Leading the Research & Insights team, he provides strategic direction and contributes to the development of practical content for privacy professionals on privacy law and policy, data protection management, and privacy technology and engineering. This work includes engaging with privacy leaders from industry, government, academia and civil society as he keeps IAPP members informed on data protection developments around the world.

Previously, Joe served as the Deputy Director for International Data Transfers with the UK Government where he led the team responsible for UK Government policies relating to free and secure flow of data internationally. Joe has been globally recognized as a leader in privacy law and policy. In 2022, Politico named him as the fourth most influential ‘rulemaker’ in Europe as well as the Digital policy ‘Wonk of the week’ in September of 2021.

Joe has been globally recognized as a leader in privacy law and policy. In 2022, Politico named him as the fourth most influential ‘rulemaker’ in Europe as well as the Digital policy ‘Wonk of the week’ in September of 2021. He has led dozens of UK Government diplomatic delegations or missions, holds over 200 public and private speaking credits on data protection and transfers, and has contributed frequently to academic and professional publications, including the National Law Review. He received his BA in Jurisprudence (Law) with honors from the University of Oxford and his Legal Practitioner Course with honors from the University of Law.

Victoria White spent 10 years serving as a British Diplomat with the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO).

Victoria White spent 10 years serving as a British Diplomat with the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO). Her diplomatic career focussed on protecting British Nationals overseas from serious harm such as forced marriage and death penalty before specialising in Crisis Management. This included responding to terror incidents, natural disasters and political instability affecting British National overseas and contingency planning for Sub-Saharan Africa.

She moved to the UK Ministry of Defence where she began to specialise in policy governance for Cyber Operations. She took up her post in Pretoria in 2020 to lead the UK Government’s cyber engagement for Southern Africa

Serianu Limited is Pan African Cyber security consulting firm with presence in Kenya, Ethiopia, Ghana, Botswana and Nigeria. The firm provides dynamic, business-focused security monitoring and analytics solutions through a combination of consulting, managed services, and threat intelligence. By partnering with Serianu, risk-sensitive organizations are better placed to detect and act on threats to their business, manage compliance with security regulations and policies, and gain the insight needed to prioritize investments and assign scarce resources.

The Honeynet Project is a leading international non-profit security research organization, dedicated to investigating the latest attacks and developing open source security tools to improve Internet security. With Chapters around the world, our volunteers have contributed to fight against malware (such as Confickr), discovering new attacks and creating security tools used by businesses and government agencies all over the world.

Mr. Makatiani is currently leading a continent-wide (Nigeria, Kenya, Ghana and Ethiopia) effort to develop research based insights on the state of cyber security in Africa.

Before Serianu Limited, Mr. Makatiani worked with Deloitte and Touche, RSA Security, EMC Corporation and Federal Reserve Bank in Boston. Mr. Makatiani has a strong passion for Cyber security issues with an emphasis on research based consulting. He has over 15 years experience in the ICT industry– focusing on ICT strategy, Analytics, Risk and Compliance. He has led numerous engagements across the world– including Kenya, United States, Israel, Ireland, Singapore, China, Egypt and India.

William holds a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, a Masters in Science of Finance from Clark University, Worcester, MA USA and is also a graduate of EMC Corporation’s Management Leadership Programme.

Senwelo is attorney admitted to practice law in Botswana specializing in technology and cyber law, a complex but fun area of law.

Senwelo is interested and work tirelessly to achieve proficiency in its diverse sub-areas especially technology policy and regulation, the corporate commercial aspects of innovation and technology, ethics and legalities of new and emerging tech (such as AI, robotics, cloud and edge computing, fintech and blockchain), privacy and data protection, cybersecurity law, digital rights, telecoms law, electronic evidence law and ICTs for people living with disabilities.

Eperienced cyber security expert with a demonstrated history of working in the computer and network security industry. Skilled in ISO 27001, IT Strategy, Management, Information Security, and Telecommunications. Strong business development professional. Proficient, thorough and dedicated cyber security expert with deep understanding of information technology and with remarkable experience of risk and crisis management.

Extensively experienced in leading a wide range of multifaceted activities in the field of cyber security preparedness and capacity building on national as well as on international leve

Itumeleng's experience has seen him being part of the National Development Plan 10 (NDP 10) drafters, where his motions on cyber security in his Knowledge Society thematic group were adopted. He has worked with Botswana Police (CID) providing Computer Forensics consultation.

For over 10 years he has provided training to a number of institutions and corporate entities on Cyber Security and related courses. For a 3-year period, he partnered with local radio stations to do weekly IT awareness shows. He has been a contributor to local and regional publications on Cyber Security related issues in Botswana.

Itumeleng is also the pioneer of the mobile application industry and a BlackBerry Enterprise developer. He is a revered technologist