Una A. Dean is Associate General Counsel in IBM’s Investigations and Regulatory Group. Formerly, she was a partner in Fried Frank’s Cybersecurity and White Collar Defense, Regulatory Enforcement & Investigations Practices and a former federal prosecutor in the Eastern District of New York.
During her time as an AUSA, Ms. Dean served as the first Cyber Specialist and as a Computer Hacking and Intellectual Property Coordinator (CHIP). She was also the recipient of the Director’s Award for Superior Performance and the Federal Drug Agents Foundation’s True American Hero award. In private practice, Ms. Dean was named to Crain’s New York Business’ 2019 list of Notable Women in Law and also profiled among in Global Investigations Review’s 2018 Women in Investigations. She was recently selected as a Rising Star by Thomson Reuters for its Transforming Women’s Leadership in the Law program.
Ms. Dean is also a lecturer and at UCLA’s Global Cyber Institute and a Program Mentor at NYU Law’s Executive Masters of Science in Cybersecurity Risk and Strategy. Ms. Dean serves as a board member of the Asian American Bar Association of New York, the Capital Appeals Project and the Promise of Justice Initiative.
Ms. Dean served as a law clerk for the Honorable William J. Martini in the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey from 2005-2006. She received her JD from University of Michigan Law School in 2004 where she served as a Contributing Editor of the Michigan Law Review, and her BA, magna cum laude, from Harvard University in 1998.