About the IAPP

Dr Ann Kristin Glenster is a legal expert on data protection, privacy, cybersecurity, intellectual property, and data and AI governance. Ann Kristin is also an academic expert on epistemic rights, regulation of deceptive design and the infosphere, and privacy in neurotechnologies.

She is the Executive Director of the Glenlead Centre, a consortium of independent researchers who aim to bridge the gap between high-quality research and public policy.  She is also the Deputy Director of the Minderoo Centre for Technology and Democracy at the University of Cambridge.

She has made policy recommendations to the UK Parliament, government departments, European Parliament, European Commission, US Federal Trade Commission, US Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, and the United Nations. She is a member of the Pool of Experts to the European Data Protection Board.

Ann Kristin is a Fellow of Technology and Human Rights at the Harvard Kennedy School; and Democracy; and an affiliate of the Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Law at the University of Cambridge. She was formerly the Senior Policy Advisor on Technology Governance and Law at the Minderoo Centre for Technology and Democracy.

Ann Kristin holds a PhD in law from the University of Cambridge and conducted doctoral research at the Harvard Law School. She has taught at the University of Cambridge, University of Oxford, Imperial, LSE, Brown University, and Harvard University.

She has been a judge of the Price Media Law Moot Competition at the Bonavero Institute of Human Rights at the University of Oxford.