About the IAPP

Daniela is the founder and executive director of FABIAN PRIVACY LEGAL, a law firm specialized in international, European and Swiss data protection laws, governance, risk management and program implementation. Daniela is an attorney at law and Certified Privacy Professional CIPP/E, CIPM, FIP with over 25 years of legal and practical experience in data protection, labor law, risk and program management, security and related matters. She advises multinational companies from various industries in the EU, Switzerland and the US on the evaluation, development and implementation of data protection strategies, governance models and global privacy programs as well as data transfer mechanisms with a pragmatic approach. Before commencing her own business in 2015, Daniela held various positions at Novartis, including Global Head Data Privacy, responsible for setting the Group privacy strategic direction and for building, implementing and overseeing the global privacy function and group-wide privacy management program and Group Binding Corporate Rules. 

Daniela is a frequent speaker at conferences and member of various associations: Member of the European Advisory Board of IAPP and past Co-chair of the IAPP KnowledgeNet Switzerland, founder and chair of a Privacy Expert Roundtable (Life Sciences) in Switzerland; Member of CyAN: Cybersecurity and Cybercrime Advisor Network and fellow at CIPL: Centre for Information Policy Leadership.