Becky Burr

Country:	USA
Email:	beckwith.burr [at] wilmerhale.com
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Formerly a member of ICANN's ccNSO

J. Beckwith (“Becky”) Burr is the Chief Privacy Officer at Neustar. Prior to joining Neustar, Ms. Burr was a partner at the Washington D.C. law firm Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr, LLP. She is a veteran of the Federal Trade Commission and the National Telecommunications & Information Administration. Becky left the government in October of 2000 to practice law. At WilmerHale, Becky focuses on the regulatory and transactional aspects of e-commerce law. Ms. Burr has considerable experience in e-commerce, information technology, intellectual property licensing, and the international regulation of communications and information technology.

Mr. Burr has been a member of the ccNSO since 2006; she is currently serving her second term as a councillor on the ccNSO Council, which is set to expire in 2012. She holds one of the three seats that is filled by the NomCom.

Work

Ms. Burr assists multinational corporations from a variety of industry sectors in developing and implementing enterprise-wide data protection compliance programs. She advises existing and prospective operators of Internet top-level domain Registries with respect to ICANN. Ms. Burr also advises clients on international privacy and data security regulations, consumer protection, consumer credit regulations, financial privacy, and anti-money laundering regulations.

Becky is on the board of directors of Alan Westin’s Center for Social and Legal Research and is a founding member of the board of directors of the International Association of Privacy Professionals.

Career History

As an Attorney-Advisor at the Federal Trade Commission (January 1995 - June 1997), Ms. Burr was responsible for competition and consumer protection policy in connection with information industry/electronic information infrastructure. At the Commission, she participated in developing the FTC’s approach to competition and consumer protection in the digital marketplace.

At the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (“NTIA”), first as Senior Internet Policy Advisor (June 1997 - December 1997) and subsequently as Associate Administrator and Director of International Affairs (December 1997 - October 2000), Becky was responsible for the formulation, analysis, and implementation of Internet and information technology policy as well as international telecommunications and information technology policies. As a member of the Clinton Administration’s inter-agency task force on e-commerce, she was responsible for development and implementation of Administration policy on Internet governance and privacy and chaired the US working group on privatization of the Internet domain name system.

Awards

• Becky Burr was cited as a ‘Leading Lawyer’ in ‘The Legal 500 United States’ in the year 2009, for her work in media, telecommunications and technology, and especially in the areas of privacy and data-protection.
• She was also cited in editions of ‘Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business’ in three consecutive years from 2007 to 2009.
• She was also included in ‘The Best Lawyers in America’ in the years 2007 through to 2010, for her work in the legal aspects of Information Technology. Her peers voted to give her this distinction.

Publications

Becky is an adjunct professor at the George Washington University Law School, and writes and speaks frequently on privacy and e-commerce issues. Her writings have appeared in Privacy and American Business, the Privacy Officers Advisor, and E-commerce Law. She has addressed Congress and international audiences, including the WTO, the ITU, and the OECD.

Education

Becky has a BA in American Studies from Yale and a JD from Georgetown University Law Center.

International Telecommunication Union