IAPP Leadership Award
The IAPP Leadership Award celebrates individuals who demonstrate an ongoing commitment to furthering and advancing the growth and visibility of the privacy, AI governance and cybersecurity law professions. Awards announced at the IAPP Global Summit each year.
2026 IAPP Leadership Award winners
The winner received a commemorative IAPP plaque honoring her achievements at the IAPP Global Privacy Summit 2026.
Alexandra Reeve Givens
President, CEO
Center for Democracy & Technology
Past IAPP Leadership Award winners
All winners received commemorative IAPP plaques honoring their achievements at the IAPP Global Summit.
2025: Andrew Serwin, CIPP/A, CIPP/C, CIPP/E, CIPP/G, CIPP/US, CIPM, CIPT, FIP; Jevan Hutson, AIGP, CIPP/A, CIPP/E, CIPP/US, CIPM, CIPT, FIP; Katelyn Ringrose, CIPP/E, CIPP/US, CIPM, FIP; Ron De Jesus, AIGP, CIPP/A, CIPP/C, CIPP/E, CIPP/US, CIPM, CIPT, FIP; Vinny DiGilio, CIPP/E, CIPM, CIPT; Cobun Zweifel-Keegan, CIPP/US, CIPM
2024 : Danielle Citron
2023: Jules Polonetsky, CIPP/US
2022: Liz Denham
2021: Nicole Wong
2019: Giovanni Buttarelli, European Data Protection Supervisor
2018: Lorrie Faith Cranor, CIPT, Co-director, MSIT-Privacy Engineering Masters Program, Carnegie Mellon University, Director, CyLab Usable Privacy and Security Laboratory
2017: Ted Dean, Former Acting Assistant Secretary for Industry & Analysis, ITA, U.S. Department of Commerce
Marc Groman, CIPP/US, Former Senior Advisor for Privacy, White House Office of Management and Budget
2016: Kenneth Bamberger, Professor of Law, University of California, Berkeley
Deirdre Mulligan, Assistant Professor, The School of Information, Co-Director of the Berkeley Center, University of California, Berkeley
2015: Peter Swire, CIPP/US, Huang Professor of Law and Ethics, Georgia Tech Scheller College of Business
2014: Julie Brill, U.S. Federal Trade Commissioner
2013: Daniel Weitzner, Director and Co-founder of the MIT CSAIL Decentralized Information Group
2012: Malcolm Crompton, Managing Director of Information Integrity Solutions Pty Ltd. and former Privacy Commissioner of Australia
2011: Center for Democracy and Technology
2010: Peter J. Hustinx, European Data Protection Supervisor
2009: Olympia J. Snowe, U.S. Senator, Maine
2008: Richard Thomas, Information Commissioner for the United Kingdom
2007: Deborah Platt Majoras, Chairman of the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC)
2006: David Brailer, National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, HHS
2005: Dr. Alan Westin, noted academic and author
2004: Orson Swindle, FTC Commissioner
2003: Peter Cullen, Chief Privacy Strategist, Microsoft Corporation