Sam Grogan
Global Privacy Policy Analyst

Sam is the Global Privacy Policy Analyst 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. Sam graduated with a Bachelor of Law from University College Cork, Ireland in 2014. During law school, Sam worked with the Stanford Center for Internet & Society on global data access law and interned at Matheson, one of Ireland's leading law firms.
 
After completing his degree, Sam qualified as an attorney in New York and following this completed his first LL.M. degree at Queen Mary, University of London where he concentrated in EU privacy. Afterwards, Sam worked in the privacy department of Shell Oil Company before enrolling in his second LL.M. degree at the University of Pennsylvania Law School, concentrating in US privacy. During this program, Sam conducted privacy research with Penn Law's Center for Technology, Innovation and Competition. He is also an IAPP Certified Information Privacy Professional (CIPP/US, CIPP/E and CIPP/A).

Sam supports CIPL in preparing and editing  project white papers, workshop and meeting reports, blogs, articles, public consultations, and other materials as well as monitoring global privacy developments. Additionally, his international experience in privacy helps to develop and generate new projects and ideas that further CIPL’s mission of policy impact.

By Sam Grogan

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

Author, Access Denied! Contrasting Data Access in the United States and Ireland Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies, (3) 2016. Awarded the Andreas Pfitzmann prize for best student paper.

Contact

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

Office: +1 202 778 2211
Email: sgrogan@huntonak.com​
EDUCATION
  • LL.M., University of Pennsylvania Law School, 2017
  • LL.M., Queen Mary, University of London, 2016
  • LL.B., University College Cork, 2014

BAR ADMISSIONS
  • New York

​LANGUAGES
  • English
  • French