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Full biography
One of the Fortune 1000's first chief privacy officers, Harriet has since the year 2000 been responsible for IBM's global information policies and practices affecting more than 320,000 employees and tens of thousands of clients and individuals. She is known for pushing the envelope and setting progressive corporate policies and practices that build trust in areas as diverse as health care and genetics to RFID and international data flows. As regulatory policy leader for IBM, a new role, Harriet leads the development and execution of a proactive regulatory and policy strategy across IBM’s legal function. Harriet reports to IBM’s SVP Legal and Regulatory Affairs & General Counsel. Harriet has been a member of IBM’s senior leadership team of approximately 300 executives, appointed by the Chairman and CEO, since late 2000.
Harriet holds an appointment as Adjunct Lecturer in Georgetown University’s Communication, Culture & Technology Master’s program, where she teaches a seminar on Trust, Privacy & Security. She is a Board member of the International Association of Privacy Professionals, the Center for Information Policy Leadership, and the Anatolia College (a private American K-thru-college school in Greece).
From 2002 until 1Q 2007, she also held executive positions in IBM’s Communications and Human Resources groups, leading initiatives such as the redesign of the company’s global performance management system; the launch of the company’s alumni relations strategy and portal; and the development and execution of global communications campaigns on IBM’s engagement in societal issues such as healthcare and energy. From 1993 until her appointment as Chief Privacy Officer in 2000, Harriet held increasingly responsible roles in the company’s Governmental Programs group, culminating in her first executive role as Director of Public Affairs in 1997. In that group she was responsible for global public policy issue management in a broad range of areas including privacy, health care, labor law, telecommunications, environment and energy.
Before joining IBM in 1993, Harriet practiced environmental law with the firm now known as Bracewell & Guiliani in Washington, D.C. and worked in the Gulf of Mexico as an engineer with Shell Oil in New Orleans. She holds a J.D. (Order of the Coif) from the UCLA School of Law, where she was Editor-in-Chief of the UCLA Journal of Environmental Law & Policy. She graduated from Princeton University with a B.S.E. cum laude; at Princeton she was the CEO of Travel 101, the campus travel agency and at the time one of the school’s largest student-run businesses. She was admitted to the bars in Virginia and the District of Columbia.
Harriet works out of IBM’s Washington, D.C. office and Armonk, NY headquarters. She lives in Arlington, Virginia with her husband and two school-age children. She speaks frequently to business, government and other audiences and sings with the DC-based, 100-woman Potomac Harmony Chorus. A first-generation American, Harriet speaks Greek fluently.
April 2007
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