Executive Committee

Philippe Dufresne was appointed Privacy Commissioner of Canada on June 27, 2022. A leading legal expert on human rights, administrative and constitutional law, he previously served as the Law Clerk and Parliamentary Counsel of the House of Commons. In this capacity, he was the chief legal officer of the House of Commons and led the office responsible for the provision of legal and legislative drafting services to the House of Commons, its Speaker, Members and committees, the Board of Internal Economy and the House Administration.

Prior to his appointment as Law Clerk of the House of Commons in 2015, he was the Canadian Human Rights Commission’s Senior General Counsel, responsible for legal services, litigation, investigations, mediations, employment equity and Access to Information and Privacy. During that time, he successfully represented the Commission before all levels of Canadian Courts, including the Supreme Court of Canada, in a number of key human rights and constitutional cases over the last two decades. He has appeared before the Supreme Court on 15 occasions, on issues ranging from accessibility and equal pay for work of equal value, to the balancing of human rights and national security. As lead counsel for the Commission in the landmark parliamentary privilege case of House of Commons v. Vaid, he helped reinforce and clarify some of the country’s fundamental constitutional principles as they apply to the House of Commons and Parliament.

A member of the Bars of Quebec, Ontario, and Massachusetts, he has served his profession and community in several different capacities, including as president of the constitutional and human rights law section of the Canadian Bar Association (Quebec Branch) and as a member of the editorial board for the Canadian Corporate Counsel Association’s CCCA Magazine. In 2014, he served as president of the International Commission of Jurists, an organization devoted to the protection of the rule of law and judicial independence in Canada and internationally.

Commissioner Dufresne holds degrees in common and civil law from McGill University’s Faculty of Law and has been a part-time professor with the University of Ottawa’s Faculty of Common Law and Queen’s University’s Faculty of Law where he taught international criminal law, human rights and appellate advocacy. He regularly speaks on issues of human rights, administrative, privacy, constitutional and parliamentary law in Canada.

Borislav Bozhinov is a Chairman of the Bulgarian Commission for Personal Data Protection since May 2025. Mr Bozhinov has vast administrative experience in various areas of state governance. He has more than 17 years of experience in the security and public order services along with over 14 years of legal experience. From 2014 to 2016, Mr Bozhinov was seconded in the European External Action Service. In 2023, he was a representative of the Republic of Bulgaria in the European Union Agency for Law Enforcement Cooperation (Europol). In his capacity as CPDP Chairman Mr Bozhinov is actively involved in the work of the Global Privacy Assembly, the European Data Protection Board, as well as the European Conference of European Data Protection Authorities.

He holds a Master’s degree in Law.

As Information Commissioner for the Bailiwick of Jersey, Paul is accountable for the overall leadership of the Jersey Office of the Information Commissioner (JOIC), the independent Authority responsible for overseeing the Data Protection (Jersey) Law 2018, Data Protection Authority (Jersey) Law 2018 and the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011.

Paul has extensive experience in the regulatory and law enforcement environment. He held the position of Jersey’s Deputy Information Commissioner from 2004 to 2021 and was Acting Jersey Information Commissioner between January and August 2018. Previously, Paul worked at the Jersey Financial Services Commission and as a police officer with the States of Jersey Police.

Paul holds a BA (Hons) degree in Social Policy & Criminology and an ICSA Certificate in Offshore Finance and Administration. He is a member of the International Association of Privacy Practitioners, the Institute of Directors (Jersey) and The Open University Alumni Association. He is also involved in charitable work, most notably as a Governor for local charity, Holidays for Heroes Jersey, which provides holidays in Jersey for mentally and physically injured servicemen and women.

Paul has served as Chair of the Global Privacy Assembly Data Sharing Working Group since May 2022 and was elected to the Executive Committee at the 44^th Annual Meeting held during October 2022.

Advocate Pansy Tlakula is the Chairperson of the Information Regulator of South Africa. She studied law at the University of the Witwatersrand before completing her master’s in law at Harvard. She has held several influential positions.

Advocate Tlakula was appointed in 2005 as member of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights (ACHPR). She served the ACHRC for 12 years, until November 2017. She held the mandates of Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Expression and Access to Information, Chairperson of the Working Group on Specific Issues related to the work of the African Commission, and, between 2015 and 2017, she served as Chairperson of the ACHRC. In January 2020 she started her four-year tenure as a member of the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination.

Dr. Kyung Hee SONG is Chairperson of South Korea’s Personal Information Protection Commission (PIPC).

She is widely recognized as a leading expert in IT and digital policy, having served in both government and academia, with extensive experience in shaping Korea’s digital transformation and artificial intelligence (AI) strategies.

Chairperson Song previously held key positions at the Ministry of Science and ICT, where she worked across telecommunications, cybersecurity, software policy, and international cooperation. She also served as Chief Secretariat at the Presidential Commission on the Fourth Industrial Revolution, focusing on emerging technology governance and cross-sector coordination.

Following her earlier government service, she continued her work in the field as an Invited Professor at Gachon University Law School and as Head of the Center for AI Reliability at the Institute of AI Convergence of Sungkyunkwan University.

Building on her academic and policy expertise, she later joined the National Policy Planning Commission as Head of AI Task Force and Director of Economic Affairs, leading the establishment of a five-year plan on AI strategy and industrial policy.

Chairperson Song holds an MPA from Harvard Kennedy School, an MPP from Seoul National University, and a Ph.D. in Management of Technology from Yonsei University.

Vice President, Legal & Director of Data Protection, DIFC

An experienced attorney with expertise in data protection and regulatory compliance, as well as broad practice in commercial contracting. She is qualified in both the USA (in the states of New Jersey and Pennsylvania) and the UK, and is a Fellow of Information Privacy as certified by the International Association of Privacy Professionals. Lori now provides data protection and security strategy and support in one of the leading financial centres in the MEASA region, while in her own time she writes and speaks on various data protection and compliance topics.

Prior to relocating to Dubai in 2016, Lori was based in London, UK for 10 years, having worked most recently for Fieldfisher LLP in the technology and outsourcing team as a senior privacy and cybersecurity associate. She held in-house roles as Senior Compliance and Privacy Counsel at Dun & Bradstreet, Head of Ethics and Compliance at Orange Business Services and Global Regulatory/Privacy Specialist at BT Global Services. Lori attended DeSales University, receiving a Bachelor of Arts in politics with a minor in philosophy, followed by Widener University School of Law (the Delaware Law School), where she was awarded a Juris Doctor with an emphasis in international business transactions. While at Widener, Lori enrolled in the Geneva International Law Institute, directed by instructors from the WTO, the UN and other international organisations.