About the IAPP

Alex van der Wolk

Morrison Foerster

Global Co-Chair Privacy, Data Security, Partner

Alex van der Wolk is the co-chair of Morrison & Foerster’s Global Privacy & Data Security Practice. Alex advises global companies on their most complex data protection strategy and compliance governing all aspects of information management. He helps clients develop privacy strategies for digital transformations, industrial IoT, telematics, Big Data, commercial and marketing programs, and data analytics. Alex has particular experience assisting clients with structuring their approach to data privacy in specialized areas such as health-tech, agro-tech and ad-tech. He is also often called upon to head crisis management teams for clients facing investigations by regulators and data protection authorities, as well as responding to cybersecurity incidents. Alex is a regular guest lecturer at the Tilburg Institute for Law, Technology, and Society of Tilburg University, and at the University of Amsterdam.

Contributions by Alex van der Wolk

• Here Comes Cyber! European Cyber Strategy and Its Implication for Privacy
  Speaker at IAPP Europe Data Protection Congress 2023
• Jurisprudentiebespreking: de praktische impact van recente uitspraken
  Speaker at IAPP Data Protection Intensive: Nederland 2023
• Operationalizing Data Ethics: Where Form and Function Meet
  Speaker at IAPP Global Privacy Summit 2023
• Privacy and Antitrust: Data’s Mom and Dad Just Got Engaged
  Speaker at IAPP Europe Data Protection Congress 2022
• AI and HR: How to Avoid Getting in Each Other’s Crosshairs
  Speaker at IAPP Europe Data Protection Congress 2022
• Operating the U.S. Cloud Under Schrems II
  Operating the U.S. Cloud Under Schrems II
• International Data Protection Update
  Speaker at IAPP Data Protection Intensive: Nederland 2022
• Dodging the one-stop shop
  Privacy Perspectives
• Data Transfers Post-Brexit — Keep Calm and Transfer Safely
  Speaker at IAPP Europe Data Protection Congress 2021
• Why it is unlikely the announced supplemental SCCs will materialize
  Privacy Perspectives
•  Why the EDPB should avoid torpedoing BCRs for processors
  Privacy Perspectives
• Will the EU become an information island?
  Privacy Perspectives
• Tell a friend — but only with your friend’s consent
  Privacy Tracker
• Speaker at IAPP Global Privacy Summit 2020 - Canceled