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Cecilia Álvarez

Meta

Cecilia is the EMEA Privacy Policy Director at Meta since March 2019. From 2015 to 2019, she served as the European Privacy Officer Lead of Pfizer and, for an interim period, also the Legal Lead of the Spanish subsidiary. She formerly worked 18 years in a reputed Spanish law firm, leading the data protection, IT and ecommerce areas of practice as well as the LATAM Data Protection Working Group. Cecilia was the Chairwoman of APEP (Spanish Privacy Professional Association) and is still in charge of the Spanish representation at CEDPO (Confederation of European Data Protection Organizations). She is also a member of the Working Group Series Leadership Council of The Sedona Conference (WG6), a member of the Spanish Royal Academy of Jurisprudence and Legislation in the section of the Law on Technologies of the Information and the Knowledge, and an Arbitrator of the European Association of Arbitration (ITC section). She formed part of the Volunteer Group of Privacy Experts of the OECD (Working Party on Information Security and Privacy; WPISP) in charge of the 2013 review of the OECD guidelines governing the protection of privacy and transborder data flows of personal data. She formerly participated in the Group of Experts selected by the Spanish DPA to prepare the Madrid Resolution on International Privacy Standards in 2009.