Christopher Kuner, partner in the Brussels office of Hunton & Williams, recently was reappointed to a fourth term as Chair of the International Chamber of Commerce (“ICC”) Task Force on Privacy and the Protection of Personal Data.  Based in Paris and founded in 1919, ICC  represents businesses around the world and has thousands of member companies and national committees in over 130 countries.  Mr. Kuner has been Chair of the Task Force since 2003, and also is a Vice-Chair of ICC’s Commission on E-Business, IT and Telecoms (“EBITT”).  He was reappointed to a further three-year term as Chair by ICC Secretary General Jean-Guy Carrier, who stated that Mr. Kuner’s “expertise and experience have been greatly appreciated and of high value to ICC’s work and the membership of the Commission.” 

Under Mr. Kuner’s chairmanship, the ICC Task Force’s accomplishments have included drafting the standard application form for Binding Corporate Rules that was approved by the Article 29 Working Party in 2007, negotiating the standard contractual clauses for data processors that were approved by the European Commission in 2010, and participating in every meeting of APEC’s Electronic Commerce Steering Group addressing cross-border data flows since the Steering Group began working on that topic.