Dr. Ochotta is currently global lead for Privacy Governance at Alphabet and Google’s DPO (Data Protection Officer). His role includes a broad set of responsibilities notably the detailed review of all Google product launches from a privacy perspective. Previously, Emil spent 7 years as “Lead for Ads Privacy & Identity Engineering”, where he had engineering responsibility for a variety of projects such as GDPR compliance. He has a Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, PA, published 17 juried publications, been granted 11 patents, and is a Certified Information Privacy Professional by the International Association of Privacy Professionals.