Public policy and government affairs professional with more than a decade of experience. Over these years, Rita has been working for the most prominent and exciting tech companies in the world, either as an employee, an advisor or their trade association representative. Public Policy & Government Affairs Manager, she is responsible for data policy in Google’s Brussels office.

A Certified Information Privacy Professional (IAPP/E), she has a keen interest, knowledge and expertise in data related policy issues, including privacy, data protection, cyber-security, law enforcement access to data, cloud computing and others.

Rita studied law and international relations at a variety of academic institutions, such as ELTE (Hungary), Science-Po (France), Corvinus (Hungary), ESSCA (France) and ASE (Romania).