About the IAPP

Travis LeBlanc is global co-chair of the cyber/data/privacy practice at Cooley LLP in Washington, D.C. and San Francisco. He is also a Presidentially-nominated and Senate-confirmed Member of the U.S. Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board. LeBlanc was previously the Federal Communications Commission’s Enforcement Bureau Chief and earlier served as senior advisor to California Attorney General Kamala Harris, where he oversaw California’s complex litigation and policy in areas such as high-tech crime, cybersecurity, and privacy. He also worked in the U.S. Department of Justice’s Office of Legal Counsel and was appointed in 2017 as an arbitrator of disputes under the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield Framework. He currently serves on the boards of the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP), Center for Democracy & Technology (CDT) and the advisory boards of the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC), The Future of Privacy Forum (FPF), and Center for Information Technology Policy (CITP). A.B., Princeton University; M.P.A., Harvard University; J.D., Yale Law School; LL.M., University of Cambridge.