Jeffrey Ritter

Jeffrey Ritter has pursued the challenge of how to achieve digital trust since 1982. His passion for doing so has taken him around the world and throughout cyberspace. Lawyer, entrepreneur, academic researcher, UN contributor on the global legal framework for online electronic commerce and international trade, and professor--through all of these roles, Jeffrey has evolved and adapted with each new generation of technology.

Today, Jeffrey serves as an external lecturer at the University of Oxford and Johns Hopkins University, teaching graduate level courses he has created on information governance, privacy engineering, and information security policy structures.

In earlier years, he was the founding chair of the ABA Committee on Cyberspace Law, the co-founder of the DataLaw Report, chaired the national technology practice of a major law firm, created and launched the Ritter Academy, and served as an adjunct professor at Georgetown University Law Center. His innovations in visualizing legal systems for effective legal education has been featured at national conferences.

Jeffrey is an active contributing author on the Internet, including on YouTube, BrightTalk, SearchCIO and SearchCompliance.com, a frequent public speaker domestically and internationally, and an advisor to c-level executives. He maintains a website at www.jeffreyritter.com.