Biography
(From LinkedIn) Emerald de Leeuw is a globally recognised privacy and data protection specialist as well as an award-winning (former) entrepreneur, speaker and lecturer. She is currently the Global Head of Privacy at Logitech.
Prior to joining Logitech, she founded privacy-tech company; Eurocomply for which she won various awards such as European Young Innovator of the Year in 2017 and a 30 under 30 award. She started Eurocomply after writing her master thesis on the GDPR in 2012.
Forbes named her one of 100 European female founders to follow and she speaks regularly at leading conferences such as TEDx and has given talks at institutions such as MIT Sloan and the European Parliament. She is a Marshall Memorial fellow with the German Marshall Fund of the United States and is currently continuing her executive education at Stanford Graduate School of Business.
Emerald is an advocate for female leaders and is passionate about closing the funding-and pay gap for women.