About the IAPP

Susan Cooper is Vice President and DPO at Meta, where she leads teams within Meta’s Product Compliance and Privacy Organization focused on responding to Meta’s global regulatory obligations and serves as Meta Inc.’s Data Protection Officer. Susan joined Meta in 2011; prior to her current role, she spent ten years leading product and privacy counseling teams that advised Meta on the development, launch and marketing of its products. Before joining Meta, Susan was Senior Advertising and Marketing Counsel at Yahoo. From 2003-2007, Susan served as Staff Attorney at the Federal Trade Commission, where she worked in both the FTC’s Division of Privacy and Identity Protection enforcing privacy and consumer protection laws, and the Office of International Affairs, representing the Agency in various international forums, such as the OECD. While at the FTC, Susan supported work formulating FTC policy on privacy and security-related legislative and policy initiatives. Susan began her career at Mintz Levin in Washington DC working on privacy, regulatory and litigation matters.