Richard Salgado

Richard Salgado teaches at Stanford Law School and Harvard Law School. He serves as an Advisory Board member of American University Washington College of Law’s Tech Law and Security Program, a visiting fellow on security and S\surveillance with the Cross-Border Data Forum, a non-resident affiliate with the Center for Strategic and International Studies’ Strategic Technologies Program, and a non-resident fellow at Stanford Law School’s Center for Internet and Society. His academic work has been published by Lawfare, the Hoover Institution, CNN, the Harvard Law Review Forum, and the Yale Law Journal, among others. Richard has testified before the U.S. Congress ten times on issues including cross-border investigations, foreign information operations, election security, extremist content, and government surveillance. He also serves as an expert witness on U.S. surveillance law. Richard has a consultancy, providing strategic guidance to organizations navigating complex cybersecurity and surveillance challenges. He was Google's director of law enforcement and information security for 13 years, where he oversaw Google's response worldwide to national security and law enforcement demands for data and assistance as well as legal matters relating to security, information sharing, and investigations involving serious crime on the platforms, among other duties. Richard was with Yahoo! before joining Google, served as a prosecutor with the Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section of the U.S. Department of Justice, and worked as a trial lawyer with Cooley Godward. Richard was also an adjunct professor at Georgetown University Law Center and George Mason Law School, and a faculty member of the National Judicial College.