Farah Yasmin Zaman (DC 2009)

2019 Outstanding Young Alumni Award

Bio

Farah Yasmin Zaman is senior global data privacy counsel at Colgate-Palmolive, leading compliance efforts and advising on the company’s use of personal data. Her work ranges from advising on incident response to counseling on the Internet of Things and development of connected products and direct to consumer initiatives in markets around the world.

Farah is a member of the International Association of Privacy Professionals and the Future of Privacy Forum and advisor to the CMU-K&L Gates Endowment for Ethics & Computational Technologies. Previously, she was an agency attorney in the Office of Data Privacy for the New York City Human Resources Administration/Department of Social Services. 

Passionate about women’s rights and social entrepreneurship, Farah serves as an officer of Legal Hackers and chair of the International Women’s Rights Committee of the New York County Women’s Bar Association, among others. She is on the advisory board of The Resolution Project, a nonprofit supporting undergraduates starting social enterprises, the Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences Board of Advisors and CMU NY Metro Alumni Network board. Farah regularly participates in the Under Construction program on CMU’s campus, hosted the CMU Law Alumni dinner in New York and guest lectured on campus.