Federal Trade Commission. Ms. Ratté investigates and prosecutes violations of U.S. federal laws governing the privacy and security of consumer information. She brought the FTC’s first enforcement actions under the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Safeguards Rule, as well as the FTC’s case against the data broker ChoicePoint. Ms. Ratté formerly served as counsel for international consumer protection in the FTC’s Office of International Affairs, where she worked on a number of international policy initiatives dealing with privacy and data security, including the project to establish cross-border privacy rules in the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC). She is a magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College and Duke Law School.