Bill Marden became NYPL’s first Director of Data Privacy and Compliance in November 2015 after almost 20 years of policy, regulatory, and compliance experience at some of the world’s leading financial institutions including Citigroup, JPMorgan Chase, and UBS. Previous to his time in the financial world, Bill was a librarian in both the public and private sectors, including six years as books and manuscripts curator for the Frederick R. Koch Foundation, now housed at Yale's Beinecke Library. He also interned at the Pierpont Morgan Library while studying for his MLS, which he received from Columbia University in 1988.
Bill is chairman of the ALA's Office of Intellectual Freedom (OIF) Privacy Subcommittee and a contributor to "Protecting Patron Privacy: A LITA Guide" (Rowman & Littlefield, May 2017)
