Amadeus
Privacy Engineering Carnegie Mellon

Aurélie Pols designs data privacy best practices, documenting data flows, minimizing risk related to data uses, and solving for data quality.
Aurélie co-founded and sold her start-up OX2 in Belgium to Digitas LBi (Publicis) in the UK.
She works today for Amadeus as Business Privacy Specialist within the Hospitality Media Business unit, getting reacquainted with digital advertising, including programmatic through real time bidding products and services. She was part of the initial IAB TCF task force back in 2016 when working for DMP, data management platform, Krux acquired by Salesforce.

She then served as DPO, data protection officer, for NY-based CDP, customer data platform, mParticle, and was part of the EDPS’s EAG, Ethics Advisory Group. She taught Privacy & Ethics at IE Business School in Madrid for 6 years, supported DPO training courses, specifically around ePrivacy for Maastricht University’s faculty of law and was part of their European Center for Privacy and Cybersecurity (ECPC) board, supported IEEE’s P7002, and served as Privacy and Ethics advisor for H2020 projects.

Today she also gets familiar again with data governance, through her role as Business Data Owner for Hospitality Media, using Collibra.