Meet Natascha Gerlach

Natascha Gerlach

Director of Privacy and Data Policy

Natascha Gerlach

Natascha Gerlach holds the position of Director of Privacy Policy for the Center of information Policy Leadership (CIPL) in Brussels. Her work is focused on a range of privacy and data related topics including cross-border data flows, AI, data ethics and data governance. Before joining CIPL, Natascha was a Senior Attorney with Cleary Gottlieb in their Brussels office, where she headed Cleary’s European eDiscovery group leveraging her experience in US eDiscovery by implementing new technologies and operationalizing the team. Natascha was also a senior member of Cleary’s Data Privacy group and advised clients on a wide array of data privacy issues, with a special focus on the cross section of international discovery and data protection. Natascha is Chair Emerita of The Sedona Conference Working Group 6 on International Electronic Information Management, Discovery and Disclosure (WG6) Steering Committee. She is on the advisory board for the Georgetown Law AEDI and has been on the ABA CBI Steering Committee since its inception in 2017. Natascha publishes regularly on data protection topics and is a frequent speaker at relevant conferences.

Get in touch

Av. des Arts 47/49,

1000 Bruxelles, Belgium

 

Direct: +32 (0)2 643 58 04

Office: +32 (0)2 643 58 00

Email: [email protected]

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Relevant Experience
Prior to Joining CIPL

  • Assured the compliance of production procedures with German Data Protection laws
  • Provided expert advice on Data Privacy issues
  • Co-Chaired the European Data Privacy Group at Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP
  • Represented multinational pharmaceutical company in litigation against the Internal Revenue Service alleging improper income allocation – Case settled in September 2006 for $3.1 billion
  • Natascha is the Chair Emerita Steering Committee for Working Group 6 at The Sedona Conference

Education

  • LLM, Law, Queen’s University, 1999
  • University of Hamburg, 1995

Languages

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  • EN English
  • GR German
  • NL Dutch
  • IT Italian
  • FR French

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