Biographies

Katrina Destrée is Director of Privacy at KUMA LLC, a global privacy and security consulting company to public and private sector organizations. She is a Certified Information Privacy Professional/ Europe (CIPP/E) with sector expertise in telecoms and financial services in both the US and Europe. She advises a major financial institution in Silicon Valley on operationalizing privacy through Privacy Impact Assessments of new services, systems, and vendors. She also champions Privacy by Design through internal and external stakeholder engagement. Katrina is a member of the NIST GCTC Cybersecurity and Privacy Advisory Committee, a key partner for GCTC’s annual Smart Secure Cities and Community Challenge. Previously, Katrina lived in Belgium for 18 years where she held management positions in regulatory affairs and sustainability, including as Director of Sustainability and Stakeholder Engagement at Nokia and board member of the Global Enabling Sustainability Initiative, responsible for sector-level sustainability communications with UN agencies, multilateral organizations, EU Institutions, and media outlets. She holds a Master of Arts degree from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University in Boston and a Bachelor of Arts degree from the California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo. Katrina is based in California. ​​​