Caroline Louveaux is Assistant General Counsel, Privacy & Data Protection, International Markets, at MasterCard. She is responsible for MasterCard’s Privacy and Data Protection Programs in Europe, Asia-Pacific, Middle East and Africa as well as Latin and Central America. Caroline and her team is managing privacy compliance as well as regulatory engagement in those Regions. Caroline is a sought after speaker at public forums globally. She is a member of the Advisory Board and a lecturer for the new “Certified DPO education” program at Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management. She is also a lecturer at Brussels Privacy HUB Summer School, at the CRIDS DataSafe “DPO certification” program and at University Paris-Dauphine. In addition, Caroline is the co-chair of the EU GDPR group of the Information Accountability Foundation (“IAF”) and a member of the GDPR Steering Committee of the Centre of Information Policy & Leadership (“CIPL”). Prior to joining MasterCard in 2007, Caroline worked in private practice, where she specialized in EU and Competition Law. She also worked at the CRID, a well-known research center for computer and law in Belgium, where she performed legal research in the area of new technologies. Caroline holds a law degree from the U.C.L. (Belgium) and U.B.A. (University of Buenos Aires, Argentina) and a LLM degree in International Trade Regulation from the New York University (NYU). Caroline is admitted to the NY Bar and is Certified Information Privacy Professional/Europe (CIPP/E) as well as Certified Information Privacy Manager (CIPM – IAPP).