Cecilia Alvarez

Cecilia Álvarez is Facebook´s EMEA Privacy Policy Director.

Cecilia served as Pfizer's European Privacy Officer Lead from 2015 to 2019. She was also Pfizer Spain Legal Lead for an interim period. She formerly worked 18 years in the Spanish law firm Uría Menéndez, leading the data protection, IT and ecommerce areas of practice as well as the LATAM Data Protection Working Group.

Cecilia is the Chairwoman of APEP (Spanish Privacy Professional Association), the Spanish member of CEDPO (Confederation of European Data Protection Organisations) and a member of the Leadership Counsel of The Sedona Conference (W-6).

She is a also member of the Royal Academy of Jurisprudence and Legislation in the section of the Law on Technologies of the Information and the Knowledge as well as Arbitrator of the European Association of Arbitration (ITC section).

She participated in the Group of Experts selected by the Spanish DPA to prepare the Madrid Resolution on International Privacy Standards in 2009 and also formed part of the Volunteer Group of Privacy Experts of the OECD Working Party on Information Security and Privacy (WPISP) in charge of the 2013 review of the OECD guidelines governing the protection of privacy and transborder data flows of personal data.

Cecilia has written numerous publications on data protection and regularly lectures on data protection, IT and e-commerce at different Master’s programmes and seminars (Universidad de Navarra, IE, ICADE, Universidad Carlos III, Forum on International Privacy Law, IAPP, European Privacy Officers Network (EPON), The Sedona Conference, Magister Lvcentinvs, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, AFI, ...) and has been highly ranked in the legal directories Best Lawyers, Chambers and International Who's Who Lawyers for Spain. In 2016, she was granted the Iberian Lawyer Award in Compliance.