Heather West

Heather West works on security, data governance, net neutrality, and privacy in the digital age at Mozilla, maker of the Firefox browser. At the intersection of public policy and technology, she is part policy-to-tech translator, part product consultant, and part long-term internet strategist. She works was recognised as one of the 2014 Forbes 30 Under 30 in Law and Policy.

Ms West helped found the public policy team at Cloudflare, a website performance and security company, served as privacy and security issue expert on Google’s public policy team, and started her career working on government technology, privacy, and identity management at the Center for Democracy and Technology.

She holds a dual BA in Computer Science and Cognitive Science from Wellesley College with concentrations in philosophy and legal studies, and is a Certified Information Privacy Professional (CIPP/US). She is also recognised as a Christian Science Monitor Passcode Influencer and serves on several advisory boards.