Laura Terrell is Deputy General Counsel and Head of Conflicts Management for FTI Consulting, overseeing the matter intake process and client relationships. Laura has global experience advising on litigation, government investigations, corporate internal investigations and compliance, anti-bribery and anti-corruption matters, regulatory matters, corporate governance and reporting, government affairs, sanctions and export controls, employment and whistleblower issues.
Laura Terrell is Deputy General Counsel and Head of Conflicts Management for FTI Consulting, overseeing the matter intake process and client relationships. Laura has global experience advising on litigation, government investigations, corporate internal investigations and compliance, anti-bribery and anti-corruption matters, regulatory matters, corporate governance and reporting, government affairs, sanctions and export controls, employment and whistleblower issues.
Please join FTI Consulting and Perkins Coie on Thursday, December 17 for a virtual panel discussion with leading privacy and data security representatives from business and government that will address the impact and future of evolving privacy regulation for both global business and consumers.
The panel will discuss recent developments including California voters backing of the California Privacy Rights Act - or Proposition 24 - which aims to provide stronger privacy protections for consumer data and establish a new California Privacy Protection Agency, as well as how election dynamics affect the prospects for a new federal data privacy law.
The speakers will also share insights on the international landscape, including transatlantic data flows following the EU’s invalidation of the Privacy Shield accord in July.
Jason Van Beek currently serves as General Counsel to Sen. John Thune in the Office of the Senate Majority Whip. Prior to this, he served as General Counsel and Policy Director for Consumer Protection, Oversight, and Investigations at the Senate Commerce Committee during Sen. Thune’s chairmanship. In both positions, he has participated in negotiations and drafting proposals as part of an ongoing effort to enact a federal consumer privacy law. Van Beek began his career in Washington after working on Sen. Thune’s successful 2004 Senate campaign in South Dakota. He followed Thune to Washington in 2005 and has served in a variety of advisory capacities since then. Van Beek holds a B.A., M.P.A, and J.D.. from the University of South Dakota, and an M.A. in National Security and Strategic Studies from the Naval War College.
Chris Calabrese is the Senior Director of Privacy and Data Policy at Microsoft where he helps lead the company’s global public policy work on privacy and data use. He previously worked in senior roles at the Center for Democracy & Technology and the American Civil Liberties Union advocating for the responsible use of new technologies. Chris has testified before Congress and appeared in many media outlets, including National Public Radio, Fox News, New York Times and Associated Press. Chris has also led several national ACLU campaigns on privacy and was named one of Washington’s Top Lobbyists by The Hill newspaper. Chris is a graduate of Harvard University and holds a J.D. from the Georgetown University Law Center.
Privacy and cybersecurity attorney Dominique Shelton Leipzig co-chairs Perkins Coie’s Ad Tech Privacy & Data Management practice. Dominique has extensive experience counseling clients on compliance with the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), including representing the California Chamber of Commerce, negotiating on the business communities behalf directly with the authors of the CCPA, and advising retailers, financial institutions, healthcare providers and advertising, entertainment and media companies.
Charles Palmer is a Senior Managing Director at FTI Consulting. He works in the Strategic Communications segment and is based in London. Charles leads the Telecom, Media & Technology (TMT) industry practice in the Strategic Communications segment as the Global Head of TMT. In this role he has experience across financial and corporate communications as well as public and regulatory affairs. Charles provides communications advice to a broad range of both UK and international companies.
Caitlin Fennessy is the Research Director at the International Association of Privacy Professionals. Caitlin also leads the IAPP’s privacy engineering initiative and serves as an in-house privacy expert. Prior to joining the IAPP, Caitlin was the Privacy Shield Director at the U.S. International Trade Administration. Caitlin joined ITA in 2009 and spent the next ten years working on international privacy and cross-border data flow policy issues. Caitlin served an adjunct professor of international privacy law at the University of Maine School of Law in 2016 and 2015 and at the University of New Hampshire School of Law in 2014. Before her time at ITA, Caitlin worked in the National Security Division of the Office of Management and Budget and with the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
