IAPP Europe Data Protection Congress 2025

Princess Beatrice founded By – Eq Limited in 2022, an advisory association focused on adding more exceptional emotional intelligence in an age of artificial intelligence. She is an executive in residence at Liontree advisors, working to support Liontree with their global growth strategy. She is also advisor to Scale.ai and Healwell Ai, an AI healthcare tech solution.

Beatrice is a trustee and co-founder of The Big Change Charitable Trust, which identifies and supports charitable projects throughout the U.K., to reimagine education. She is a champion of women in leadership and has worked and spoken at a range of events across the world working to promote role models for positive leadership development. She is dyslexic and as such, is a champion for neurodiversity in the workplace as well as a supporter of a range of institutions working with dyslexia.

Beatrice is also p atron of a variety of education and leadership-focused institutions . She is a board member of Opus, a not-for-profit membership association for the next generation. Beatrice recently joined the Generation Connect Global Visionaries Board of The International Telecommunication Union , the United Nations specialised agency for information and communication technologies.

Cristina Caffarra is an antitrust expert economist who was head of European competition at Charles River Associates for over 20 years — leading large teams and giving expert testimony in Europe and across the world on some of the most high-profile cases of the past two decades. Moving on from consulting, she co-founded the Competition Research Policy Network at the Centre for Economic Policy Research, where she curates and hosts multiple policy discussions. She has been a vocal contributor — speaking and writing extensively — to the global debate on antitrust and regulation of digital markets. She has shaped the European conversation around the role of antitrust as a tool of broader economic policy by advocating for the integration of antitrust and data protection, and encouraging new thinking around how antitrust can contribute to equitable economic growth. She hosts and curates a celebrated annual conference in Brussels on antitrust and the political economy. She is now the lead of the EuroStack Industry Initiative in Europe. She is an honorary professor at UCL in London.

Joe Jones serves as the director of research and insights for the IAPP. Leading the research and insights team, he provides strategic direction and contributes to the development of practical content for privacy professionals on privacy law and policy, data protection management, and privacy technology and engineering. This work includes engaging with privacy leaders from industry, government, academia and civil society as he keeps IAPP members informed on data protection developments around the world.

Previously, Jones served as the deputy director for international data transfers with the U.K. government where he led the team responsible for U.K. government policies relating to free and secure flow of data internationally. This included work on data adequacy partnerships, alternative transfer mechanisms and multilateral initiatives that promote the trusted exchange of data across borders. Other prior roles include serving as the U.K. government’s deputy head of digital trade policy and working in the private sector as a lawyer on international data issues with Covington & Burling LLP.

Jones has been globally acknowledged as a leader in privacy law and policy. In 2022, Politico named him as the fourth most influential ‘rulemaker’ in Europe as well as the digital policy ‘Wonk of the week’ in September 2021.

He has led dozens of U.K. government diplomatic delegations or missions, holds over 200 public and private speaking credits on data protection and transfers and has contributed frequently to academic and professional publications, including the National Law Review.

He received his BA in Jurisprudence (Law) with honors from the University of Oxford and his Legal Practitioner Course with honors from the University of Law.

Carl Öhman is an assistant professor in political science at Uppsala University, Sweden. He earned his Ph.D. in 2020 from the University of Oxford, under the supervision of Luciano Floridi. His research spans several topics, including the politics and ethics of artificial intelligence, deepfakes and digital remains. It has been covered by media outlets such as The New York Times, The Economist, BBC and TIME Magazine. In 2020, Öhman was named the U.K.’s No. 1 early career researcher in the arts and humanities by Scopus.