A Conversation with the Oversight Board:
Building a Safer Future Through Independent Oversight, Accountability, and Trust
Join Samantha Stetson, Meta’s Vice President of Client Council and Industry Trade Relations and Paolo Carozza, member of the Oversight Board and Professor, University of Notre Dame for a discussion on the importance of independent oversight, its role in creating accountability and trust, and how it can enable safety for people and brands.
Speakers
Samantha Stetson
VP Client Council and Industry Trade Relations
Meta
Samantha Stetson is a seasoned leader with over 25 years of marketing and sales experience in technology and healthcare IT. Samantha’s career reflects a proven track record of building and leading programs that extract a huge amount of impact from small teams. She is seen as a visionary who can make things happen. She has a deep passion for striving for excellence and pushing the boundaries of what is possible. She has served in a global capacity, which has allowed her to develop a deep empathy for the world we live in and the challenges outside of the United States. Samantha is currently the VP of the Client Council and Industry Trade Relations Team at Meta. The team’s mission is to foster a “customer first, customer best” culture throughout Meta. During her 9 years at Meta, Samantha has been responsible for building Meta’s Client Council franchise. The Councils are made up of top marketing and agency executives from Meta’s key clients and agency partners such as P&G, Unilever, Netflix, Pepsi, Coke, Walmart, etc., and the six major agency holding companies. She grew the franchise from one global council in 2011 to 14 global and regional Councils by end of 2020. Through these councils, she learned how to build deep cross functional relationships and manage complex issues to drive internal and external alignment. The Councils are seen as an indispensable part of Meta’s commitment to listening to their Customers and building deep relationships grounded in trust. The feedback gleaned during these meetings has helped influence some of Meta’s most important go-to-market strategies Samantha and her team are also responsible for leading relationships with the industry trade associations to partner on some of the most complex challenges facing the future of the digital ecosystem from brand safety to cross media measurement to data privacy.Samantha lives in Newtown Square, PA with her husband David and two children, Hadley (13) and Hunter (15). In her spare time, she enjoys Bikram Yoga and skiing. She grew up as a competitive figure skater and competed in the US National Championships.
Paolo Carozza
Professor
University of Notre Dame and Member of the Oversight Board
Paolo Carozza is Professor of Law and Concurrent Professor of Political Science at the University of Notre Dame, where he also served for 10 years as the Director of the Kellogg Institute for International Studies and founded and directs the Notre Dame Constitutionalism and Rule of Law Lab. His scholarly books and articles in the areas of comparative constitutional law and human rights law have been published widely in four languages. He is currently the United States member of the European Commission for Democracy through Law (the Venice Commission). Formerly he served as President of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights and as a member of the US State Department’s independent, nonpartisan, advisory Commission on Unalienable Rights. He is an academician of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences, and has lectured and taught as a visiting professor in various universities in Europe, North America, and Latin America, including twice as a Senior Fulbright Scholar and as the John Harvey Gregory Lecturer on World Organization at Harvard Law School.