About the IAPP

Brendon Lynch is the Chief Privacy Officer of Microsoft Corporation, where he has global responsibility for Microsoft’s privacy governance program, including creating and implementing privacy policy across the company, influencing the creation of privacy and data protection technologies for customers and overseeing communication and engagement with external stakeholders.  The company’s privacy program has, for more than a decade, been focused on enabling innovation while building and maintaining customer trust through responsible data collection and use practices.



Before joining Microsoft in 2004, Brendon led the privacy and risk solutions business at software maker, Watchfire (now part of IBM). Prior to entering the software industry, Brendon spent nine years in Europe and North America with PricewaterhouseCoopers where he provided privacy and risk management consulting services.  

    

Brendon is a Certified Information Privacy Professional (CIPP) and holds a business degree from the University of Waikato, in his home country of New Zealand. Brendon was the 2017 recipient of the prestigious IAPP Privacy Vanguard Award, which recognizes a privacy professional who show exceptional leadership, knowledge and creativity in the field of privacy and data protection, whether through spearheading projects or programs that positively impact the profession or through achievements over the course of an entire tenure or career.



Brendon recently served as Chairman of the Board of Directors of the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP) the world’s largest association of privacy professionals globally.