Natascha Gerlach is Director of Privacy and Data Policy at the Center for Information Policy Leadership (CIPL), where she leads work at the intersection of technology, regulation, and responsible data use. Her areas of focus include AI and emerging technologies, privacy-enhancing technologies, children’s privacy and safety, data governance, and cross-border data flows. She also works extensively on the evolving intersection of privacy and competition law, including the complex questions arising where data protection requirements interact with digital competition and platform regulation.

Before joining CIPL, Natascha was a Senior Attorney at Cleary Gottlieb in Brussels, where she led the firm’s European eDiscovery practice—an early adopter of AI-enabled technologies—and advised multinational organisations on complex privacy and data protection matters, particularly at the intersection of international investigations, litigation, and data protection.

Natascha is Chair Emerita of the Steering Committee of The Sedona Conference Working Group 6 on International Electronic Information Management, Discovery and Disclosure. She also serves on the advisory boards of Georgetown Law’s Advanced eDiscovery Institute (AEDI) and OpenAge and is a founding member of the International Data Law Forum (IDLF).