Jadzia Pierce is the Director of Global Privacy Policy for Microsoft, where she advocates for the company’s policy priorities while helping internal business teams “see around corners” and anticipate broader legal trends on a global scale. She previously served as the cybersecurity associate general counsel for McKinsey & Company.

Prior to these in-house counsel roles, Ms. Pierce was an associate in Covington & Burling’s Privacy & Cybersecurity practice group, where she counseled multiple Fortune 100 clients regarding the shifting privacy legal landscape at the state, federal, and international level and assisted corporate legal, engineering, and operations teams in bringing their global privacy programs into compliance. She also served as a Privacy, Surveillance, & Security Fellow for the Center for Democracy & Technology.

Ms. Pierce lives in the DC area with her husband and black Labrador retriever puppy (her pride and joy).