Varun Aggarwal
Ot van Daalen
Assistant professor at the Institute for Information Law, University of Amsterdam, NL.
Ot is an assistant professor in the field of privacy and security. He is also the founder of a law firm specialised in privacy and security, Root Legal. He wrote a PhD on the human rights-compatibility of the regulation of offensive and defensive information security technologies, focusing on quantum computing and encryption. Previously, he worked at the Dutch Data Protection Authority and relaunched the Dutch digital rights movement Bits of Freedom.
Els De Busser
Associate Professor Information Law at Institute for Information Law, University of Amsterdam, NL.
Els is the Programme Director of the Master Information Law at UvA. She specializes in multidisciplinary education and research on a broad range of topics including digital justice, data protection and privacy, legal aspects of cyber security, AI and human rights and European criminal law. Els is UNESCO expert AI and the Rule of Law and a member of the Standing Committee of Experts on International Immigration, Refugee and Criminal Law (also known as the Meijers Committee).
Charlotte Ducuing
Joost Gerritsen
Kristina Irion
Associate Professor at the Institute for Information Law, University of Amsterdam, NL
Kristina Irion is Associate Professor at the Institute for Information Law (IViR) at the University of Amsterdam. She is the Director of the Annual IViR Summer Course on Privacy Law and Policy and the Coordinator as well as a Lecturer in the Research Master’s Information Law. Kristina is a member of the Scientific Committee of the annual Computer Privacy and Data Protection (CPDP) International Conferences and the International Advisory Board of the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC). A baseline of Kristina’s research is the interpretation and analysis of the transformational processes that reconfigure the legal properties of digital data in line with societal needs. Kristina’s current research agenda focuses on the governance of transnational digital technologies and global data value chains from the perspective of European law and international economic law.
Heleen Janssen
Senior researcher, Institute for Information Law, University of Amsterdam, NL.
Heleen holds a PhD in law (Maastricht University, 2003). Her research at IViR focuses on centralized and decentralized data governance infrastructures; she considers the potential of data management and computing infrastructures, and their legal, regulatory and policy implications. Her current projects revolve around data intermediaries (e.g., data trusts, data commons, personal information management systems).
Marjolein Lanzing
Sjoera Nas
Senior privacy consultant, Privacy Company, NL
Sjoera Nas is a senior privacy consultant. She has worked for the Dutch data protection authority for almost 12 years, as internet and telecom expert. She was responsible for many national and international investigations, involving for example Google, Facebook and Microsoft. She has been rapporteur or co-rapporteur of many opinions of the Article 29 Working Party related to internet and technology. In May 2018, she switched to the Dutch privacy consultancy Privacy Company. She acts as an external DPO for a number of private and public sector organisations, and has been commissioned to conduct several Data Protection Impact Assessments. Her extensive DPIA reports for the Dutch government on the data processing by Google (Google Workspace) and Microsoft (Windows, Office, Intune and DKE), are publicly available.
Laurens Naudts
Postdoctoral researcher at the AI, Media and Democracy Lab and Insitute for Information Law, University of Amsterdam, NL.
In his research, Laurens explores the political philosophy, ethics and regulation of artificial intelligence and automation. His doctoral research focused on the concepts of equality and non-discrimination and their interpretative function in identifying and articulating the conditions under which automated decision-making technologies give rise to (structural) injustice. He is eager to critically and socially engage with fellow researchers, civil society, regulators, media, and journalism partners to reflect on novel technologies’ transformative impact on media, democracy, and fundamental rights. In his current work, Laurens investigates the structural, social and relational dynamics that constitute a digitally mediated society, including positions of power and privilege and acts and structures of oppression and domination.
Jan Penfrat
Laura Poolman
Marijn Sax
Assistant professor, Institute for Information Law, University of Amsterdam, NL.
Marijn has a background in Political Science (BSc.), Philosophy (BA., MA., both cum laude), and Law (PhD, cum laude). His research is centered around the question of how to understand and normatively evaluate attempts to influence behavior in and through digital choice environments. In his work he tries to use ethical theory to inform legal theorizing and interpretation.
Marten Steketee