Jesse Lieberfeld

Jesse Lieberfeld is the Computer and Communications Industry Association’s Policy Counsel, advocating for CCIA’s initiatives regarding cybersecurity, data privacy, and law enforcement access to data. Before joining CCIA, Jesse served as an associate attorney with Xtrategy LLP, where he advised the Securities and Exchange Commission’s Office of the Chief Data Officer on data governance, administrative law, and regulatory compliance. Jesse previously worked as a legal fellow for the University of California Davis’s Information Security Office. There, he reviewed vendor contracts and data sharing agreements and advised the university on privacy, information security risks, and PCI-DSS compliance. He was previously the Microsoft Digital Civil Liberties Fellow at the Cordell Institute for Policy in Law and Medicine, and has interned at the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC), the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, and Bay Area Legal Aid. 

Jesse holds a J.D. from Washington University in St. Louis School of Law and a Bachelor’s Degree in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics from Pomona College. During law school, Jesse received the International Association of Privacy Professionals’ Westin Scholar Award for outstanding achievements in data privacy law. His work has been published in Lawfare and Boston University Law Review.