Dr. Gabriela Zanfir-Fortuna is Senior Counsel for the Future of Privacy Forum, a think-tank based in Washington DC, where she leads the work on Global privacy developments and European data protection law and policy. Prior to moving to the US in 2016, she worked for the European Data Protection Supervisor in Brussels. She holds a PhD in law with a thesis on the rights of the data subject from the perspective of their adjudication in civil law and is a co-author of the GDPR Commentary, OUP 2020. Gabriela won the inaugural CPDP Junior Scholar Award (2014).