September 22, 2020 | Washington,DC

SPEAKER BIOS

Welcome and Opening Remarks

Andrew Smith is Director of the Bureau of Consumer Protection at the Federal Trade Commission. He 

came to the FTC from the law firm of Covington & Burling, where he co-chaired the financial services 

practice group. Earlier in his career, Andrew was a staff attorney at the FTC, where he led the agency’s 

efforts to make several rules under the Fair Credit Reporting Act. Andrew has written extensively on 

consumer protection and financial services issues, and served as the Chair of the American Bar 

Association’s Consumer Financial Services Committee.

An Overview of Data Portability: Concepts and Terminology

Peter Swire is the Elizabeth and Tommy Holder Chair of Law and Ethics at the Georgia Tech Scheller 

College of Business, where he teaches cybersecurity and privacy. He is also senior counsel with Alston 

& Bird LLP, and Research Director for the Cross-Border Data Forum. In 2019, the Future of Privacy 

Forum honored Peter for Outstanding Academic Scholarship. In 2013, Peter served as one of five 

members of President Obama’s Review Group on Intelligence and Communications Technology. In 

2009-2010, he served as Special Assistant to President Obama for Economic Policy. Under President 

Clinton, Peter was the Chief Counselor for Privacy in the U.S. Office of Management and Budget, the 

first person to have U.S. government-wide responsibility for privacy policy. In that role, his activities 

included being White House coordinator for the HIPAA medical privacy rule, and helping negotiate the 

U.S.-EU Safe Harbor agreement for trans-border data flows.

Data Portability Initiatives in the European Union, California, and India: 

Case Studies

Inge Graef is Associate Professor of Competition Law at Tilburg University. She is affiliated with the 

Tilburg Law and Economics Center and the Tilburg Institute for Law, Technology, and Society. Inge is 

an expert in the areas of competition law, platform regulation and the governance of data. She is cochair of the Digital Clearinghouse initiative, which aims to facilitate cooperation, dialogue and 

exchange of insights between regulatory authorities across Europe and beyond in the areas of 

competition, data protection and consumer law. Inge is also an appointed member of the European 

Commission’s expert group to the EU Observatory on the Online Platform Economy.

Rahul Matthan is a partner at Trilegal. He is part of the telecommunications, media, and technology 

(TMT) practice group of the firm. Rahul has advised on some of the largest TMT transactions in India. 

He has also been involved in a number of policy initiatives in the TMT space including assisting the 
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government in preparing the country’s privacy law. Rahul is a published author and a regular speaker 

across the world on matters relating to emerging technologies and the law. He also writes Ex Machina, 

a weekly column on the interface of law and technology.

Karolina Mojzesowicz is the Deputy Head of Unit of the unit responsible for data protection at the 

European Commission (Directorate-General for Justice and Consumers). She was one of the European 

Commission’s representatives in the interinstitutional negotiations with Parliament and Council on the 

General Data Protection Regulation, and is now responsible for its implementation in the EU. Karolina 

previously served as a member of the EC’s Legal Service, focusing on EU competition law and 

international trade law. In that capacity, she represented the EC in numerous cases before the 

European courts and World Trade Organization panels and Appellate Body. Karolina studied law in 

Poland, the Netherlands, and Germany, where she obtained her PhD in 2001.

Stacey D. Schesser is the Supervising Deputy Attorney General for the Privacy Unit in the Consumer 

Protection Section of the Office of the California Attorney General. Her recent matters include People 

v. Equifax, People v. Uber, and leading the team charged with drafting regulations for the California 

Consumer Privacy Act. Stacey began her career at the Attorney General’s Office in 2007 in its Criminal 

Division and has worked in the Privacy Unit since its inception in 2012. Stacey received her J.D. from 

the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law, where she wrote on privacy law issues for the 

California Law Review, and received her B.A. from Douglass College, Rutgers University.

Gabriela Zanfir-Fortuna is Senior Counsel for the Future of Privacy Forum, where she leads the work 

on global privacy developments and European data protection law. She has a PhD in Civil Law (2013, 

University of Craiova), with a thesis focusing on the rights of the data subject, including the right to 

data portability, and an LLM in Human Rights. Previously, she served as legal and policy officer for the 

European Data Protection Supervisor in Brussels, where she was involved in the legislative process of 

the General Data Protection Regulation and the assessment of the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield. Gabriela is a 

co-author of GDPR: A Commentary (Oxford University Press, 2020).

Financial and Health Portability Regimes: Case Studies

Michael S. Barr is the Joan and Sanford Weill Dean of Public Policy at the Gerald R. Ford School, the 

Frank Murphy Collegiate Professor of Public Policy, the Roy F. and Jean Humphrey Proffitt Professor of 

Law, and Faculty Director of the Center on Finance, Law, and Policy at the University of Michigan. He is 

also a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress and, previously, at the Brookings Institution. 

He served from 2009-2010 as the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Assistant Secretary for Financial 

Institutions, and was a key architect of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection 

Act of 2010. He received his J.D. from Yale Law School; an M. Phil in International Relations from 

Magdalen College, Oxford University, as a Rhodes Scholar; and his B.A., summa cum laude, with 

Honors in History, from Yale University.

Dan Horbatt is Chief Technology Officer of Particle Health and a lifelong technologist who has worked 

on building global-scale big data systems across a number of industries, including at companies such as 

Microsoft, Skype, Palantir, and Google. After going through a serious medical event and being unable 

to readily access and transfer his medical records to help with his treatment, he decided to focus his 
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efforts on healthcare data interoperability and empowering patients to exercise their rights under 

HIPAA.

Bill Roberts is the Head of Open Banking at the Competition and Markets Authority in the United 

Kingdom. In this role, Bill led the design of the CMA’s open banking remedies, which were adopted 

following the CMA’s market investigation into retail banking, and is responsible for its implementation, 

which is scheduled to be complete in Q1 2021. He is also a member of the Advisory Group on Open 

Finance (which is exploring the application of open banking principles to other financial products) and 

the Smart Data Working Group (which is doing the same for other regulated markets, such as energy, 

and communications). Before becoming a regulator, Bill worked for what is now Thomson Reuters and 

prior to that was Chief Operating Officer of the UK equivalent of Consumers Union.

Don Rucker is the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology at the U.S. Department of 

Health and Human Services, where he leads the formulation of the federal health IT strategy and 

coordinates federal health IT policies, standards, programs, and investments. Don has three decades 

of clinical and informatics experience. He started his informatics career at Datamedic Corporation, 

where he co-developed the world's first Microsoft Windows-based electronic medical record. He then 

spent over a decade serving as Chief Medical Officer at Siemens Healthcare USA. Don has also 

practiced emergency medicine for a variety of organizations, including at Kaiser in California and at 

Ohio State University’s Wexner Medical Center. Don is a graduate of Harvard College and the 

University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, with board certifications in Emergency Medicine, 

Internal Medicine and Clinical Informatics. He holds an MS in Medical Computer Science and an MBA, 

both from Stanford.

Reconciling the Benefits and Risks of Data Portability

Pam Dixon is the founder and Executive Director of the World Privacy Forum, a public interest research 

group focused on consumer data privacy issues. Her research areas include identity, biometrics, 

artificial intelligence, and health privacy. Pam is the author of several books and privacy studies, 

including Without Consent, a substantive report examining the student directory information practices 

in U.S. schools and related privacy issues. She is also the author of A Failure to Do No Harm regarding 

India’s Aadhaar digital biometric identity system, and the lead author of The Scoring of America, a 

report on predictive analytics and privacy issues associated with consumer scoring. Pam has served as 

an expert advisor to the OECD on health data and on artificial intelligence, and as a rapporteur for the 

first Roundtable of African Data Protection Authorities on the status and response to privacy risks in 

identity systems. In December 2019, Pam’s work in digital identity was highlighted when the World 

Privacy Forum was named a top ten digital identity influencing organization globally.

Ali Lange works on the public policy team at Google. She is based in the California headquarters and 

works closely with the data portability product team. Ali has spoken about data portability with 

regulators and innovators around the world. Previously, she was on the Privacy and Data team at the 

Center for Democracy and Technology where she led efforts on algorithmic bias, workplace privacy, 

and state legislation. Prior to joining CDT, Ali was an independent writer and researcher focused on 

technology policy. She also worked for several years in the U.S. Senate.
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Gabriel Nicholas is a joint research fellow at the New York University Information Law Institute, 

Engelberg Center on Innovation Law and Policy, and the NYU Center for Cybersecurity. His research 

focuses on tech competition and the politics of software. Gabe worked as a software engineer at 

Yahoo for five years and received his MS in Information Management and Systems from the University 

of California, Berkeley, School of Information in 2018. His work has been published in multiple law 

reviews as well as Slate, Wired, and The Boston Globe. 

Hodan Omaar is a policy analyst at the Center for Data Innovation, a research institute focused on the 

intersection of data, technology, and public policy. Hodan writes and speaks on a variety of issues 

related to data-driven innovation, including data availability, reliability, and portability. Her work 

covers U.S. policy in artificial intelligence across sectors such as healthcare, education, and 

government. Previously, Hodan worked as a senior consultant on technology and risk management in 

London where she audited IT security and management controls at various firms. In addition, Hodan 

was a crypto-economist in Berlin where she developed a financial model for the storage of data on a 

blockchain database. She has an MA in Economics and Mathematics from the University of Edinburgh.

Peter Swire is the Elizabeth and Tommy Holder Chair of Law and Ethics at the Georgia Tech Scheller 

College of Business, where he teaches cybersecurity and privacy. He is also senior counsel with Alston 

& Bird LLP, and Research Director for the Cross-Border Data Forum. In 2019, the Future of Privacy 

Forum honored Peter for Outstanding Academic Scholarship. In 2013, Peter served as one of five 

members of President Obama’s Review Group on Intelligence and Communications Technology. In 

2009-2010, he served as Special Assistant to President Obama for Economic Policy. Under President 

Clinton, Peter was the Chief Counselor for Privacy in the U.S. Office of Management and Budget, the 

first person to have U.S. government-wide responsibility for privacy policy. In that role, his activities 

included being White House coordinator for the HIPAA medical privacy rule, and helping negotiate the 

U.S.-EU Safe Harbor agreement for trans-border data flows.

Realizing Data Portability’s Potential: Material Challenges and Solutions

Erika Brown Lee is a Senior Vice President and Assistant General Counsel at Mastercard. Erika is the 

global lead for the company’s privacy advocacy efforts, including cybersecurity, and led the team that 

provides guidance and ensures compliance with privacy and data protection laws across the company’s 

products and services. Erika is the former Chief Privacy and Civil Liberties Officer of the U.S. 

Department of Justice. Prior to DOJ, Erika was in private practice and earlier in her career she served 

at the Federal Trade Commission, including in the Division of Privacy and Identity Protection. Erika is a 

member of the Women Leading Privacy Advisory Board for the International Association of Privacy 

Professionals and chaired the American Bar Association’s Privacy and Information Security Committee.

Sara Collins is a Policy Counsel at Public Knowledge focusing on privacy, data, and platform 

accountability. Previously, Sara was a Policy Counsel on the Future of Privacy Forum’s Education and

Youth Privacy team and specialized in higher education. She has also worked as an investigations 

attorney in the Enforcement Unit at Federal Student Aid, as well as at the Director of Legal Services for 

Veterans Education Success. Sara graduated from the Georgetown University Law Center in 2014, and 

received a B.A. in both Political Science and English from the University of Illinois.
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Bennett Cyphers is a staff technologist at the Electronic Frontier Foundation and works on the Tech 

Projects team. He has worked on EFF’s tracker-blocking browser extension, Privacy Badger, and now 

provides research and technical analysis for a variety of legal and activist teams across EFF. Bennett

focuses on competition issues, consumer privacy, and California legislation.

Michael Murray co-founded the Mission:data Coalition in 2013 and serves as its President. He has 15 

years of experience in the energy industry as an entrepreneur working to access and analyze the 

energy usage data of homes and buildings. Prior to Mission:data, Michael was co-founder and CEO of 

Lucid, an energy management software company, which he grew to 40 employees. He holds two 

patents in energy data sharing and analysis, and lives in Washington State.

Julian Ranger is Executive President and founder of http://digi.me, a decentralized personal data 

solution. Initially an aeronautical engineer, Julian founded STASYS Ltd in 1987, specializing in

interoperability and the military internet, and grew it to a staff of 230, with subsidiaries in the U.S., 

Germany, Malaysia, and Australia prior to its sale to Lockheed Martin in 2005. Julian is an angel 

investor in more than 20 start-up businesses, including firms such as Hailo, DataSift and Astrobotic. He 

is also a Chartered Engineer, Fellow of the IMechE and Liveryman of the Worshipful Company of 

Engineers, and a Virgin Galactic Future Astronaut.

Closing Remarks

Ian Conner is Director of the Bureau of Competition at the Federal Trade Commission. Ian joined the 

FTC as Deputy Director of the Bureau of Competition in 2017 from private practice. Ian began his 

career as a Trial Attorney in the Transportation, Energy, and Agriculture Section of the Antitrust 

Division, which he joined through the Attorney General’s Honors Program at the Department of 

Justice.