This elite group, comprised of experts in the field, personally nominates all invitees and develops the Agenda, which forms the basis of our discussions.
Forum Overview
Dates: March 26 - 28, 2025
Location: Königstein im Taunus, Germany
The Steering Committee welcomes a select group of chief privacy officers, data protection officers, senior privacy practitioners and privacy regulators from over 20 jurisdictions. The Forum provides an annual opportunity for this pan-jurisdictional group to explore issues, exchange ideas and resolve common challenges.
Using candid, seminar-style discussion, this Forum identifies worldwide trends and developments in privacy law and data protection to address the most pressing concerns facing clients and employers today.
2025 Steering Committee
Committee Co-Chairs
Aiko Schilling has been with Munich Re for more than 14 years and is currently the head of the Legal Data Strategy and Data Governance Department within the Group Compliance and Legal Division at Munich Re. Aiko Schilling has studied law and wrote his doctoral thesis about an internet related topic in the context of European law. Beginning of 2003, he started his job carrier in a law firm, had afterwards an executive position for the Bavarian government for internal affairs before he joined Munich Re as an in-house counsel mid of 2007. In this role, Aiko Schilling was mainly in charge of providing legal advice in the field of IT, supervisory and contract law. Aiko Schilling moved end of 2012 to the Corporate Insurance Partners Division where his core responsibility was supporting underwriters by preparing, negotiating and reviewing (cyber) insurance policies and developing new (cyber) related risk transfer solutions. Mid of 2018 Aiko Schilling took over the position of a Senior Cyber Corporate Underwriter. In this role, Aiko Schilling was mainly responsible for the development of new cyber-related products and to answer legal and wording questions in the context of cyber (re-)insurance. On the first of October 2020, Aiko Schilling became a Senior Cyber Underwriter within the Facultative and Corporate Division dealing with major cyber risks around the globe. After one year, Aiko Schilling joined the Group Compliance and Legal Division as head of the Legal Data Strategy and Data Governance Department where he is predominantly in charge of (international) privacy law in the broader sense.
Committee Members
Noemí is a Spanish qualified lawyer with over 20 years of Privacy experience. She started her career in top-tier law firms (Clifford Chance, DLA Piper, Allen & Overy) in Madrid, to then move on to being an in-house Privacy Lawyer at J&J, also in Madrid, where she had a regional role. She lived in Munich for 4 years, where she had a global Privacy role at Novartis. She then moved to London, for the role of Global Head of Data Privacy at Roofods Ltd. (Deliveroo). After some time in London, she moved to Switzerland, to assume the role of Senior Director, Global Privacy Counsel at BluebirdBio, GmbH, where she worked until the company closed operations in Europe in December 2021. She’s now the Managing Partner/Principal Privacy Consultant at The Privacy ACES, GmbH, also based in Switzerland. Her experience within Privacy goes from regulated sectors such as the pharma world, to new technologies, AI, telecommunications, digital transformation, data transfers, DPIAs, anonymization, etc. She is CIPP/E certified. Also, certified by the SCCE as a Compliance professional. Noemí speaks 6 languages, has written many articles on Privacy and is a frequent speaker at Privacy conferences internationally.
Cecilia Álvarez Rigaudias is the EMEA Privacy Policy Director at Facebook since March 2019. From 2015 to 2019, she served as European Privacy Officer Lead of Pfizer, Vice-Chair of the EFPIA Data Protection Group and Chairwoman of IPPC-Europe. For an interim period, she was also the Legal Lead of the Spanish Pfizer subsidiaries. She formerly worked 18 years in a reputed Spanish law firm, leading the data protection, IT and ecommerce areas of practice as well as the LATAM Data Protection Working Group. Cecilia was the Chairwoman of APEP (Spanish Privacy Professional Association) until June and currently in charge of its international affairs. She is also the Spanish member of CEDPO (Confederation of European Data Protection Organisations) and member of the Leadership Council of The Sedona Conference (W-6). She is a member of the Spanish Royal Academy of Jurisprudence and Legislation in the section of the Law on Technologies of the Information and the Knowledge as well as Arbitrator of the European Association of Arbitration (ITC section). She formed part of the Volunteer Group of Privacy Experts of the OECD (Working Party on Information Security and Privacy; WPISP) in charge of the 2013 review of the OECD guidelines governing the protection of privacy and transborder data flows of personal data. She formerly participated in the Group of Experts selected by the Spanish DPA to prepare the Madrid Resolution on International Privacy Standards in 2009. Cecilia has written numerous publications on data protection and regularly lectures on data protection, IT and e-commerce at different Master’s programmes and seminars.
JOHN N. GEVERTZ has built and managed global privacy programs at two major multinational corporations: Visa Inc. and Automatic Data Processing, Inc. Most recently at Visa, John was Senior Vice President/Chief Privacy Officer responsible for global privacy compliance, information governance, and privacy operations management. John also chaired Visa’s Data Use Council, and was a member of the Data Council, ESG Working Group, and Business Controls Working Group, among other responsibilities. Prior to Visa, John was Global Chief Privacy Officer of ADP. In that role, John provided legal counsel, as well as operational strategic guidance to all worldwide ADP business units on a wide range of privacy, cybersecurity, data strategy and related issues. He was also responsible for developing the intellectual property, operational risk management, and security policy and controls assurance programs. John currently serves on the Digital Economy committee of the EU-US Track Star Dialogue and on the steering committee of the Forum on International Privacy. Among other roles, he has served on the Advisory Board of the Future of Privacy and the Conference Board Council of Chief Privacy Officers. Previously, John was a litigator at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, where he primarily handled intellectual property, securities, and white collar criminal matters. He also served as Appellate Counsel at the Criminal Appeals Bureau of New York’s Legal Aid Society and was a staff scientist developing risk assessment policies and tools at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. John received his J.D. from New York University and his B.A. in both biology and political philosophy from Brown University.
Forum Director
Brenna joins Cambridge Forums with 20 years of experience in events, fundraising, and development. She has spent most of her career in the music industry, working for the Canadian Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences, overseeing the planning of high-profile events like the JUNO awards. Most recently, she launched a successful national advocacy campaign for the live music sector resulting in significant relief funding from the federal government.
Her early career involved raising funds and executing events for non-profit organizations and foundations, including the University of Toronto and the Ireland Fund of Canada. Brenna looks forward to her role as Forum Director to blend her experience and passion for bringing people together and fostering meaningful connections.
She is a mother of two, a fitness enthusiast, and is best known for her sense of humour.
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