About

Emma Redmond is senior director and head of international data protection for Ancestry.com, a technology company that harnesses family history and consumer genomics, and previously head of EU data protection at LinkedIn. Redmond is responsible for EU regulatory compliance, advising on product development, advertising technology, engagement with regulators globally, international data projects, data security and privacy by design. Her experience spans the negotiation field to complex contractual agreements, mitigation of risk, working cross-culturally within highly complex environments and privacy engineering whilst acting as a proactive and strategic adviser to the organisation. Prior to joining LinkedIn, she acted as assistant general counsel and board director for Conversant Inc. and worked previously as a barrister in private practice in Dublin. She is an active and regular speaker at data protection events and has written on legal topics for nationwide print media and legal academic journals. Redmond is a member of the general counsel forum at the American Chamber of Commerce (current chairperson), a member of the Inner Temple as well as the International Association of Privacy Professionals. She was chosen to participate at Harvard Law School’s Leadership in Corporate Counsel programme as well as University of Cambridge Judge Business School’s Leadership in Legal Management Programme. She is an Adjunct Associate Professor of Law at University College Dublin’s Sutherland School of Law and lectures widely in her field of expertise including at the Law Society of Ireland. She is an experienced professional skilled in privacy, data protection and security with a keen focus on building relationships, practical processes, and programmes that deal with privacy and data protection issues on a global scale. Redmond identifies that, given she works for Ancestry, she is ‘87% Irish 12% British, 1% Finnish but 100% privacy’.