Wojciech Wiewiorowski
European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) since December 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.
Monday | 29th Sep Plenary Agenda
Panel 3: International Data Flows in a Time of Fragmentation
- How is increasing global friction impacting data transfer laws?
- Global standards and the OECD declaration on governmental access to data held by the private sector
- What are the opportunities and constraints of standard contractual clauses (SCCs) for data transfers between countries and jurisdictions?
- Where do the legitimate sovereignty concerns lie
- What advantages do Cross-Border Privacy Rules (CBPR) brings to companies operating globally?
Speakers include:
Wojciech Wiewiórowski, European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS)
Claus Ulmer, Group Data Privacy Officer, Deutsche Telekom
Lorelien Hoet, Director European Government Affairs. Infrastructure & Connectivity, Microsoft
Moderator: John Kavanagh, Privacy and Security, Public Policy Europe, TikTok