Clarisse is Head of the OECD’s Data Governance and Privacy (DGP) Unit, which supports the Organisation’s work in data governance, data flows and privacy.
Before taking up her OECD role in August 2022, Clarisse was based in Singapore, where she held a first position as Senior Fellow at the Asian Business Law Institute (ABLI), a pan-Asian legal think tank anchored at the Singapore Academy of Law (SAL). At ABLI, she launched and led a flagship project on the convergence of data privacy laws and data flow regulations in 14 Asian jurisdictions. In August 2021, she created the position of Managing Director of the APAC office of the Future of Privacy Forum (FPF), the world-leading US privacy think tank. She was also an adviser to the head of the TMT practice at Rajah & Tann Asia LLC, Singapore\’s leading law firm.
From 2001 to 2015, she held various positions at the French Data Protection Authority (CNIL), including head of the Department of European and International Affairs and senior advisor to the President and Secretary General in the years leading up to the adoption of the GDPR.
She was a Jersey Data Protection Authority (JDPA) member from October 2018 to June 2022.
Clarisse holds a Masters in Private Law and a postgraduate degree in Intellectual Property from the University of Paris Panthéon Assas, a Magister Juris (MJur) from the University of Oxford and a Doctorate (cum laude) in Comparative Law from the Tilburg Institute for Law, Technology, and Society (TILT) in the Netherlands.
