Dr. Rehana Harasgama

Rehana Harasgama is a leading expert in data, technology and information law. She advises clients on complex data protection and cybersecurity questions including the design of data governance and compliance frameworks, major cross-border disclosures, privacy-by-design in emerging technologies and new business models, data-driven M&A transactions and data breach response planning. Her work spans the full information lifecycle – collection, storage and strategic use of data – and covers digital economy regulation including platform law, adtech, and artificial intelligence.

She has held in-house roles, notably as Data Protection Officer at Ernst & Young Switzerland, and gained further international experience during a secondment at Bird & Bird LLP in London. Recognised as a Legal 500 Rising Star / Leading Lawyer and by Leaders League for data privacy (2023-2025), she combines legal precision with practical insight.

Rehana lectures at the University of St. Gallen (HSG) and its Executive School and is a contributing author to the Basler Kommentar zum Datenschutzgesetz and the Online Kommentar on the revised Swiss Data Protection Act.

She is co-founder of the Swiss Association for AI Law and serves on the advisory board of the Swiss IT Women Lawyers Association. During her Ph.D. at HSG, she was a visiting researcher at Harvard Law School’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society.