The Center for Democracy & Technology (CDT) has announced the addition of Dr. Lorrie Cranor to its Board of Directors. Dr. Cranor is recognized for her expertise in privacy, security, and public policy and is currently part of the faculty at Carnegie Mellon University.

“I couldn’t be happier to have Dr. Cranor join the CDT board of directors,” stated Alexandra Reeve Givens, President and CEO of CDT. “Lorrie brings invaluable expertise not only in public policy but in the deep technical details of digital privacy and security. Over the course of her career she’s shown herself to be uniquely able to connect complicated technologies to the fundamental principles that matter to ordinary people with clarity and precision.”

Dr. Cranor holds several prestigious positions at Carnegie Mellon University, including Director of the CyLab Security and Privacy Institute, Bosch Distinguished Professor in Security and Privacy Technologies, and FORE Systems University Professor of Computer Science and Engineering and Public Policy. In 2016, she served as Chief Technologist at the US Federal Trade Commission. She co-founded Wombat Security Technologies, Inc., a company specializing in security awareness training.

Her contributions extend beyond academia; she has authored over 200 research papers, founded the Symposium On Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS), co-founded the Conference on Privacy Engineering Practice and Respect (PEPR), and chaired the Platform for Privacy Preferences Project (P3P) Specification Working Group at the World Wide Web Consortium.

Dr. Cranor joins a distinguished group of CDT Board members including Julie Brill, Bill Bernstein, Alexandra Reeve Givens, Peter Hustinx, Morten Kjaerum, Carl Landwehr, Travis LeBlanc, Katherine Maher, Bruce Mehlman, Laura W. Murphy, Lisa Rice, Philippa Scarlett, Mark Seifert, Dominique Shelton Leipzig, and David Vladeck.