Positions

Affiliated Professor of Data Protection Law, University of Copenhagen, 2022-Present

Senior Privacy Counsel, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, Brussels, 2012-Present

Visiting Fellow, Maastricht European Centre on Privacy and Cybersecurity, Maastricht University, 2018-Present

Founder and Co-Director, Brussels Privacy Research Hub, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Brussels, October 2014-June 2023

Professor of Law, Interdisciplinary Research Group on Law Science Technology & Society (LSTS), Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Brussels, July 2015-June 2023

Honorary Affiliated Professor, Department of Law, University of Copenhagen, 2013-2018

Associated assistant professor, University of Copenhagen, 2010-2013

Affiliated Lecturer, Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge, 2012-2017

Partner, Hunton & Williams, Brussels, 2002-2012

Of Counsel, Morrison & Foerster, Brussels, 1998-2002

Associate, Gleiss Lutz, Frankfurt, 1993-1998

Education

Tilburg Law School, Tilburg, The Netherlands, PhD in data protection law, 2013

New York University School of Law, LL.M. in International Legal Studies, 1991

Study at Law Faculty of Cologne University, Germany, 1985

J.D., Notre Dame Law School, Notre Dame, Indiana USA, 1984

B.A. cum laude, Lawrence University, Appleton, Wisconsin USA, 1980

Other positions, activities and honors

Visiting Fellow, Department of Law, London School of Economics and Political Science, March 2014

Visiting Fellow, Centre for European Legal Studies and Wolfson College, University of Cambridge, April 2012-July 2012

Visiting Researcher, Tilburg Institute for Law, Technology, and Society of Tilburg University (The Netherlands), 2010-2013

Visiting Fellow, Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford, UK,    June-July 2009

External lecturer, Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration (Wirtschaftsuniversität), Vienna, Austria, 2004-May 2011

Consultant to the OECD on data protection legal issues of transborder data flows, 2010-2011

Editor-in-chief, International Data Privacy Law (Oxford University Press), 2010-Present

Named by The Burton Foundation as “One of the Best Law Firm Writers of 2010”

Member, Steering Committee, 32^nd International Conference of Data Protection and Privacy Commissioners, Jerusalem, 27-29 October 2010

Visiting fellow at the Oxford Internet Institute, Oxford University, 2009

Member of the academic advisory board of the “Deutsche Gesellschaft für Datenschutz und Datensicherheit” (German Society for Data Protection and Data Security), Bonn, 2006-Present

Chairman, European Privacy Officers Forum (EPOF), 2002-2012

Chairman, Data Protection Task Force of the International Chamberof commerce (ICC), Paris, 1999-2012

Member of the ICC delegation to the Council of Europe Consultative Committee of the Convention for the Protection of Individuals with Regard to Automatic Processing of Personal Data, 1999-2010

Member of the ICC delegation to the Electronic Commerce Working Group of the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL), 1998-2005

Languages

English and German (native), Russian (intermediate), Italian (basic), French (basic)

Bar admissions

B-list, Brussels Bar

New York Bar (1991)