With over a decade of experience leading and transforming privacy programs across the Federal Government, Charles Cutshall is one of the most trusted privacy professionals working in Washington, D.C. today.  In August 2022, he began serving as the Chief Privacy Officer (CPO) and Director of Open Government for the U.S. Department of Commerce, where he has agency-wide responsibility and accountability for the Department’s privacy program, the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), the Federal Advisory Committee Act (FACA), principles of transparency and open government, and management of the Department’s directives management program.  

Previously, Charles served as the CPO for the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) where he was responsible for managing privacy risks to individuals and to the Commission associated with the processing of personally identifiable information and for providing policy and programmatic oversight of the CFTC's privacy program.  Prior to joining the CFTC, Charles served in the Executive Office of the President where he was responsible for overseeing Federal agencies' privacy programs, developing Federal privacy policy, and helping Federal agencies solve privacy problems.  His prior experience also includes developing enterprise-wide privacy policies and supporting privacy compliance programs at both the Department of the Treasury and the Department of Homeland Security.

In 2019, Charles was nominated by the Director of the Office of Management and Budget to serve on the Advisory Committee on Data for Evidence Building, a statutory advisory committee responsible for developing recommendations on how to promote the use of Federal data for evidence building.

Charles is a voting member of the Federal Privacy Council’s Executive Committee and Chairs the Council’s Privacy Risk Management working group.  Charles is also member of the Robert S. Brookings Society at the Brookings Institution.  He is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional and a Certified Information Privacy Professional.  In 2019, the International Association of Privacy Professional designated Charles as a Fellow of Information Privacy.  Charles holds a B.A. and M.P.A. from the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University.