Giovanna Carloni
Global Privacy Policy Manager

Giovanna is the Global Privacy Policy Manager of Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP’s Centre for Information Policy Leadership (CIPL), a preeminent global privacy  and security policy think tank located in Washington, DC, London and Brussels. Giovanna supports CIPL’s projects such as the Accountability project, and helps monitor and analyze legislative and privacy developments around the world, with a focus on Europe and Latin America. She also helps manage CIPL’s project on Brazilian Data Protection Implementation and Effective Regulation, which will bring together key stakeholders and experts from industry, government and academia to engage in a constructive expert dialogue on the interpretation, implementation and effective application of Brazil’s first comprehensive data protection law (“Lei Geral de Proteção de Dados Pessoais”) or LGPD.
 
Giovanna joins CIPL from Promontory Financial Group, an IBM Company, where she was a Data Privacy Associate working on GDPR readiness assessment and implementation for four years. During this period, she was seconded twice. First, to a major UK retailer to the position of Privacy and Data Governance Officer and, second, to a global social media and tech company on its EMEA Privacy Policy Team.
 
Prior to joining Promontory, Giovanna spent two years as a legal intern at Veirano Advogados, a major Brazilian law firm, where she worked on the civil litigation and compliance teams, and provided legal consultations concerning the Brazilian privacy and data protection regulatory frameworks and the Brazilian Internet Law (Marco Civil da Internet).

Contact

Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP
30 St Mary Axe
London, EC3A 8EP

Office: +44 (0) 20 7220 5632
Email: GCarloni@HuntonAK.com​
EDUCATION
  • LL.M., Queen Mary University of London, 2015
  • Law degree, Fundação Getulio Vargas - Rio de Janeiro, 2014
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BAR ADMISSIONS
  • Rio de Janeiro

LANGUAGES
  • English
  • Portuguese