About the IAPP

Yukiko is Senior Vice President, Assistant General Counsel, Privacy and Data Protection at Mastercard. She is the global privacy lead for Mastercard’s Core Payment, Commercial & New Payment Flows and Strategic Growth businesses.

Prior to joining Mastercard, Yukiko worked as a global privacy counsel for Standard Chartered Bank, director for international business planning at TransUnion and policy analyst at Alston & Bird and Hunton & Williams’s Center for Information Policy Leadership (CIPL).

Yukiko is qualified as a solicitor in England and Wales and holds IAPP’s CIPP/E, CIPM and CIPT certifications. She earned BA in Law from Sophia University in Tokyo, MA in International relations from the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), the Johns Hopkins University in Washington, D.C. and LLB (Hons) from the College of Law of England and Wales.