Julie Brill
Julie Brill is a globally recognized authority in the fields of technology, regulation, and governance, with more than three decades of leadership shaping how businesses and governments navigate complex digital and AI challenges. Julie has been consistently recognized as one of the foremost voices in privacy, data protection, cybersecurity, AI governance, antitrust, and consumer protection.
Most recently, Julie served as Corporate Vice President and Chief Privacy Officer at Microsoft, where she led the company’s global privacy, safety, and regulatory affairs strategy through a period of intense technological and geopolitical change. With a span of control of 250 and broad influence across the business, she drove global adoption and operationalization of the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), advanced responsible approaches to AI governance, and helped define policy frameworks that are now foundational to how global companies manage trust, risk, and accountability.
Prior to Microsoft, Julie served as a Commissioner of the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC), where she helped set enforcement and policy priorities for the digital economy, authored landmark decisions in consumer protection and competition, and participated in transatlantic efforts to address transatlantic data flows and other trust issues between the US and theEuropean Union. Earlier in her career, Julie served as a Partner at Hogan Lovells and in senior leadership roles within state Attorneys General offices, advising organizations through high-stakes regulatory, litigation, and policy challenges spanning privacy, advertising, consumer protection, and cybersecurity.
In 2025, Julie launched Brill Strategies to advise global enterprises on regulatory change and governance, and she became an Expert-in-Residence at Harvard Law School and a Visiting Fellow at Berkman-Klein Center for the Internet and Society.
Board Director, Ethyca
Julie provides strategic guidance on privacy governance, regulatory strategy, and responsible AI as Ethyca scales enterprise-grade privacy engineering infrastructure.
2025 - PresentExpert in Residence and Visiting Fellow, Harvard Law School
As an Expert in Residence and Visiting Fellow at Harvard Law School, Julie advises and mentors students as they launch and grow trustworthy AI products and systems, and she works on tech and regulatory policy development with the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society.
2025 - PresentCorporate Vice President and Chief Privacy Officer, Microsoft
At Microsoft Julie directed the company’s regulatory strategy during a period of significant technological and regulatory change. She championed responsible and efficient approaches to AI, drove large-scale organizational alignment across global governance and policy frameworks, built strategic technology solutions, and influenced policy worldwide.
2017 - 2025Commissioner, U.S. Federal Trade Commission
At the FTC, Julie set agency-wide priorities across policy and enforcement, authored decisions shaping digital competition and consumer protection, and helped naviagate transatlantic geopolitical and regulatory issus. Widely recognized as “the Commission’s most important voice on internet privacy and data security issues,” Julie played a defining role in establishing global regulatory norms for the digital economy.
2010 - 2016Partner, Hogan Lovells
As leader of the privacy and cybersecurity group at Hogan Lovells, a global law firm, Julie advised multinational enterprises on cybersecurity, advertising, privacy, and data protection strategy across complex global regulatory environments.
2016 - 2017Deputy Attorney General for Consumer Protection and Competition, North Carolina Department of Justice
Assistant Attorney General for Consumer Protection and Competition, Vermont Attorney General’s Office
Designed and executed litigation, legislative and regulatory strategies at the state level in a wide variety of areas affecting consumers and businesses, including privacy, consumer protection, antitrust, utilities, banking, insurance, security, health care, and food and drug matters. Served as Chair of the National Association of Attorneys General Privacy Working Group, setting strategic direction for State Attorneys General Offices on privacy and security issues.
1991 - 2010Julie brings rare, end-to-end credibility across regulation, enterprise operations, and global governance. For Ethyca, her leadership strengthens the company’s position as the trusted partner for organizations building durable privacy and AI governance programs, and reinforces the seriousness of Ethyca’s mission with board-level expertise that resonates with regulators, CISOs, general counsels, and C-suites alike.