Peter Swire
Elizabeth and Tommy Holder Chair of Law and Ethics / Senior Counsel, Georgia Tech Scheller College of Business / Alston & Bird LLP
Peter Swire is the Elizabeth and Tommy Holder Chair of Law and Ethics at the Georgia Tech Scheller College of Business, where he teaches cybersecurity and privacy. He is senior counsel with Alston & Bird LLP, and Research Director for the Cross-Border Data Forum. For the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine, he is a member of the study committee on The Future of Encryption, and served from 2015 to 2021 on The Forum on Cyber-Resiliency. In 2019, the Future of Privacy Forum honored him for Outstanding Academic Scholarship. In 2018, he was named an Andrew Carnegie Fellow for his project on cross-border data flows. In 2015 the IAPP awarded him its Privacy Leadership Award. In 2013, he served on President Obama’s Review Group on Intelligence and Communications Technology.