Former DHS Privacy Chief Joins PwC
Former Homeland Security Department chief privacy officer Hugo Teufel has joined
PricewaterhouseCoopers as a director in the consulting firm's U.S. advisory practice. Teufel will focus on helping Fortune 500 organizations with issues involving the privacy and security of data, cyber crime and corruption and will be based in PwC's McLean, Va. office. While serving as Homeland Security's privacy czar, Teufel testified regularly before various House and Senate committees and reported annually to Congress on the activities of the department that affect privacy. He was also a principal of the High Level Contact Group, a joint United States-European Union effort on transatlantic exchanges of data. Before assuming that role Teufel served as associate general counsel for general law within the DHS Office of General Counsel. Before that, he served as associate solicitor for general law at the Interior Department. "We are extremely pleased to have Hugo Teufel join our team," PwC's Erik Skramstad said in a press release. "His in-depth experience with government and privacy policies, along with his extensive knowledge of privacy issues and compliance -- as well as identity theft and data loss prevention -- will enhance the value and fact-based counsel we provide to our clients on a daily basis."
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