Partap Verma

Senior Privacy Counsel

Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation

Partap Verma is currently the Senior Privacy Counsel at the Federal Insurance Deposit Corporation. He has practiced FOIA, Privacy Law and Information Sharing for the past 18 years at 3 different Federal Agencies. During his time at the U.S. Department of State, Partap worked on negotiating, drafting and implementing interagency information sharing agreements involving the sharing of sensitive national security data with a variety of intel agencies including the CIA, NSA, FBI, TSA, TSC and NCTC. He also worked as a Diplomat in India and Turkey – where he worked on sensitive matters including biometric programming and technology transfer issues.  As an attorney at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Partap was the primary counsel assigned to the Department’s $3 Billion Transformation Project – which was the largest paper to electronic transition in the Agency’s history. He was among the first to be a part of an effort to successfully implement Agile Development in conjunction with real-time Privacy legal analysis and was also recognized for creating a fully custom in-house identity proofing system – that was also recognized as the first of its kind in the federal space.

As Senior Privacy Counsel at the FDIC, Partap manages all Privacy inquiries from across FDIC’s 7 Regional/Field Offices as well as its main headquarters in Washington D.C. and Arlington Virginia. He also approves all Privacy compliance documents like SORNs, PIA, PTA as well as Information Sharing Agreements. Most notably, he was recently recognized for drafting and finalizing an Information Sharing Agreement with the State of NY and NYC in record time – after the failure of Signature Bank. Partap is a certified mediator and has conducted over 75 EEO related mediations. He received his J.D. with Honors from the Pennsylvania State University School of Law in 2005 along with certificates in Transnational Law from Duke University and the University of London.