Rehana Harasgama is a leading expert in domestic and international data, data protection and cybersecurity law. She also has a deep understanding of and advises clients on information, media and technology law as well as other regulatory topics such the use of artificial intelligence, platform regulation, advertising, FinTech and life sciences.

Rehana Harasgama advises clients on complex data, data protection and cybersecurity questions, such as major cross-border disclosure requests, the adoption and implementation of privacy-by-design in new technologies and business models, data protection due diligences, the monetization of data, the implementation of data breach response plans, the outsourcing of data (processing activities) and the handling of employee personal data. She regularly holds internal and external training sessions and seminars in data protection law as well as other current developments in her field of expertise.

Rehana Harasgama is a lecturer at the University of St. Gallen (HSG) where she teaches data protection law. She also regularly publishes academic articles, newsletters and briefings and is an author in the "Basler Kommentar zum Datenschutzgesetz" a leading commentary on the revised Swiss Federal Act on Data Protection as well as the "Online Kommentar" of the revised law. Rehana is on the advisory board of the Swiss IT Women Lawyers Association (Schweizer IT-Juristinnen Verein). She is also a board member of the Swiss Association for AI Law.

During her doctorate (Ph.D. in Law) at the University of St. Gallen she contributed to an international and interdisciplinary research project "Remembering and Forgetting in the Digital Age" in collaboration with – among others – the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law school where she also spent one summer as a visiting researcher to focus on US privacy law. The research project was funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation.

Rehana was recognized as a Rising Star by Legal 500 EMEA in the area of data privacy and data protection in 2023 and 2024. Leaders League also lists her as one of the excellent data protection lawyers in Switzerland.

• Bär & Karrer College, University of St. Gallen: CAS in Law & Management (2021)
• Lecturer, Datenschutz im digitalen Markt, University of St. Gallen (as of 2021)
• Lecturer, CAS Datenschutz und Datensicherheit, Hochschule für Wirtschaft (HWZ) (2020)
• Associate at Bär & Karrer (since 2019)
• Admission to the Zurich Bar (2019)
• Tutor, Independent Studies Private Law (English), University of St. Gallen (2017-2019)
• University of St. Gallen: PhD in Law (2017)
• Trainee at a business law firm in Zurich (2016-2017)
• Consultant, General Counsel Office, Data Protection Officer at a leading auditing company in Zurich (2015-2016)
• Research stay at Harvard Law School, Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, USA (2014)
• Research Assistant at the Research Center for Information Law, University of St. Gallen (2013-2015)
• University of St. Gallen: M.A. HSG in Law (2013)
• York University, Osgoode Hall Law School, Canada: Exchange semester (2012)
• University of St. Gallen: B.A. HSG in Law (2010)

• Swiss Bar Association (SAV/FSA)
• Zurich Bar Association (ZAV)
• Swiss Lawyers' Society (SJV)
• International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP)
• Swiss Association of Women in IT Law (SAWIL)
• ITechLaw – International Technology Law Association