Bojana Bellamy, CIPP/E

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Centre for Information Policy Leadership

President

Bojana is the President of Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP’s Centre for Information Policy Leadership (CIPL), a preeminent global privacy and data policy think tank located in Washington, DC, London and Brussels. At CIPL, Bojana works with global business and technology leaders, regulators, policy and lawmakers to shape global data policy and practice, and develop thought leadership and best practices for responsible and trusted use of data in the 4th Industrial Revolution. With more than 25 years of experience and deep knowledge of global data privacy and cybersecurity law, compliance and policy, Bojana has a proven industry record in designing strategy, and building and managing data privacy compliance programs. Bojana was the recipient of the 2019 International Association of Privacy Professionals’ (IAPP) Vanguard Award, which recognizes privacy professionals for outstanding leadership, knowledge and creativity in the field of privacy and data protection. In 2021 Politico recognized Bojana in its inaugural list of top Tech28 people shaping digital policy and technology in Europe and beyond. She was also one of 20 privacy experts to participate in the transatlantic “Privacy Bridge Project” from 2014-2015 that sought to develop practical solutions to bridge the gap between European and US privacy regimes.

Currently, Bojana sits on a number of advisory and industry boards, including the Mercedes-Benz Advisory Board for Integrity and Sustainability, the Internet Commission Advisory Board, the OECD’s Privacy Guidelines Expert Group and the Thomson Reuters’ Practical Law Data Protection Consultation Board, as well as the Advisory Board of the Tech, Law and Security Program (TLS) at the American University Washington College of Law. She also was selected as a member of the Global Privacy Assembly Reference Panel. Bojana participates in many industry groups and is a regular speaker at corporate and governmental events and conferences.  

Prior to joining CIPL, Bojana served for 12 years as the Global Director of Data Privacy at Accenture, and worked for eight years as Principal Consultant with Privacy Laws & Business consulting and auditing projects for private and public sector clients in the UK and abroad.

 

Contributions by Bojana Bellamy

  • Getting Companies To Embrace a Holistic Data Strategy
    Speaker at IAPP Global Privacy Summit 2023
  • Getting Companies to Embrace a Holistic Data Strategy
    Speaker at IAPP Data Protection Intensive: UK 2023
  • International data transfers: Time to rethink binding corporate rules
    Privacy Perspectives
  • Opening General Session
    Speaker at IAPP Data Protection Intensive: UK 2023
  • From Compliance to Strategy: Data as a Board Level Issue & Business Opportunity
    Speaker at IAPP Europe Data Protection Congress 2022
  • Benefit from the Cloud While Protecting Fundamental Rights
    Speaker at IAPP Europe Data Protection Congress 2022
  • Policy & Progress: Discussion with the European Data Protection Supervisor
    Speaker at IAPP Europe Data Protection Congress 2022
  • China PIPL: Effective Strategies for Compliance
    Speaker at IAPP Asia Privacy Forum 2022
  • A Commissioners’ Chat: Priorities for the ICO & BfDI
    Moderator at IAPP Global Privacy Summit 2022
  • Privacy and Security Considerations in Competition
    Speaker at IAPP Europe Data Protection Congress 2021
  • Privacy Programmes: Return on Investment
    Speaker at IAPP Europe Data Protection Congress 2021
  • The Data Protection Sandbox: A Driver of Innovative Regulation
    Web Conference Speaker
  • Evolving Data Privacy Laws and Related Ecosystems, and Their Impact on Security and Governance
    Speaker at Virtual Pune KnowledgeNet: 30 January 2021
  • Linking Privacy Programmes and Organisational Accountability
    Web Conference Speaker
  • Moderator at IAPP Data Protection Intensive: UK 2020 - Cancelled
  • Implementing Accountability: Privacy Governance Approaches for Today & Tomorrow
    Speaker at IAPP Asia Privacy Forum 2019
  • Constructive Engagement vs. Enforcement: Initial DPA Experiences Under the GDPR
    Moderator at Global Privacy Summit 2019
  • GDPR Compliance: Convince Customers, Partners, and the Board You Are Compliant
    Speaker at IAPP Data Protection Intensive: UK 2019
  • Innovative and Regulatory Oversight
    Speaker at IAPP Data Protection Intensive: UK 2019
  • The Future of ‘Privacy as the New Normal’: What Will It Look Like?
    Speaker at IAPP Europe Data Protection Congress 2018
  • APEC-EU Work on Certifications: Using CBPRs to Facilitate GDPR Compliance
    Moderator at IAPP Europe Data Protection Congress 2018
  • Merge or Map: Synergies Between Privacy and Security Programmes
    Speaker at IAPP Europe Data Protection Congress 2018
  • A letter to the unsung hero of the GDPR
    Privacy Perspectives