Dutch 
Staff
Axel M. Arnbak
PhD-candidate
 
Instituut voor
Informatierecht (IViR)

Visiting address
Korte Spinhuissteeg 3
1012 CG Amsterdam

Postal address
Kloveniersburgwal 48
1012 CX Amsterdam
 
room B2.19

tel: +31 20 525 33 04

fax: +31 20 - 525 30 33


PGP Key 31FBA62B
 


Curriculum Vitae
Axel Arnbak is a Ph.D. candidate at the Institute for Information Law. His research will focus on the regulatory aspects of cybersecurity.

Obtaining his LL.M. degree from IViR in 2009, he was awarded the internet law oriented Internet Thesis Award 2009 and general University of Amsterdam Thesis Award 2010 for his Master's thesis on the fundamental rights aspects of the EU Data Retention Directive and its Dutch implementation.

Upon graduation, Axel joined Bits of Freedom,the Dutch digital rights organization that had resumed its activities just before.  Until mid August 2011, Axel was responsible for privacy advocacy and worked on both a national and European level.

Axel received his LL.B. degree from Leiden University (2007), interned at law firm Brinkhof (2008), studied Competitive Strategy and Game Theory at the London School of Economics (2009) and chaired the VeerStichting foundation (2005-2006). Along with his full-time affiliation at IViR, he is a member of the supervisory board at the Stichting Admiraal van Kinsbergenfonds (not compensated).


Publications
What the European Commission owes 500 million Europeans, speech delivered on 3 December 2010 at the conference "Taking on the Data Retention Directive", organised by the European Commission.

Part of this speech is also published in Privacy & Informatie, nr. 6, 2010, p. 305.

13.12.2011


Updated 08.05.2012