Gert Vermeulen is Senior Full Professor of (International and European) Criminal Law and Data Protection Law, Director of the Institute for International Research on Criminal Policy (IRCP) and Director of the Knowledge and Research Platform on Privacy, Information Exchange, Law Enforcement and Surveillance (PIXLES) at Ghent University, Belgium. He is also Commissioner at the Belgian Data Protection Authority.
Willem Debeuckelaere is President of the Belgian Data Protection Authority and Deputy Chair of the European Data Protection Board (and of its predecessor, the Article 29 Working Party, since 2015). He is also Counsellor at the Court of Appeal of Ghent, Belgium and Guest Professorat Ghent University, Belgium. Joe Cannatati is Head of the Department of Information Policy & Governance at the University of Malta.
He is also Full Professor, holding the Chair of European Information Policy & Technology Law at the University of Groningen, The Netherlands and an Adjunct Professoral at the Security Research Institute & School of Computer and Security Science, Edith Cowan University Australia. He is the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Privacy. Sophie Kwasny is Head of the Data Protection Unit of the Council of Europe.
Jean-Philippe Walter is the Council of Europe Data Protection Commissioner. Giovanni Buttarelli is the European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) and a Court of Cassation Judge in Italy. Bruno Gencarelli is Head of the International Data Flows and Protection Unit at the European Commission (DG Justice and Consumers). Mario Oetheimer is Deputy Head of Unit of the Research & Data Unit at the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA).
Wojciech Wiewiorowski is the Assistant European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) and Adjunct in the Law Faculty of the University of Gdansk, Poland.