Vice President / Senior Director of Policy and Consulting

The Centre for Information Policy Leadership (CIPL) at Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP is a leading global privacy and data policy think and do tank working at the intersection of law, policy and technology, with a membership comprising more than 85 multinational companies across a broad range of industry sectors. Since being founded in 2001, we have served as a trusted partner of business leaders, regulators and policymakers developing best practices, thought leadership and solutions for privacy, data and digital policy, law, and compliance. CIPL:

• INFORMS via publications, member events and public fora;
• CONNECTS global industry and government leaders;
• SHAPES the future of data policy and strategy; and
• CREATES innovative solutions and elevates best practices.
  
  

CIPL’s leadership and staff are globally recognized data privacy thought leaders. They include former senior public and private sector professionals with extensive global and national experience in developing, interpreting, implementing, and enforcing laws, policies, and corporate privacy programs relevant to the data economy.

CIPL is looking for a Vice President / Senior Director of Policy and Consulting to join our team in our Washington, DC office. This role reports to CIPL’s President.

About the Role:

Vice President / Senior Director of Policy and Consulting is a leadership role either at the Vice President or Senior Director level, working closely with CIPL’s President and CIPL’s leadership team. The primary purpose of the role is to advance CIPL’s policy priorities, projects and initiatives globally in relation to a broad range of digital regulation, laws and implementation, related to privacy, data, AI, emerging tech, as well as internal organizational governance and best practices. The role will work with CIPL’s international team of privacy and data experts who are based in CIPL’s offices in Washington DC, London and Brussels.

Key Responsibilities Include:

• Identify and lead targeted research projects relating to CIPL’s current and new workstreams and projects, as well as drafting and overseeing the implementation of key CIPL thought leadership and deliverables such as memoranda, reports and other written materials reflecting the findings of such research.
• Identify and lead consulting work for specific public and private sector entities (including CIPL member organizations) that relate to CIPL’s global privacy, data and tech policy work and expertise.
• Help define CIPL’s strategy, objectives, areas of growth and expansion in broader areas of data and digital policy, and support CIPL’s President in executing that strategy.
• Maintain and deepen CIPL’s position as a leading global policy and best practices thought leader and represent CIPL with internal and external stakeholders.
• Grow CIPL’s membership, funding models and more varied service offerings, including consulting opportunities and strategic consulting projects.
• Deepen relationships and partnerships with members, senior business leaders and technologists, and key external stakeholders in governments, the regulatory community, international organizations, academia and complementary think tanks.
• Oversee and work closely with CIPL’s leadership team and team members to develop strategies and implement project plans that relate to or depend upon ongoing research and consulting work to advance CIPL’s global policy agenda on a wide range of privacy, data, and tech policy issues. This includes the following topics:
• Proposed legislation, simplification and rule-making;
• Cross-border data flows;
• Digital sovereignty and data localization;
• Accountability-based information management, privacy, AI governance;
• Regional developments (e.g., Europe, US (state and federal), Canada, Latin America, India, and Asia-Pacific);
• The role of corporate data protection or privacy officers and other relevant organizational data and AI governance officers;
• Privacy, data and AI risk assessment and management; transparency and user control;
• Privacy preserving technologies (PPTs);
• Accountable AI governance and best practices;
• Children’s data, privacy and safety
• Cloud computing;
• Data sharing between and among private sector organizations and public sector organizations;
• Effective and smart regulatory strategy and oversight.
• Develop and promote specific policy positions by working with CIPL’s leadership team and CIPL member companies.
• Oversee development of agend