About the IAPP

Yan Luo

Covington & Burling

Partner

Yan Luo is a partner at the Beijing office of Covington & Burling LLP. 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 regularly contributes to the development of data privacy and cybersecurity rules and standards in China. 

Contributions by Yan Luo

• 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
• Transparency and Ethical Use of Artificial Intelligence: The Road Ahead
  Moderator at Global Privacy Summit 2019
• What Keeps You Up at Night? CPOs Talk Business in China and China Going Global
  Moderator at Global Privacy Summit 2018
• Go with the Flow: Cross-Border Transfers from a Chinese Perspective
  Speaker at IAPP Asia Privacy Forum 2017