About the IAPP

Chris Foreman is the Chief Privacy Officer of the US-based Merck & Co., Inc., known outside of Canada and the US as Merck Sharp & Dohme. He is a lawyer, having spent 20 years in the Company’s Office of General Counsel, before joining the Global Privacy Office in Sept. 2018. Based in Brussels, Chris has been Chief Privacy Officer since August 2023. He advocates the Company’s interests externally in several fora, including EFPIA’s Data Governance Working Group, the Information Accountability Foundation, CIPL, IPMPC and dplegal. Chris has spoken widely at privacy and legal conferences, webinars and roundtables on topics including the complexities of international data transfers between the Europe and the United States, and the European Health Data Space.