Full Name
Andowah Newton
Job Title
Former Vice President, Legal Affairs & Head of Litigation
Company
LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton (Former)
Speaker Bio
Andowah Newton is an attorney and former CPA with over 20 years of legal and business experience working for or auditing organizations such as Johnson & Johnson, PwC, Viacom, Sony Music, Thomson Reuters, Ziff Davis, The Estée Lauder Companies, Hogan Lovells, Mintz Levin, The International Criminal Court, and LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton, where she was Vice President, Legal Affairs and Head of Litigation for 8 years.
As she searches for her next role, Andowah currently advises companies and think tanks as an expert on legal and business issues, such as antitrust litigation and enforcement, relevant to the luxury retail and consumer products industries.
Andowah is an AI and technology enthusiast and has regularly spoken at and attended legal conferences on emerging legal and regulatory developments in AI and tech. She spoke on AI litigation, regulatory, and enforcement developments at the Chief Litigation Officer Summit in June and as a featured VIP guest on the award-winning Data Diva Talks Privacy podcast last summer.
Andowah is a prolific speaker, delivering presentations at 30+ events worldwide on a wide range of legal and business topics. She has been interviewed in and published articles on a large variety of subject matters including ethics, data protection, and data privacy.
Andowah testified before the U.S. House of Representatives Judiciary Committee in 2022 and a Massachusetts State Legislature House Committee in 2023. She has been quoted by The New York Times, The Boston Globe, Law.com, NY1 News, Bloomberg Law, Ms. Magazine, The Capitol Forum, Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, and the late Congresswoman Sheila Jackson-Lee in the Harvard Journal on Legislation.
Andowah’s advocacy work on behalf of survivors has led to her public recognition by the President and Vice President of the United States. Andowah has also been recognized as a Global Top 100 Most Influential Person of African Descent: Law & Justice, Exemplary Alumni Awardee by Cornell Law, Phoenix of the Year by Womankind fka NY Asian Women’s Center, and Advocacy & Awareness Awardee by the Crime Victims Treatment Center. Most recently, Andowah’s journey has inspired a main storyline for the current season of Netflix's Emily in Paris.
Andowah was a Keynote panelist at WIPL 2022 and has served on its Advisory Board for 7 years.
Andowah possesses an undergraduate degree in Accounting and French from Georgetown University, a French business diploma from the Université de Lyon III, and dual law degrees in French and U.S. law from Cornell Law School and La Sorbonne.
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As she searches for her next role, Andowah currently advises companies and think tanks as an expert on legal and business issues, such as antitrust litigation and enforcement, relevant to the luxury retail and consumer products industries.
Andowah is an AI and technology enthusiast and has regularly spoken at and attended legal conferences on emerging legal and regulatory developments in AI and tech. She spoke on AI litigation, regulatory, and enforcement developments at the Chief Litigation Officer Summit in June and as a featured VIP guest on the award-winning Data Diva Talks Privacy podcast last summer.
Andowah is a prolific speaker, delivering presentations at 30+ events worldwide on a wide range of legal and business topics. She has been interviewed in and published articles on a large variety of subject matters including ethics, data protection, and data privacy.
Andowah testified before the U.S. House of Representatives Judiciary Committee in 2022 and a Massachusetts State Legislature House Committee in 2023. She has been quoted by The New York Times, The Boston Globe, Law.com, NY1 News, Bloomberg Law, Ms. Magazine, The Capitol Forum, Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, and the late Congresswoman Sheila Jackson-Lee in the Harvard Journal on Legislation.
Andowah’s advocacy work on behalf of survivors has led to her public recognition by the President and Vice President of the United States. Andowah has also been recognized as a Global Top 100 Most Influential Person of African Descent: Law & Justice, Exemplary Alumni Awardee by Cornell Law, Phoenix of the Year by Womankind fka NY Asian Women’s Center, and Advocacy & Awareness Awardee by the Crime Victims Treatment Center. Most recently, Andowah’s journey has inspired a main storyline for the current season of Netflix's Emily in Paris.
Andowah was a Keynote panelist at WIPL 2022 and has served on its Advisory Board for 7 years.
Andowah possesses an undergraduate degree in Accounting and French from Georgetown University, a French business diploma from the Université de Lyon III, and dual law degrees in French and U.S. law from Cornell Law School and La Sorbonne.
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