Hugh Stevenson

Hugh Stevenson is the U.S. Federal Trade Commission's Deputy Director for International Consumer Protection. He has served on the U.S. delegations of several international organizations, and currently heads the U.S. delegation to the OECD Committee on Consumer Policy.

He has also served as a moderator for various FTC and OECD workshops focusing on international issues, including jurisdiction, judgment recognition, alternative dispute resolution, and spam. He has made presentations to congressional committees, and to international organizations and other audiences on five continents. He coordinated FTC work on the 2006 U.S. SAFE WEB Act on international enforcement cooperation, and has led the negotiation of enforcement cooperation arrangements with agencies in Australia, Canada, Ireland, Mexico, Spain, and the United Kingdom.

As the FTC’s Associate Director for Planning & Information, he led the establishment of the FTC’s Consumer Response Center; the FTC’s identity theft program; and the Consumer Sentinel complaint system, now accessible to more than 1,000 U.S. and foreign enforcement partners. He has also litigated for the FTC, for state government, and in private practice.  He is a graduate of the Harvard Law School, and is an Adjunct Professor teaching comparative privacy law at the Georgetown University Law Center.