About the IAPP

Hugh Stevenson is Deputy Director for International Consumer Protection at the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), leading the team that coordinates the agency's international consumer protection and privacy work. He heads the U.S. delegation to the OECD’s consumer policy committee, and has served as the U.S. vice chair of the OECD working party on security and privacy in the digital economy.  He has participated in negotiating and implementing the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield Framework, and negotiations to revise the United Nations consumer guidelines, the OECD privacy guidelines, and the OECD guidelines on consumer protection in e-commerce.  He has worked in various other positions at the FTC, and has litigated for the FTC, for state government, and in private practice. Hugh, a Harvard Law School graduate, was a Kramer Fellow at Harvard during the 2005-06 academic year, and has co-taught comparative US-EU privacy law as an adjunct professor at Georgetown law school.