Barbara Cosgrove – VIPSS26

Vice President, Chief Privacy and Digital Trust Officer, Workday

Barbara Cosgrove is Vice President, Chief Privacy and Digital Trust Officer at Workday, the enterprise AI platform for people, money, and agents. During her tenure at Workday, Barbara has advocated for Workday globally on data protection matters, championed the company’s global data privacy strategy, and created Workday’s initial AI governance program. Barbara also served as Chief Security Officer at Workday. Barbara is Vice-Chair of the Board of Directors of the IAPP and is on the AI Leadership Council and Privacy Advisory Board of Future of Privacy Forum. She co-chaired the Responsible AI Institute’s Employment Working Group. She is a Certified Information Privacy Professional (CIPP/E) with extensive experience in building and leading international data privacy, ethics, security, technical compliance and HR compliance programs.