Christina Ayiotis

Christina Ayiotis serves as Assistant General Counsel, Cyber Security, Privacy, Records, & AI at Lumen Technologies. Prior roles include teaching a Masters Level Information Policy class at The George Washington University Department of Computer Science; Vice President, Security Services at Options Clearing Corporation; Chief Cybersecurity Officer at WiseLaw; and Deputy General Counsel, Information Governance at Computer Sciences Corporation. As a pro bono exercise, she created and donated the Georgetown Cybersecurity Law Institute to Georgetown Law Center. She served for four years on AFCEA International’s Cyber Committee, as well as on the Cyber Security Canon. She led global programs at Booz Allen Hamilton, Ernst & Young International, and Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu.

Ms. Ayiotis earned her Juris Doctorate from William & Mary Law School; her BS in Biology and her BA in Philosophy (Minors in Mathematics & French) magna cum laude / University Honors from Virginia Commonwealth University; and her Certificate in AI Strategy from Cornell University. She has been an active Member in Good Standing of the Virginia State Bar since 1991; the District of Columbia Bar since 1993; and holds court admissions in the US Courts of Appeals for the Fourth and Federal Circuits; the District of Columbia Court of Appeals; the Virginia Supreme Court; and the US Court of International Trade. She served on the Boards of Directors of ARCS MWC, Fairfax Law Foundation, ARMA NOVA, Hellenic American Women's Council, and Women’s Bar Association of DC. She earned a Zertifikat Deutsch als Fremdsprache from the Goethe Institute and studied French at the Alliance Française, Paris. She is a Certified Records Manager (since 2008), a Certified Information Privacy Professional/Europe (since 2023), and a Certified Artificial Intelligence Governance Professional (since August 15, 2024). Most importantly, she is the extremely proud single Mom of a PhD Candidate in Biomedical Neuroengineering at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.