What led you to the idea of founding Flox?
Round C
- PETs enabling B2B data use with Adhiraj Saxena, Manager , Data Innovation and Protection Group, IMDA
- Addressing consumer perceptions on PETs with Vijay Thekkemakkadath, Senior Director, Data Science, Visa
- PETs and privacy risks and trade-offs with Christian Reimsbach-Kounatze, Information Economist and Policy Analyst, OECD
Christian Reimsbach-Kounatze
Information Economist and Policy Analyst
OECD
Christian Reimsbach-Kounatze is an Information Economist/Policy Analyst at the OECD Directorate for Science, Technology and Innovation (STI), where he has been working on topics related to the digital economy since 2008 and more specifically on data governance since 2010.
Since 2010, Christian has been leading OECD projects on data governance including: the OECD project on Data-driven Innovation, Enhancing Access to and Sharing of Data, and Data Portability. He is currently co-ordinating Phase III of the OECD Going Digital Project that focusses on Data Governance for Growth and Well-being, and is leading OECD work on “Emerging Privacy Enhancing Technology: Maturity, opportunities and challenges”.
Before joining the OECD, Christian worked as a researcher at the Institute for Information and Market Engineering of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and at SAP Research (Germany). Christian holds a Diploma in Information Science, Engineering and Management and in Economics, both granted by the KIT.
Vijay Thekkemakkadath
Senior Director, Data Science
Visa
Adhiraj Saxena
Senior Lead, Business Technology Incubation, Singapore IMDA
IMDA
Adhiraj is from the Singapore Government’s IMDA agency. He is the senior lead for its PET unit. As member of the PET Summit’s board, he helped bring the inaugural Asia Pacific PET Summit to Singapore in 2022. He sits in OECD’s PET Experts Workgroup to advice the G7 strategy on trusted data flow and AI safety. He has a background in data science and product development.