Markus Heyder
Vice President and Senior Policy Counselor

Markus is the Vice President and Senior Policy Counselor 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. Markus has extensive experience in global data privacy, information security and consumer protection law and policy. At CIPL he focuses on law and policy issues in the areas of global data flows and cross-border transfer mechanisms, accountable information management in the context of AI, machine learning, big data, the IoT and other emerging technologies and modern information uses, how to enable both privacy protection and innovation, the risk-based approach to privacy, and many other issues.
 
Prior to joining CIPL, Markus served for over 10 years as Counsel for International Consumer Protection in the Office of International Affairs at the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and nearly two years in the FTC’s Division of Marketing Practices. Immediately prior to joining the FTC, Markus was associated with Lovells (now Hogan Lovells) in Chicago, where he focused on consumer financial services law and financial privacy law.
 
Relevant Experience Prior to Joining CIPL:
  • Served as the principal FTC staff representative in numerous international organizations and networks, including the APEC Data Privacy Subgroup, the Asia Pacific Privacy Authorities (APPA), the International Conference of Data Protection and Privacy Commissioners (ICDPPC), the International Working Group on Data Protection in Telecommunications (the “Berlin Group”), the Global Privacy Enforcement Network (GPEN) and ICANN.
  • Developed and implemented APEC Cross-Border Privacy Rules system, and negotiated and managed the APEC Cross-border Privacy Enforcement Arrangement.
  • Monitored foreign laws and policies relating to privacy and data security, and drafted FTC policy input.
  • Represented the FTC in US government interagency groups on privacy issues.
  • Managed the FTC’s role in the US-EU Safe Harbor Framework.
  • Handled cross-border information sharing and enforcement cooperation in privacy and consumer protection matters.
  • Represented the FTC at domestic and international conferences on issues of consumer protection, privacy and information security matters.

By Markus Heyder

Co-author, Looking Beyond the Fines: Accountability in Light of FTC Consent Orders
November 20, 2019

Co-author, The Role of DPAs in Incentivizing Accountability
July 30, 2018

Co-author, Protecting Privacy in a World of Big Data: The Role of Enhanced Accountability
May 18, 2016

Co-author, How to build a cathedral in two years
April 1, 2016
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​Author, Transparency and the Future of Driverless Privacy, Privacy Perspectives, blog of International Association of Privacy Professionals
November 20, 2015

Co-author, Empowering Individuals Beyond Consent, Privacy Perspectives, blog of International Association of Privacy Professionals
July 2, 2015

Co-author, APEC Privacy Rules for Cross-Border Data Flows—A Model for Global Privacy Protections, Privacy & Security Law Report
March 2, 2015

Author, The APEC Cross-Border Privacy Rules—Now That We’ve Built It, Will They Come?, Privacy Perspectives, blog of International Association of Privacy Professionals
September 4, 2014

Author, Tackling the Risks of Big Data, Privacy Perspectives, blog of International Association of Privacy Professional
September 24, 2014
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Author, Getting Practical and Thinking Ahead: “Interoperability” Is Gaining Momentum?, Privacy Perspectives, blog of International Association of Privacy Professional
April 3, 2014

Contact

Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP
2200 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20037

Direct: 202-419-2005
Office: 202-955-1500
Email: mheyder@huntonak.com 
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EDUCATION
  • JD, Columbia Law School, 1994
  • BA, Soviet Area Studies and Russian, Middlebury College, summa cum laude, 1989

BAR ADMISSIONS
  • District of Columbia

​LANGUAGES
  • English
  • German

​AWARDS AND RECOGNITIONS
  • FTC Steiger Award for outstanding contributions to the Privacy Steering Committee, 2010
  • FTC Paul Rand Dixon Award for developing an international privacy cooperation arrangement, 2007