Gabriela Zanfir-Fortuna

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Future of Privacy Forum

Vice President, Global Privacy

Dr. Gabriela Zanfir-Fortuna is Vice President for Global Privacy for the Washington DC-based Future of Privacy Forum, a global non-profit present in Brussels, Tel Aviv, Singapore and Nairobi, where she leads the work on global privacy and data protection developments. She is also an associated researcher for the LSTS Center of Vrije Universiteit Brussel and a guest lecturer for Maastricht University’s European Centre on Privacy and Cybersecurity. Dr. Zanfir-Fortuna is a member of the Reference Panel of the Global Privacy Assembly and was a member of the Executive Committee of ACM's Fairness, Accountability and Transparency (FaccT) Conference (2021-2022). She has experience in working for the European Data Protection Supervisor in Brussels, dealing with enforcement, litigation and policy matters, and contributed to the work of the Article 29 Working Party. She holds a PhD in law with a thesis on the rights of the data subject from the perspective of their adjudication in civil law, and an LLM in Human Rights. She published a comprehensive volume on the rights of the data subjects in 2015 (Protectia datelor personale. Drepturile persoanei vizate", C.H. Beck, Bucharest, 2015), and is one of the co-authors of "GDPR: A commentary", Oxford University Press, 2020.

 

Contributions by Gabriela Zanfir-Fortuna

  • Artificial Intelligence Across Borders
    Speaker at IAPP Europe Data Protection Congress 2024
  • Women in Privacy Vol. 2
    Speaker at Virtual Leipzig KnowledgeNet: 2 July 2024
  • Brussels’ Effect 2.0
    Speaker at AI Governance Global 2024
  • Innovative Regulation for the Digital Economy: A fireside chat with Singapore’s IMDA
    Speaker at In-Person Washington, DC KnowledgeNet: 10 Oct. 2023
  • AI Regulation: Privacy and chatbots
    Speaker at Virtual Special Joint KnowledgeNet: May 2, 2023
  • Great Expectations: Will the EU’s Data Strategy Laws Change the Digital World?
    Moderator at IAPP Global Privacy Summit 2023
  • Global Privacy State of Play
    Speaker at IAPP Europe Data Protection Congress 2022
  • The New Enforcement Battleground: Lawful Grounds for Processing
    Speaker at IAPP Europe Data Protection Congress 2021
  • Modeling the Windstorm to Predict Tomorrow’s Privacy Climate
    Modeling the Windstorm to Predict Tomorrow’s Privacy Climate
  • 'Schrems II' and Brexit Discussion
    Speaker at Virtual Detroit KnowledgeNet: March 3, 2021
  • Speaker at IAPP Privacy. Security. Risk. 2020 - Canceled
  • Personal Data Transfers After The CJEU 'Schrems II' Decision
    Speaker at Virtual Cork and Dublin KnowledgeNet: 30 July 2020
  • The Schrems II Aftermath: A Deep Dive into SCCs
    Moderator at IAPP Summit Sessions 2020 Online
  • From Data Protection in Brussels to Privacy in the US
    Speaker at IAPP Summit Sessions 2020 Online
  • Data Protection by Design: From Zero to Hero
    Speaker at IAPP Europe Data Protection Congress 2019