She advocates improving regulations and enforcement involving credit reporting, debt collection and in other financial areas. In her speeches, publications and meetings with a wide variety of stakeholders, Commission Brill calls on industry and policymakers to improve privacy by developing practical solutions rooted in both consumer protection and competition principles.Ĭommissioner Brill focuses on the need to improve consumer protection in the financial services arena. Brill has been working actively on issues of critical importance to today’s consumers, including protecting consumers’ privacy, encouraging appropriate advertising substantiation, guarding consumers from financial fraud, and maintaining competition in industries involving health care and high-tech.Ĭommissioner Brill is an advocate of protecting consumers’ privacy, especially with new online and mobile technologies, and supports the creation and implementation of mechanisms to give consumers better information and control over the collection and use of their personal online information. Commissioner Brill graduated, magna cum laude, from Princeton University, and from New York University School of Law, where she had a Root-Tilden Scholarship for her commitment to public service. She clerked for Vermont Federal District Court Judge Franklin S. Commissioner Brill was associate at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison in New York from 1987 to 1988. Before serving as Chief of Consumer Protection and Antitrust in North Carolina, Commissioner Brill served as an Assistant Attorney General for Consumer Protection and Antitrust for the State of Vermont for over 20 years, from 1988 to 2009. Commissioner Brill has also been a Lecturer-in-Law at Columbia University’s School of Law. Brill was the Senior Deputy Attorney General and Chief of Consumer Protection and Antitrust for the North Carolina Department of Justice, a position she held from February 2009 to April 2010. Julie Brill was sworn in as a Commissioner of the Federal Trade Commission April 6, 2010, to a term that expires on September 25, 2016. * 1977: Doctor of human sciences, Sorbonne, ParisĬommissioner, Federal Trade Commission, US Government * 2007 Member of the Board of Chapelle Musicale Reine Elisabeth (fondation d'utilité publique) * 2009 Member of the Board of Les Journées d'Echternach (association sans but lucratif) * 2009 Member of the Global Council of the Women's Forum * 1986-1998: President, Luxembourg Union of Journalists * 1978-1999: Journalist, Luxemburger Wort * 1979-1989: Member of the Parliament of Luxembourg * 1981-1999: City councillor, city of Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg * 1988-1993: National president of Christian-Social Women, Luxembourg * 1995-1999: Vice-president, Parti Chrétien-Social, Luxembourg * 1989-1999: Member of the European Parliament * 1999-2004: Member of the European Commission responsible for Education, Culture, Youth, Media, Sport
* 2004-2010: Member of the European Commission responsible for Information Society and Media Vice-President and Commissioner for Justice, Fundamental Rights and Citizenship, European Commission
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