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Research Fellows

Peter Swire

Peter Swire
RESEARCH DIRECTOR

Georgia Tech Scheller College of Business Faculty Profile
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Georgia Tech IISP Cross-Border Requests for Data Project

Peter Swire is the J.Z. Liang Chair in the Georgia Tech School of Cybersecurity and Privacy, and Professor of Law and Ethics in the Georgia Tech Scheller College of Business at the Georgia Institute of Technology.  He is senior counsel with the law firm of Alston & Bird, LLP. Under President Clinton, Swire was Chief Counselor for Privacy in the U.S. Office of Management and Budget. Swire served as one of five members of President Obama’s Review Group on Intelligence and Communications Technology. Prior to that, he was co-chair of the global Do Not Track process for the World Wide Web Consortium. In 2015, the International Association of Privacy Professionals awarded Swire its annual Privacy Leadership Award. In 2018, Swire was named an Andrew Carnegie Fellow for his project on “Protecting Human Rights and National Security in the New Age of Data Nationalism.

Theodore Christakis

Theodore Christakis
EUROPEAN RESEARCH DIRECTOR

Universite Grenoble Alpes Faculty Profile
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Theodore Christakis is Professor of International Law at the Université Grenoble Alpes, a Member of the Institut Universitaire de France and of the French National Digital Council. He is director of the Centre for International Security and European Studies and a deputy Director of the Grenoble Alpes Data Institute. He has published or co-edited 9 books and is the author or co-author of more than 65 articles and book chapters that focus on public international law, international security law, international and European protection of human rights, cyber security law and data protection. He has served as Legal Counsel for governments, international organisations and the private sector.

DeBrae Kennedy-Mayo

DeBrae Kennedy-Mayo
SENIOR FELLOW

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DeBrae Kennedy-Mayo is a Research Faculty Member at the Scheller College of Business at the Georgia Institute of Technology. She works as part of a small team who research, write, and teach on legal and policy issues concerning privacy and cybersecurity. Peter Swire and Kennedy-Mayo are the co-authors of the 2020 edition of U.S. PRIVATE SECTOR PRIVACY: LAW AND PRACTICE FOR INFORMATION PRIVACY PROFESSIONALS – the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP) book that is used by professionals who are preparing for the IAPP certification exam on U.S. private-sector privacy and that now serves as the textbook for Georgia Tech’s online privacy class entitled Privacy for Professionals. With her co-authors, Kennedy-Mayo has written on cross-border issues focusing on the U.S., Europe, and India. Prior to her work at Georgia Tech, Kennedy-Mayo was employed as both an Assistant Attorney General for the State of Georgia and an Assistant District Attorney. Prior to that, Kennedy-Mayo clerked for the Honorable William Howard, Sr.

Kenneth Propp

Kenneth Propp
SENIOR FELLOW

Kenneth Propp teaches European Union Law at Georgetown University Law Center, and is a Senior Fellow with the Europe Center at the Atlantic Council in Washington, D.C.  From 2016-2018, he was director of trade policy for BSA | The Software Alliance, an association of major software companies.  From 2011-2015, he served as legal counselor at the U.S. Mission to the European Union in Brussels, Belgium, where he led U.S. government engagement with the EU on digital and privacy issues.  Prior to that, he served as a senior lawyer in the Office of the Legal Adviser, U.S. Department of State, specializing in law enforcement and intelligence, and economic and business matters. He has published in the Oxford Journal of International Data Privacy Law and the Harvard International Law Journal, and is a periodic contributor to the Lawfare blog.


Samm Sacks
SENIOR FELLOW FOR ASIA

Samm Sacks is a Senior Fellow for Asia with the Cross-Border Data Forum. She is a Senior Fellow with New America’s International Security Program and the Yale Law School Paul Tsai China Center. She is writing a book (forthcoming from the University of Chicago Press) on U.S.-China relations and and the geopolitics of data flows. Her research examines China’s information and communications technology (ICT) policies, with a focus on China’s cybersecurity legal system, the U.S.-China technology relationship, data privacy and cross-border data transfers. Previously, Sacks launched the industrial cyber business for Siemens in Asia and worked as an analyst and Chinese linguist with the national security community. She has published in outlets including The Atlantic, Foreign Affairs, MIT Tech Review, Lawfare, and Slate. She testifies regularly before Congress on China’s technology and cyber policies. Sacks also advises corporate clients on China’s technology regulations. A former Fulbright scholar in Beijing, Sacks reads and speaks Mandarin.

 

 

Joe Jones
SENIOR EXTERNAL ADVISOR

Joe Jones is a Senior External Advisor with the Cross-Border Data Forum. He is the Director for Research & Insights at the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP), the world’s largest global information privacy community. From 2018-2022, he served as a senior official in the UK Government, where his responsibilities included leading international data policy work with the EU, United States, and many other governments. He also represented the UK Government on issues relating to international data transfers, trusted government access to data, and digital trade in various fora such as the OECD, G7, and Global Cross-Border Privacy Rules Forum. Prior to that, he worked as an attorney at Covington & Burling LLP, where he advised clients on international data protection, cyber security, and digital regulation. He has published in Lawfare, European Public Law, Fordham International Law Journal, Judicial Review, and the European Intellectual Property Review. He is quoted in many national and international media outlets, including the Wall Street Journal, the Telegraph, the Register, and Politico (which named him on their 2022 list of the top 28 “power players behind Europe’s tech revolution”).
 
 
 

Richard Salgado

VISITING FELLOW ON SECURITY AND SURVEILLANCE

Stanford Faculty Profile

Richard Salgado is a lecturer at Stanford Law School, an Advisory Board Member of the Tech Law and Security Program at American University, and a Visiting Fellow for Surveillance & Security with the Cross-Border Data Forum. Richard is also the Principal Member of Salgado Strategies LLC, and serves the United Nations as a Senior Consultant. Richard was Google’s Director of Law Enforcement & Information Security for 13 years, and a federal prosecutor before that.

Mona Giacometti

Mona Giacometti

UCLouvain Faculty Profile

Mona Giacometti is a professor of criminal law at Université Libre de Bruxelles (Belgium). She obtained this position in October 2023. She is also a guest professor at UCLouvain. Her current research focuses on technological developments in criminal law, both in terms of new online criminal phenomena and in terms of investigative techniques that are being developed on the Internet or thanks to the cooperation of online service providers. Between 2021 and 2023, she carried out post-doctoral research as part of the @ntidote project on cyberviolence: defining borders on permissibility and accountability. She obtained her PhD in 2020 (supervisor: Prof. Dr. Marie-Aude Beernaert). The topic of her doctoral research focused on the collection of electronic evidence in European context. She envisaged the construction of a model in the light of a new conception of state sovereignty. Her thesis has been published in 2023 (here). Mona regularly writes articles and contributions on subjects relating to criminal procedure and criminal law. She is also a member of the editorial boards of two Belgian Journals of Law (Journal des tribunaux and Revue de droit pénal et de criminologie). Besides her academic activities, Mona Giacometti is also a lawyer in the Belgian law firm “Amplitude”, and a member of the Brussels Bar since 2011. She focuses her practice on business criminal law.