Agne Makauskaite is a regulatory lawyer and a public policy expert, having worked in communications regulatory policy field in various regions globally for more than 16 years. Currently she is the APAC Public Policy Lead for Regulated Industries for Amazon Web Services. She focuses on cloud computing policy, including data sovereignty, cybersecurity, data privacy and related policy issues for telecommunications, financial services, healthcare and other regulated industries. Before joining AWS in 2019, Agne worked as the APAC Senior Regulatory Manager for Vodafone Business. Prior to that she was a Director of Regulatory Legal Affairs for the largest telecoms carrier in the UAE, Middle East: Etisalat. She has LLM in Competition Law from King’s College London and Master’s in Law degree from Vilnius University in Lithuania. She started her career working for the Telecommunications Regulatory Authority in Lithuania, after which she continued practicing telecoms regulatory law and policy in Europe, Middle East and APAC regions.