JOAQUÍN PÉREZ CATALÁN
Director of the International Department of Spanish Data Protection Agency
Joaquín Pérez Catalán, Telecommunication Engineer; Certifications CISA, CISM and CGEIT by ISACA. More than 30 years of professional experience in the fields of IT Security, Data Protection and Privacy in Spain and abroad. Extensive experience in privacy audit plans on different sectors such as Banking, Financials, Insurance, Telecommunications, Health, Public Administration, Justice, Police, etc. Resident Twinning Adviser in two twinning projects financed by the EU held in Bulgaria and Israel. Expert in other projects implemented in France, Czech Republic, Bulgaria, Croatia, Mexico, Albania, Kenya, Ukraine, and Montenegro etc. Representative of the Spanish Data Protection Authority in the European Data Protection Board and others national and international working groups. Professor and lecturer on IT security and privacy in different Universities and institutions. Currently working as Director of the International Department of the AEPD, participating in the process of implementation of the new European Data Protection Regulation and the Permanent Secretariat of the Iberoamerican Network of Data Protection.
Joaquín Pérez Catalán,
Joaquín Pérez Catalán is the Director of the International Unit at the Spanish Data Protection Authority which is also the Permanent Secretariat of the Iberoamerican Network of Data Protection, a network stablished in 2003.
More than 30 years of professional experience in the fields of Data Protection, IT Security, Privacy in Spain and different countries in Europe, America, Africa and Middle-East.
Before becoming the head of the International Unit, he also was working at the Spanish Data Protection Authority as Inspector making data protection audits on many sectors and he has also been Resident Advisor of the EU in Bulgaria and Israel.
Joaquin hold a Master on Telecommunication Engineer and certifications CISA, CISM, CGEIT, CDPSI by ISACA and is lecture in different curses and master at different universities.
More than 30 years of professional experience in the fields of Data Protection, IT Security, Privacy in Spain and abroad.
Extensive experience in privacy audit plans on different sectors such as Banking, Financials, Insurance, Telecommunications, Health, Public Administration, Justice, Police, etc. Resident Twinning Adviser in two twinning projects financed by the EU held in Bulgaria and Israel. Expert in other projects implemented in France, Czech Republic, Bulgaria, Croatia, Mexico, Albania, Montenegro, Kenia, etc.
Representative of the Spanish Data Protection Authority in national and international working groups.
Professor and lecturer on privacy and IT security in different Universities and institutions.
Currently working in the International Department of the AEPD, participating in the process of implementation of the new European Data Protection Regulation.
Joaquín Pérez Catalán, ingénieur en télécommunications; Certifications CISA, CISM et CGEIT par ISACA. Plus de 25 ans d'expérience professionnelle dans les domaines de la sécurité informatique, de la protection des données et de la vie privée en Espagne et à l'étranger. Vaste expérience des plans d'audit en matière de protection des données dans différents secteurs tels que la banque, la finance, les assurances, les télécommunications, la santé, l'administration publique, la justice, la police, etc. Conseiller résident en jumelage dans deux projets financés par l'UE en Bulgarie et en Israël. Expert dans d'autres projets mis en œuvre en France, en République Tchèque, en Bulgarie, en Croatie, au Mexique, en Albanie et au Monténégro, etc. Représentant de l'autorité espagnole de la protection des données dans les groupes de travail nationaux et internationaux. Professeur et conférencier sur la sécurité informatique et la protection des données dans différentes universités et institutions. Travaille actuellement au département international de l'AEPD, participant au processus de mise en œuvre du nouveau règlement européen sur la protection des données.
Philippe Dufresne was appointed Privacy Commissioner of Canada on June 27, 2022. A leading legal expert on human rights, administrative and constitutional law, he previously served as the Law Clerk and Parliamentary Counsel of the House of Commons. In this capacity, he was the chief legal officer of the House of Commons and led the office responsible for the provision of legal and legislative drafting services to the House of Commons, its Speaker, Members and committees, the Board of Internal Economy and the House Administration.
Prior to his appointment as Law Clerk of the House of Commons in 2015, he was the Canadian Human Rights Commission’s Senior General Counsel, responsible for legal services, litigation, investigations, mediations, employment equity and Access to Information and Privacy. During that time, he successfully represented the Commission before all levels of Canadian Courts, including the Supreme Court of Canada, in a number of key human rights and constitutional cases over the last two decades. He has appeared before the Supreme Court on 15 occasions, on issues ranging from accessibility and equal pay for work of equal value, to the balancing of human rights and national security. As lead counsel for the Commission in the landmark parliamentary privilege case of House of Commons v. Vaid, he helped reinforce and clarify some of the country’s fundamental constitutional principles as they apply to the House of Commons and Parliament.
A member of the Bars of Quebec, Ontario, and Massachusetts, he has served his profession and community in several different capacities, including as president of the constitutional and human rights law section of the Canadian Bar Association (Quebec Branch) and as a member of the editorial board for the Canadian Corporate Counsel Association’s CCCA Magazine. In 2014, he served as president of the International Commission of Jurists, an organization devoted to the protection of the rule of law and judicial independence in Canada and internationally.
Commissioner Dufresne holds degrees in common and civil law from McGill University’s Faculty of Law, and has been a part-time professor with the University of Ottawa’s Faculty of Common Law and Queen’s University’s Faculty of Law where he taught international criminal law, human rights and appellate advocacy. He regularly speaks on issues of human rights, administrative, constitutional and parliamentary law in Canada.
Ms. Harman-Stokes is the Acting Director of the U.S. Department of Justice Office of Privacy and Civil Liberties (OPCL). The Office supports the Chief Privacy and Civil Liberties Officer (CPCLO) and is responsible for helping ensure the Department’s compliance with the Privacy Act of 1974, E-Government Act, and other privacy-related laws, regulations, and policies. In addition, the Office has a central policy-making role in the Department’s development and evaluation of legislative, regulatory, and other policy proposals affecting privacy, both domestically and internationally. Ms. Harman-Stokes has directly participated in international negotiations designed to harmonize high standards for protection of privacy and civil liberties in the law enforcement and national security contexts. Before joining DOJ, she was the Chief Privacy Officer (CPO) at the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, the U.S. financial regulator that supervises and enforces US law in derivatives markets. She was the first CPO and the senior advisor for ensuring data protection and privacy in all agency programs and operations. She has been a consultant to multinational companies on international data protection and privacy law, and was a corporate officer and Associate General Counsel and was responsible for the data protection and privacy program at a company collecting sensitive biometric and other data in 110 countries. She has chaired various committees and working groups in the Federal Privacy Council and has hosted data privacy symposia. She also was an attorney at Hogan & Hartson LLP (now Hogan Lovells US), received her law degree from the University of Virginia School of Law and her undergraduate degree from the American University School of International Service. She is an IAPP Certified Information Privacy Professional-US and Government (CIPP/US, CIPP/G).
