The FCC added senior staff to its Enforcement Bureau. Officials say the new personnel have experience and expertise in national security, foreign investment, privacy, data protection, cybersecurity, and consumer and civil litigation matters. These individuals join additional recent hires to the Enforcement Bureau’s front office leadership team that has been in place since 2023, including Deputy Bureau Chief Peter S. Hyun and Assistant Bureau Chief Hunter Deeley.
With focuses on privacy and data protection matters, Alice Suh Jou has joined the bureau as Assistant Bureau Chief and Jolina Cuaresma has joined the bureau as Senior Policy Counsel. Both will participate in the Enforcement Bureau-led Privacy and Data Protection Task Force, which was announced in June 2023.
“These newest additions to our outstanding team—and the expertise they bring— reflect our ongoing commitment to keep our information and communications networks safe while also enhancing consumers’ trust in the protection of their privacy and sensitive data,” said Enforcement Bureau Chief Loyaan A. Egal.
Alice Suh Jou joins the Enforcement Bureau from the U.S. Department of Justice’s National Security Division where she was an Acting Deputy Chief for telecom-related foreign investment in the Foreign Investment Review Section and a trial attorney in the Civil Division. At the Enforcement Bureau, Jou will be responsible for privacy, data security, and cybersecurity matters.
In 2023, Jou received the Attorney General’s Award for Distinguished Service for her efforts to address risks to sensitive U.S. data traversing global cloud platforms and critical infrastructure. She was most recently detailed to the Federal Trade Commission to investigate privacy and data security practices of foreign-owned entities.
Jolina Cuaresma joins the Enforcement Bureau after having served as the Head of Law & Tech Policy at the non-profit Common Sense Media, where she worked with government agencies and congressional committees on legislative proposals relating to privacy, competition, and AI. Cuaresma teaches regulatory strategy at her alma mater, the University of California at Berkeley School of Law, and was a Georgetown Law Fellow. She also worked at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, where she conducted rulemakings, drafted compliance examinations, and brought enforcement actions, respectively.
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