Adam Schlosser
Founder and Principal
Adam has extensive experience in the private sector and the U.S. government, advising on complex legal challenges and efficiently achieving positive regulatory outcomes. He focuses most frequently on data privacy, cross-border data flows, AI ethics, and blockchain, but also has assisted on a diverse range of regulatory issues related to market expansion, product launch, and compliance, including standards development, investment, labeling, and conformity assessment.
He has represented companies, non-profit organizations, and the U.S. government directly in front of more than 25 countries as well as in multilateral settings such as the World Trade Organizations and OECD, and multistakeholder settings such as ICANN.
He developed deep knowledge of the needs of enterprise cloud companies while building a global strategy at Workday as the Director of International Public Policy.
He also helped launch the World Economic Forum’s Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution in San Francisco, where he shaped global policy developments related to data protection and cross-border data flows and led education and capacity building efforts to ensure policymakers, private sector, and civil society crafted a supportive policy and regulatory environment to capture benefits from emerging and rapidly changing technologies.
He began his career as a Presidential Management Fellow drafting U.S. regulations impacting over $5 billion and also served with the USDA Foreign Agricultural Service, serving as lead U.S. delegate for food and agriculture issues at the WTO Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade (TBT) as well as participating in bilateral and multilateral negotiations with foreign officials.
His practice is built on a foundation of administrative law and he has worked extensively on building good regulatory practice around the world.