About the IAPP

Sofia Edvardsen has a deep interest in law, technology and business strategy, and engages passionately in understanding and explaining the world's emerging legal regulatory landscape for technologies. How can businesses prepare today for the regulations of the future? What should be done short term to position the industry for the long term, considering what rules then will apply?

With extensive experience as an attorney, Edvardsen has worked closely with a wide range of organizations. That enables her to provide practical and realistic solutions to emerging legal challenges, also aiming to help make the right decisions based on an understanding of what is possible today and what the future might bring. She is the founding partner of Sharp Cookie Advisors, a technology and digitization law firm based in Stockholm, Sweden. In her role, Edvardsen represents sellers and buyers of cloud computing (IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS models), software licensing and other technology transactions.

Edvardsen also holds the role of data protection officer for global companies and start-ups in the e-health, adtech and e-commerce fields. In addition, she provides services to data protection programs for health care providers and companies in media, marketing, retail and tech.

Edvardsen is also chair of the IAPP KnowledgeNet Swedish chapter. In that role, she facilitates the development of privacy-enhancing practices for the Swedish industry and the public sector.

Edvardsen graduated from the School of Business, Economics and Law at the University of Gothenburg and has a degree from Chalmers University of Technology. She is a certified privacy professional and holds a CIPP/E certification. She has served as in-house legal counsel of a global telecom company, in-house legal counsel at a technology investment fund and as a lawyer in the Stockholm and London offices of Baker McKenzie law firm.