Diana Santos

Diana Santos is a legal leader with more than 15 years of experience at the intersection of law, technology, and business strategy.

She currently serves as Legal Transformation Executive at IBM, where she leads strategic initiatives to modernize legal operations, advance responsible AI adoption, and improve how legal teams deliver value at scale. Her work spans legal technology, governance, eDiscovery transformation, vendor management, and organizational change.

Previously, Ms. Santos held senior legal roles at IBM, including Senior Counsel and Global Generative AI Legal Lead for IBM Consulting, where she helped build governance and compliance frameworks for AI deployments across a global business. Before IBM, she served as Assistant General Counsel at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and Associate Counsel at the New York Genome Center, advising on technology, data, and intellectual property matters. Ms. Santos began her career at Ropes & Gray LLP and Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP, advising major companies in complex litigation and commercial transactions. She has also taught as an Adjunct Professor at Fordham University School of Law.

She holds a J.D. from Fordham, an LL.M. in European Law from Université Panthéon-Assas, a Master of Biotechnology from the University of Pennsylvania, and a Bachelor of Engineering from The Cooper Union. She currently serves on the Hispanic National Bar Association’s Special Committee on AI and has received several awards for her work and contributions to the legal profession.

Education

Harvard Law School Executive Education, Program on Negotiation Certificate

Fordham University School of Law, J.D.

Université Panthéon–Assas, Collège Européen de Paris, Master of Laws in European Law

University of Pennsylvania, M.B., Bioengineering

The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, Bachelor of Engineering