Fred Cate
Executive Director
Fred H. Cate is a Distinguished Professor, C. Ben Dutton Professor of Law, and Adjunct Professor of Informatics and Computing at Indiana University. He is also a senior advisor to Red Barn Strategy, a strategic consulting firm he created with Stan Crosley that partners with government and private organizations to advance strategic data management, security, and use.
Professor Cate specializes in information security and privacy law and has testified before numerous congressional committees and served on advisory groups for many professional, industry, and government groups including DHS, DOD, NSA, FTC, OECD, the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine, the United Nations, Microsoft, Intel, and many other organizations. He chaired the National Academies study on Law Enforcement and Intelligence Access to Encrypted Content. He served as the founding director of IU’s Center for Applied Cybersecurity Research from 2003 to 2014, where he is now a senior fellow, and IU’s Center for Law, Ethics & Applied Research in Health Information from 2010 to 2015. He served from 2001 to 2021 as a Senior Policy Advisor at The Centre for Information Policy Leadership at Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP.
He is the author of more than 200 articles and books, served as the privacy editor for the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers’ Security & Privacy, and was one of the founding editors of the Oxford University Press journal, International Data Privacy Law. Professor Cate attended Oxford University and received his J.D. and his A.B. with Honors and Distinction from Stanford University. A former Senator and President of the Phi Beta Kappa Society, he is a fellow of Phi Beta Kappa andthe American Bar Foundation, and an elected member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the American Law Institute. He is chair-elect of the Indiana State Museum and Historic Sites.
Fred Cate
Executive Director
Fred H. Cate is a Distinguished Professor, C. Ben Dutton Professor of Law, and Adjunct Professor of Informatics and Computing at Indiana University. He is also a senior advisor to Red Barn Strategy, a strategic consulting firm he created with Stan Crosley that partners with government and private organizations to advance strategic data management, security, and use.
Professor Cate specializes in information security and privacy law and has testified before numerous congressional committees and served on advisory groups for many professional, industry, and government groups including DHS, DOD, NSA, FTC, OECD, the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine, the United Nations, Microsoft, Intel, and many other organizations. He chaired the National Academies study on Law Enforcement and Intelligence Access to Encrypted Content. He served as the founding director of IU’s Center for Applied Cybersecurity Research from 2003 to 2014, where he is now a senior fellow, and IU’s Center for Law, Ethics & Applied Research in Health Information from 2010 to 2015. He served from 2001 to 2021 as a Senior Policy Advisor at The Centre for Information Policy Leadership at Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP.
He is the author of more than 200 articles and books, served as the privacy editor for the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers’ Security & Privacy, and was one of the founding editors of the Oxford University Press journal, International Data Privacy Law. Professor Cate attended Oxford University and received his J.D. and his A.B. with Honors and Distinction from Stanford University. A former Senator and President of the Phi Beta Kappa Society, he is a fellow of Phi Beta Kappa andthe American Bar Foundation, and an elected member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the American Law Institute. He is chair-elect of the Indiana State Museum and Historic Sites.