A Conversation With Giovanni Buttarelli

Tuesday, March 10, 2015
Dado Ruvic/Courtesy Reuters
Speaker
Giovanni Buttarelli

European Data Protection Supervisor

Presider
Daniel M. Price

Managing Director, Rock Creek Global Advisors LLC

Giovanni Buttarelli, European data protection supervisor, discusses the strategy for his five year mandate and other data protection issues in Europe and around the world.

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