Jordan Francis, JD

Jordan Francis is a Policy Counsel for U.S. Legislation and Regulation at the Future of Privacy Forum, where he supports expert, independent analysis of legislative and regulatory approaches to protecting data privacy interests. Jordan is also a Non-resident Fellow at the Cordell Institute for Policy in Medicine & Law at Washington University. Jordan’s scholarship on privacy and digital trust has been published in the Harvard Journal of Law & Technology, Minnesota Law Review, and Minnesota Law Review Headnotes.

During the 2022-23 academic year, Jordan worked as a Research Fellow for the Cordell Institute. During that time he co-authored several projects with Cordell Institute Faculty Co-director Neil Richards and Non-resident Fellow Woodrow Hartzog, including comments to the Federal Trade Commission on the agency’s “commercial surveillance” advanced notice of proposed rulemaking, a letter to the National Telecommunications and Information Administration on artificial intelligence accountability, and a law review article and model statute on the duty of data loyalty. Jordan also authored a law review article on behavioral advertising and the General Data Protection Regulation.

Jordan received his J.D. from the University of Minnesota Law School in 2022, completing the Intellectual Property and Technology Law Concentration. While at Minnesota Law, Jordan cofounded the Privacy, Cybersecurity, and Technology Law Association, a student organization focused on helping students find careers in the field of privacy and data protection. He also served as a managing editor on the Minnesota Law Review, during which time his student note on international data protection was published. Prior to law school, Jordan graduated with a double major in mathematics and economics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.