for the Center of information Policy Leadership (CIPL) in Brussels. Her work is focused on a range of privacy and data related topics including cross-border data flows, AI, data ethics and data governance. Before joining CIPL, Natascha was a Senior Attorney with Cleary Gottlieb in their Brussels office, where she headed Cleary’s European eDiscovery group leveraging her experience in US eDiscovery by implementing new technologies and operationalizing the team. Natascha was also a senior member of Cleary’s Data Privacy group and advised clients on a wide array of data privacy issues, with a special focus on the cross section of international discovery and data protection. Natascha is Chair Emerita of The Sedona Conference Working Group 6 on International Electronic Information Management, Discovery and Disclosure (WG6) Steering Committee. She is on the advisory board for the Georgetown Law AEDI and has been on the ABA CBI Steering Committee since its inception in 2017. Natascha publishes regularly on data protection topics and is a frequent speaker at relevant conferences.

 

Contributions by Natascha Gerlach

  • Children Online: Reconciling the Rules
    Moderator at IAPP Europe Data Protection Congress 2023
  • Not just for AI: In-Depth Case Studies for Privacy-Enhancing Technologies
    Moderator at IAPP Europe Data Protection Congress 2023
  • PETs: A New Best Friend for the Privacy Professional?
    Moderator at IAPP Global Privacy Summit 2023
  • The case of the EU AI Act: Why we need to return to a risk-based approach
    Privacy Perspectives
  • PETs: A New Best Friend for the Privacy Professional?
    Speaker at IAPP Data Protection Intensive: UK 2023