About the IAPP

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

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

• 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
• From GDPR to CCPA and Beyond: Adapting a GDPR Programme for Global Privacy Laws
  Speaker at IAPP Europe Data Protection Congress 2019