About the IAPP

Yan Luo

Covington & Burling

Partner

Yan Luo is a partner at Covington & Burling LLP, splitting time between the firm’s Beijing and Palo Alto offices. She advises clients on a broad range of regulatory matters in connection with data privacy and cybersecurity, as well as national security, in the United States, EU, and China.

Yan has significant experience assisting multinational companies navigating the rapidly-evolving Chinese cybersecurity and data privacy rules. Her work includes high-stakes compliance advice on strategic issues such as data localization and cross border data transfer, as well as data protection advice in the context of strategic transactions. She also advises leading Chinese technology companies on global data governance issues and on compliance matters in major jurisdictions such as the European Union and the United States. Yan has also written extensively on new Chinese developments related to artificial intelligence and other new technologies.

Contributions by Yan Luo

• Global AI Governance: Strategies for cross-border compliance
  Speaker at In-Person San Francisco KnowledgeNet: 2 Oct. 2024
• Decoding AI Terms of Service: Governance, Liability, and the User Experience
  Speaker at IAPP Privacy. Security. Risk. 2024
• APAC's Generative AI Landscape: A Tapestry of Adoption and Regulatory Quandaries
  Moderator at AI Governance Global 2024
• Bridging the Ethical AI Conversation: An Academic and Practitioner Dialogue
  Moderator at AI Governance Global 2023, an IAPP event
• How China's draft SCCs compare with EU SCCs
  The Privacy Advisor
• Top 5 operational impacts of China's PIPL — Part 5: International data transfers
  Westin Research Center
• China's key enforcement agencies and lessons learned from recent actions
  The Privacy Advisor
• The Future of Cross-Border Transfer of Personal and Non-Personal Data in China
  Web Conference Speaker
• Analyzing China's PIPL and how it compares to the EU's GDPR
  The Privacy Advisor
• The future of data localization and cross-border transfer in China: a unified framework or a patchwork of requirements?
  The Privacy Advisor
• China’s Personal Information Protection Law and Its Impact on Multinational Companies
  Speaker at Virtual Hong Kong KnowledgeNet: 17 June 2021