Christopher Wolf (born Washington, DC 1954) is an American attorney known for his career in Internet and privacy law. He was one of the first lawyers to practice Internet law and Privacy law. He is a retired partner in the international law firm of Hogan Lovells US LLP. He is the founding editor and lead author of the first Practising Law Institute (PLI) legal treatise on privacy and information security law. He is the founder and co-chair of a think tank devoted to emerging privacy issues, the Future of Privacy Forum. FPF serves as a catalyst for privacy leadership and scholarship, advancing principled data practices in support of emerging technologies. He also has chaired an international consortium of non-governmental organizations fighting online hate speech, the International Network Against Cyber-hate (INACH). Wolf graduated from Bowdoin College in 1976, and magna cum laude Order of the Coif from Washington & Lee University School of Law in 1980. He clerked with the Hon. Aubrey E. Robinson Jr., United States District Court, District of Columbia, 1980–1982. In 2013, Wolf co-authored (with Abraham Foxman) a book entitled Viral Hate: Containing its Spread on the Internet (Macmillan Palgrave),reflecting his longstanding and ongoing work monitoring and addressing online hate. Wolf is known for his decades-long commitment through Board Service to various non-profits, focusing on social services, civil rights and the arts.