About the IAPP

Ambassador Karen Kornbluh leads the Digital Innovation and Democracy Initiative at the German Marshall Fund of the US. She served as Ambassador to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, the global economic standards organization in Paris. 

She was previously Barack Obama’s Senate policy director and served in senior positions at the U.S. Treasury Department and Federal Communications Commission. She was Executive Vice President of global data firm Nielsen. 

Ambassador Kornbluh appears widely in the media and chairs the boards of both Radio Free Europe and the Open Technology Fund. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.