Colleen Brown

Colleen Theresa Brown handles privacy, cybersecurity, data protection, artificial intelligence (AI), and emerging technology issues for a diverse group of companies, including those in the financial, life sciences, tech, energy, telecommunications, media, retail, and manufacturing sectors. She has focused her practice on digital risk management. This includes compliance, digital governance, investigations, litigation and regulatory enforcement, and crisis management related to privacy, data rights, digital safety, AI, cybersecurity, and data breaches.

At Sidley, Colleen co-founded Women in Privacy^® (WIP), a networking group for women working as in-house counsel, compliance officers, and other professionals in the field of privacy. WIP holds regular meetings in the U.S. and the EU and is dedicated to thought leadership for women privacy professionals. She is a frequent speaker, writer, and commenter on privacy and cybersecurity legal developments affecting all industries, and the chief editor of the Sidley Blog Data Matters.

Colleen is a Certified Information Privacy Professional (CIPP)/United States and a certified Artificial Intelligence Governance Professional (AIGP) through the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP). She earned her J.D. at the University of Pennsylvania Law School, and her Bachelor of Arts from Loyola University Maryland.