Anitha S. Ibrahim joined AWS’s public policy team in September 2021 and focuses on public policy issues related to cybersecurity, data protection, privacy, and content moderation. In this role, she works on issues related to cross-border data flows, digital sovereignty, government access to data, and data localization, among other areas. Anitha currently serves as a board member of the Cross-Border Data Forum, and on the experts advisory committee to the Future of Privacy Forum’s Privacy and Cybersecurity Group.  Anitha started her legal career in 2007 as a federal prosecutor in the U.S. Department of Justice where she spent over a decade prosecuting technology facilitated criminal activity and working on key cyber and electronic evidence policy issues, both domestic and international.

Anitha has received a number of awards over her career including recognition as a 40 under 40 Women Cybersecurity leader by Cyber Express in 2024, Forbes Women in Watch in Cybersecurity in 2022, Yahoo’s Trust Builder Award in 2020, and the U.S. Department of Justice Attorney General’s Award in 2018.