Julie Brill

Julie Brill is Corporate Vice President, Deputy General Counsel, and Chief Privacy Officer at Microsoft, with responsibility for privacy, data protection and other regulatory issues. She joined Microsoft in 2017 from Hogan Lovells, where she served as Partner and Co-Director for the Privacy and Cybersecurity Practice. Before that, she served as Commissioner of the United States Federal Trade Commission. During her time as an FTC Commissioner, Brill established a reputation not just as a leading thinker, but as a highly effective champion for consumers on issues such as privacy, transparency, consumer protection and anti-trust. Before being appointed to the FTC, Brill spent more than two decades in public service at the state level. She served as senior deputy attorney general and chief of Consumer Protection and Antitrust for the state of North Carolina, and before that as assistant attorney general for Consumer Protection and Antitrust for the state of Vermont.