Past IAPP Award Winners

IAPP Vanguard Award

2023
EMEA: Ernst Oliver Wilhelm, CIPP/E, CIPM, CIPT, FIP
Asia: Lanx Goh, CIPP/A, CIPP/E, CIPP/US, CIPM
Oceania: Annelies Moens, CIPP/E, CIPT, FIP
North America: Peggy Eisenhauer, CIPP/US
Latin America: Marcos Semola, CIPM

2022
EMEA: Dan Or-Hof, CIPP/E, CIPP/US, CIPM, FIP
Asia: Abhishek Tiwari, CIPP/E, CIPM, FIP
Oceania: Anna Johnston, CIPP/E, CIPM, FIP
North America: Barbara Lawler, CIPP/US, CIPM, FIP
Latin America: Pablo Palazzi

2021
Kirk Nahra, CIPP/US

2020
Naomi Lefkovitz

2019
Bojana Bellamy, CIPP/E 

2018
Henriette Tielmans

2017
Brendon Lynch, CIPP/US

2016
Scott Taylor, CIPP/US

2015
Christopher Wolf

2014
David Hoffman, CIPP/US, Director of Security Policy and Global Privacy Officer, Intel Corporation

2013
Mary Ellen Callahan, CIPP/US, Founder and Chair, Jenner & Block Privacy and Information Governance Practice and former Chief Privacy Officer, Department of Homeland Security

2012
Sandy R. Hughes, CIPP/US

2011
Jennifer Barrett Glasgow, CIPP/US

2010
Jennifer Stoddart, Privacy Commissioner of Canada

2009
Michelle Dennedy, CIPP/US, Chief Governance Officer, Cloud Computing, Sun Microsystems, Inc.

2008
Marty Abrams, Executive Director of the Center for Information Policy Leadership at Hunton & Williams

2007
Harriet Pearson, CIPP/US, Vice President of Regulatory Policy and Chief Privacy Officer, IBM Corporation

2006
Chris Zoladz, CIPP/US, Vice President, Information Protection, Marriott International

2005
Nuala O'Connor Kelly, CIPP/G, Chief Privacy Leader and Senior Counsel, General Electric Company

2004
Agnes Bundy Scanlan, CIPP/US, Regulatory Relations Executive, Bank of America

 

The IAPP Privacy Leadership Award

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

 

Diversity in Privacy Award

2023
Stephen Reynolds, CIPP/US

 

Privacy Innovation Awards

Please note: As of January 2024, the Privacy Innovation awards have been retired. Please contact awards@iapp.org with questions.

2023
360 Privacy is a winner for 360 Privacy's Delete Program aims to protect the digital identity, reputation, and security of individuals and families.
EU Cloud Code of Conduct and SCOPE Europe for the Third Country Transfers Moduleinitiative.
Finalists in the Americas (including Mexico) region: Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario, Truyo
Finalists in the EMEA/APAC region: Syntonym, Omnisient

2022
Dechert LLP is a winner for Flo Health’s “Anonymous Mode.”
Amurabi and King for creating an engaging, fun and accessible privacy notice experience.
Finalists in the Americas (including Mexico) region: Privado Inc., Private AI and Walgreens Boost Alliance
Finalists in the EMEA/APAC region: ERNIEAPP LTD, ImmuniWeb SA and Statice

2021
The Network for Public Health Law
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2020
Securiti
TELUS Communications, Inc.
Deloitte Legal, B.V.

2019
SAP
Vodafone

2018
GoDaddy
Trūata

2017
Teleperformance (Operations)
Allianz (Operations)
RADAR (Technology)

2016
Vanguard (Large Organization)
Nymity (Small Organization)
Protenus (Technology)

2015
Intuit (Large Organization)
Telesign (Small Organization)
AirWatch by VMware (Technology)

2014
University Health Network (Large Organization)
Canada Health Infoway (Small Organization)
ID Experts (Technology)

2013
Johnson & Johnson (Large Organization)
Canadian Primary Care Sentinel Surveillance Network (Small Organization)
Considerati (Technology)

2012
Vodafone Group Services Limited (Large Organization)
Alberta Pensions Services Corporation (Small Organization)
CSR - Compliance Solutions and Resources (Technology)
Oculis Labs Inc. (Technology)

2011
Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. (Large Organization)
Ontario Telemedicine Network (Small Organization)
Heartland Payment Systems (Technology)

2010
Symcor, Inc. (Large Organization)
Minnesota Privacy Consultants (MPC) (Small Organization)
Microsoft Corporation (Technology)

2009
Barclays Bank (Large Organization)
Graduate Management Admission Council (GMAC) (Small Organization)
IBM Research and Stanford University (Technology)

2008
The Victorian Department of Justice (Large Organization)
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (Small Organization)
PRIME: Privacy and Identity Management for Europe (Technology)

2007
Eli Lilly & Company (Large Organization)
The California Office of Privacy Protection (Small Organization)
Novell, Inc. (Technology)

2006
Royal Philips Electronics and General Electric Corp. (Large Organization)
ATB Financial (Small Organization)
Voltage Security, Inc. (Technology)

2005
Sprint Nextel (Large Organization)
Ontario Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner (Small Organization)
Watchfire (Technology)

2004
Microsoft (Private Sector)
U.S. Postal Service (Public Sector/Non-profit)

2003
eBay (Private Sector)
Office of the CIO, Government of Alberta (Public Sector/Non-profit)