Leandro Angelo Y. Aguirre is the Deputy Privacy Commissioner of the National Privacy Commission. He has served as such since February 2018. He steered the Commission’s policy direction by initiating and developing issuances and projects integral to the growth of data privacy in the Philippines.

He received his Juris Doctor degree from the University of the Philippines College of Law and his Master of Laws from Harvard Law School. He is a member of both the Philippine Bar and the New York State Bar.

He is also a member of the academe, having taught various subjects at the University of the Philippines College of Law since 2013. He co-authored the book “Privacy and Data Protection Law in the Philippines” which examines the right to informational privacy in the Philippine privacy regulatory framework. He served as an advisor on the bill that eventually became the Data Privacy Act of 2012.