Erin Egan

As Facebook’s Chief Privacy Officer, Policy, Erin Egan plays a key role in implementing Facebook’s comprehensive privacy program. Egan works with Facebook's cross-functional privacy team to evaluate, from the beginning, the privacy impact of new products and features and to implement recommended practices. She also engages with policymakers, regulators and advocates from around the world on privacy issues. Prior to joining Facebook, she was a partner and co-chair of Covington & Burling's global data protection practice, where she represented technology and media companies on privacy and data security matters. She has been deeply involved in legislative and regulatory efforts to address privacy, data security, e-commerce, advertising, identity theft and other consumer protection issues.