About the IAPP

Katrina Destrée is an experienced privacy and sustainability leader with a proven record in developing and implementing privacy programs, sustainability initiatives, and reputation-building strategies for technology and financial services firms. She is based in San Diego, California after having previously lived and worked in Europe for 20 years (Belgium, France, the Netherlands, and Poland). An IAPP Fellow of Information Privacy (FIP), she holds IAPP’s CIPP/E and CIPM certifications and recently joined the IAPP Faculty. She is an independent consultant at Agréa Privacy & Sustainability Communications after working in global privacy departments at Dell Technologies, Silicon Valley Bank, and PayPal in Silicon Valley. Prior to privacy, she held senior management roles in sustainability at Nokia and the Global Enabling Sustainability Initiative (formerly a UN Initiative) in Brussels.

When data protection and privacy became the leading issue facing the entire telecom sector from a sustainability point of view, she increased her focus on data privacy. Her work in the telecom sector includes enabling technologies, machine learning, and AI. She loves Privacy Impact Assessments (PIAs) because they bring people together and prove to be far more interesting as the processing of personal data stories evolve.

She holds a Master of Arts degree from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University in Boston and a Bachelor of Arts degree from the California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo. She also continues her life-long passion in classical ballet and teaches beginning ballet.