Dr. habil Attila András Péterfalvi is the President of the Hungarian National Authority for Data Protection and Freedom of Information (2012- ). He started his carreer in data protection in 1988.

Honorary Professor at Károli Gáspár University of the Reformed Church, at Pázmány Péter Catholic University and also at Eötvös Lóránd University, Faculty of Law and Political Sciences in Hungary. Doctor honoris causa at the Ukrainian National Academy of Sciences Kiev Law School.

Got his PhD in 2014 at the National University of Public Service and received his habilitation degree at Pázmány Péter Catholic University in 2022.

Zdravko Vukić is the Director of the Croatian Personal Data Protection Agency. He graduated from the Faculty of Law, University of Osijek, and holds a Master’s degree in Public Administration and in Economics from Libertas International University. After having gained experience as  chief human resources officer and data protection officer, Mr Vukić served as an Assistant Minister at the Ministry of Construction and Physical Planning. In 2020 he was appointed director of the Croatian Personal Data Protection Agency. He is a guest lecturer on personal data protection at several faculties in Croatia and a member of the National Cybersecurity Council.

Dr. Tamás Sulyok was elected Judge of the Constitutional Court by the Hungarian Parliament in September 2014. Since 1 April 2015 he has been vice-president of the Constitutional Court. From 22 April 2016 he has been practicing the President's powers. On 22 November 2016, he was elected by the Parliament as the President of the Constitutional Court for the term of his mandate.

He graduated from the Faculty of Law of the University of Szeged in 1980.

Between 1982 and 1991 he was legal councilor, since 1991 until being elected as Member of the  Constitutional Court he has been attorney at law. Between 2000 and 2014 he has been honorary consul for Austria. Since September 2005 he has been visiting lecturer teaching constitutional law at the Faculty of Law of the University of Szeged. He was awarded PhD degree in 2013, his field of research is the constitutional frames of advocacy.

Dr Jelinek has held the position of Chair of the European Data Protection Board since May 2018, and Head of the Austrian Data Protection Authority since 2014.

Dr Jelinek previously was head of the Vienna Foreign Police, followed by a position as Head in the Regional Police Department. Before that, she worked in the Ministry of the Interior as head of department in the legal and legislative department, before being appointed head of a police commissioner's office.

Jelinek started out her career as a consultant for the Austrian Science Fund, and a trainee legal officer at the Austrian Rectors' Conference.

European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) since December 6th. 2019

Adjunct professor in the Faculty of Law and Administration of the University of Gdańsk. He was among others adviser in the field of e-government and information society for the Minister of Interior and Administration, the Director of the Informatisation Department at the Ministry of Interior and Administration. He also represented Poland in committee on Interoperability Solutions for European Public Administrations (the ISA Committee) assisting the European Commission.

The Inspector General for the Protection of Personal Data (Polish Data Protection Commissioner) 2010-2014 and the Vice Chair of the Working Party Art. 29 in 2014. In December 2014, he was appointed Assistant European Data Protection Supervisor. After the death of the Supervisor - Giovanni Buttarelli in August 2019 - he replaced Mr. Buttarelli as acting EDPS.

His areas of scientific activity include first of all Polish and European IT law, processing and security of information, legal information retrieval systems, informatisation of public administration, and application of new IT tools (semantic web, legal ontologies, cloud, blockchain) in legal information processing.

Head of the Data Protection Unit of the Council of Europe, and Secretary of the Committee of the Convention for the Protection of Individuals with regard to Automatic Processing of Personal Data (‘Convention 108’). She is a lawyer by academic background, specializing in public international law and international relations.

Dr. Mark Griffiths is a Chartered Psychologist and Distinguished Professor of Behavioural Addiction at the Nottingham Trent University, and Director of the International Gaming Research Unit. He is internationally known for his work into behavioral addictions. He has published over 1400 peer-reviewed research papers, six books, and over 190 book chapters. He has won 24 national and international awards for his research.

Márta Fülöp is scientific advisor in the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience and Psychology, Research Centre of Natural Sciences and professor of social psychology of the Károli Gáspár University of the Reformed Church. She is secretary general of the International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology and president if the Children's Identity and Citizenship: European Association.

Alessandro Mantelero is Associate Professor of Private Law and Law & Technology at Polytechnic University of Turin and EU Jean Monnet Chair in Mediterranean Digital Societies & Law. He has advised several EU and international bodies on data regulation, AI, and human rights. His latest book is Beyond Data. Human Rights, Ethical and Social Impact Assessment in AI (Springer-Asser, 2022, open access).

Dr. David Reichel is a project manager at the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA). He is responsible for managing FRA's research on artificial intelligence and on online content moderation, resulting in several reports, such as FRA’s report on artificial intelligence and fundamental rights ‘Getting the future right’. Prior to joining FRA in 2014, he worked for several years at the International Centre for Migration Policy Development (ICMPD). In addition, he has been teaching several university courses on human rights, migration and research methodology. He has published numerous articles, working papers and book chapters on issues related to human rights, migration and citizenship.

Tobias Judin is Head of International Affairs the Norwegian Data Protection Authority. He represents Norway in the European Data Protection Board, and he is a Co-Chair of the Global Privacy Assembly’s International Enforcement Working Group. Tobias is a lawyer, technologist and sinologist by education.

Dr. Brendan Van Alsenoy is Deputy Head of Unit "Policy & Consultation" at the European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS). He previously worked as a Legal Advisor and Acting Head of Unit at the Belgian Data Protection Authority. Prior to that, he worked as a legal researcher at the KU Leuven Centre for IT & IP Law, with a focus on data protection and privacy, intermediary liability and trust services.

András Tóth PhD (1979) has been the vice-president of the Hungarian Competition Authority (GVH) and Chairman of the Competition Council since 2010. He previously worked at White & Case LLP offices in Brussels and Budapest. Dr. Tóth is an associate professor and deputy-head of the ICT Law Department at Károli University in Budapest where he teaches competition law, public procedural law and EU digital law. He is a member of the editorial board of the European Competition and Regulatory Law Review (CoRe) published by Lexxion in Berlin.

Prof. Dr. Dr. Lela Janashvili is the President of the Personal Data Protection Service of Georgia.

She is a Professor of Legal Theories at the Faculty of Law of Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University (TSU) and a Visiting Professor at Barcelona Autonomous University. She holds a doctoral degree from the Faculty of Law of TSU, as well as, a doctoral degree in Human Security and Global Public Law, and carries an Extraordinary Doctoral Degree for an outstanding doctoral career from the Autonomous University of Barcelona. Since 2021, she has been a member of the Department of Human Security, named after Prof. Manuel Ballbé of the Autonomous University Barcelona. Since 2011, she has been a researcher of the research group of the Institute of Social and Political Sciences of the Autonomous University of Barcelona - “Freedom, Democracy, and Transformation of States”. Since 2015, she has been coordinating the Inter-University network for the Study of the Constitutional Transformation of the States.

Prof. Dr. Dr. Lela Janashvili is an Editor-in-Chief of bilingual, scientific, periodic publication of the Personal Data Protection Service of Georgia — “Journal of the Personal Data Protection Law”. And, she has authored several scientific articles and research papers.

Lawyer, former administrative law judge and data protection expert. Legal counsel and Head of the Legal Service Unit of the Hungarian National Authority for Data Protection and Freedom of Information. Guest lecturer at several universities, regularly publishes in the field of privacy, EU law, public procurement and administrative procedural law as well as judicial review.

Prof Dr Hielke Hijmans is President of the Litigation Chamber and Member Executive Board of the Belgian Data Protection Authority. On part time basis he is professor at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB, Institute European Studies), member of the Meijers Committee (ngo on EU fundamental rights) and lecturer at Luxembourg University.  

Lawyer and data protection expert, Vice president of the Hungarian National Authority for Data Protection and Freedom of Information. Guest lecturer at several universities, regularly publishes in the field of privacy and technology.

Iva Katić holds an LLM degree in Law from the Zagreb University (Croatia) and a bar exam.

She has been working for the Croatian Personal Data Protection Agency (HR SA) since 2018, covering legal aspects of data protection in various subject matters and represents HR SA at several international working groups (e.g. GPA, EK GDPR/LED group, various EDPB expert subgroups) and at EDPB Plenary meeting.

Antonio Caselli is Head of Unit at the Italian data protection authority, currently in charge of monitoring the new EU legal framework and international developments.

Antonio has long-standing experience in data protection matters, having been with the Italian DPA since 1997. Previously he worked at the Italian Ministry of Justice and at the Italian National Research Council.

Anna Hänninen is a lawyer and a data protection enthusiast. In her position as Coordinator of EU-matters at the Finnish data protection authority, she is deeply involved with the work of the European Data Protection Board and handling of One-Stop-Shop cases.

Senior international legal advisor in the EU and international department at the Swedish Authority for Privacy Protection (IMY). She is involved in the work of various subgroups and taskforces of the European Data Protection Board (EDPB).

He is an experienced lawyer with a focus on data protection and data security. Guest lecturer of 4 Hungarian universities (Pécs, ELTE, Miskolc, NKE) and of the University of Applied Sciences Ludwigsburg. Head of the Department for Data Protection Compliance and Public Relations of the Hungarian supervisory authority since 2019.

Cosimo Monda is Director of the Maastricht European Centre on Privacy and Cybersecurity.

At ECPC his work has a strong European and international outlook in the field of privacy and cybersecurity, steering an interdisciplinary group of researchers, academics and professionals active in areas of fundamental rights, data privacy, transparency and confidentiality, IT, data security, and more. He has a longstanding experience in EU affairs, particularly in business development, design executive education, certification courses and online learning modules for professionals and management of service contracts.

Anna Pouliou is an internationally recognised privacy and data protection expert and currently the Chief Privacy Officer of Mars Inc. Prior to Mars she was a partner at Deloitte while she held several senior in-house roles at GE, Chanel, FDC/Fiserv, Euroclear Bank, Bank of New York Mellon and NBG. Anna served as a member of the GDPR Multi-Stakeholder Expert Group advising the European Commission on GDPR implementation on behalf of Business Europe for 5 years. She still assists them with the EU Academy courses for DPAs around the world. Anna is a regular speaker and university lecturer on data protection. 

Chair of the Norwegian Association of Data Protection Officers. DPO at the Church of Norway, the country’s largest member organisation. Political scientist, University of Copenhagen. Author and lecturer on European regulation and privacy. 

Senior Legal Counsel and Data Protection Officer at Ericsson Nikola Tesla Inc. Nikolina holds CIPP/E, CIPM, CIPT, and FIP certificates issued by the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP). She is also a frequent speaker on different data protection events.

Alexander Beck is a Senior Data Protection Officer, with more than 20 years experience with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR); half of which has been focused on data protection. He was lead drafter of UNHCR’s first Data Protection Policy (2015) and first UNHCR DPO 2017 to 2020. 

Dr Urszula Góral, Doctor of Political Science, graduate of the Faculty of Law and Administration at the University of Warsaw.

Her professional career is related to public administration, having worked as a civil servant since 2001.

From 2007 to 2022, she worked as Director of the Department of International Cooperation and Education at the Office for Personal Data Protection.

She currently performs the tasks of Data Protection Officer in the Polish Parliament, the Sejm. She also works as an assistant professor at the Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski University in Warsaw.

As part of her international experience, she was a representative of the President of the Office for Personal Data Protection in the works of the European Data Protection Board and  T-PD Consultative Committee. She has experience in implemention and evaluation of personal data protection regulations, inter alia in Eastern Partnership countries; she was an expert of various international projects sponsored by the European Commission (TAIEX) and the Council of Europe. She is an author of numerous publications on privacy and personal data protection.

Paul Breitbarth is data protection lead at Catawiki, a Netherlands-based online marketplace for special objects. He teaches data protection law at Maastricht University, co-hosts the Serious Privacy podcast and has recently been appointed to the Jersey Data Protection Authority. Before moving to the private sector, Paul worked for the Dutch Data Protection Authority.