Alexandra Ross, CIPP/E, CIPP/US, CIPM, CIPT, FIP, PLS

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Autodesk

Senior Director, Senior Data Protection, Use and Ethics Counsel

Alexandra Ross is Senior Director, Senior Data Protection, Use & Ethics Counsel at Autodesk, Inc. and an Advisor to BreachRx. Previously she was Senior Counsel at Paragon Legal and Associate General Counsel for Wal-Mart Stores. She is a certified information privacy professional (CIPP/US, CIPP/E, CIPM, CIPT, FIP and PLS) and practices in San Francisco, California. She holds a law degree from Hastings College of Law and a B.S. in theater from Northwestern University. Alexandra is a recipient of the 2019 Bay Area Corporate Counsel Award – Privacy.

Alexandra launched The Privacy Guru blog in 2014 and has published an ebook Privacy for Humans (available on Amazon and iTunes).

 

Contributions by Alexandra Ross

  • Member of Research Advisory Board 2025 - 2026
  • Global AI Governance: Strategies for cross-border compliance
    Speaker at In-Person San Francisco KnowledgeNet: 2 Oct. 2024
  • You Want Proof? Best Practices for Documenting Your Privacy Governance Program
    Speaker at IAPP Privacy. Security. Risk. 2024
  • Roadmap to a Unified State Privacy Law Compliance Program
    Speaker at IAPP Global Privacy Summit 2023
  • Privacy Bar Section Forum
    Forum Speaker at IAPP Global Privacy Summit 2023
  • Keeping Pace with Privacy: Staying on Track to Stay on Top
    Speaker at IAPP Privacy. Security. Risk. 2022
  • Managing Cyber Crises: Emerging Security Threats & Best Practices for Response
    Speaker at IAPP Privacy. Security. Risk. 2022
  • Evaluating Algorithms: Incorporating Privacy and Ethics into AI/ML Projects
    Speaker at IAPP Global Privacy Summit 2022
  • Building a Global Privacy Program That Performs
    Speaker at IAPP Global Privacy Summit 2022
  • Building a Data Ethics Program to Enable Trusted Data Practices
    Speaker at IAPP Privacy. Security. Risk. 2021
  • Security and Privacy: The Yin and Yang of Effective Enterprise Data Governance
    Web Conference Speaker
  • What the world of sports teaches us about incident preparedness and response
    The Privacy Advisor
  • Web Conference Speaker
  • Member of Privacy Bar Section Advisory Board 2021 - 2022
  • ERM 2.0: Driving Business Strategy and Operations in Alignment with Privacy
    Web Conference Speaker
  • Speaker at IAPP Privacy. Security. Risk. 2020 - Canceled
  • Speaker at IAPP Privacy. Security. Risk. 2020 - Canceled
  • Speaker at IAPP Global Privacy Summit 2020 - Canceled