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I am a Professor on Personal Data Protection Law at the Faculty of Law & Criminology of the Free University of Brussels (VUB, Vrije Universiteit Brussel), focusing also on Cybersecurity, Intellectual Property, and the broader topic of technology regulation. I am the director of VUB’s Cyber and Data Security Lab (CDSL), and also a core member of VUB’s Research Group on Law Science Technology & Society (LSTS) and of the Brussels Privacy Hub. In addition, through  MPlegal, a niche technology law firm, I practice business law with a particular emphasis on startups and mid-size companies on all of the above fields of law.

Since the early 2000s I have participated in the law-making committees for the release of all major EU, Council of Europe and Greek laws and regulations on personal data protection (the Council Framework Decision 2008/977/JHA, the EU PNR Directive, Convention 108+, the GDPR, the Police and Criminal Justice Data Protection Directive, Greek law n.4624/2019).

Since 2018, when the GDPR became applicable, I have participated either as a partner through VUB’s CDSL or as an external expert in EU-funded research projects of a total worth of more than 100m Euros.

For the period 2016-2021 I have been a member (alternate) of the Hellenic Data Protection Authority; For the period 2021-2024 the Data Protection Officer (DPO) of Greece’s centre-right (governing) political party Nea Demokratia – ND; Before these, I have been a member of the Board of Directors of the Hellenic Copyright Organisation (for two terms).