About Abdullah Elbi

Abdullah Elbi is a legal researcher at the KU-Leuven Center for IT and IP Law (CiTiP), where he is primarily involved in the Horizon 2020 project iMars and the Research Council of Norway-funded SALT Project. He is a qualified lawyer in Turkey and experienced in privacy and data protection law with a particular interest in biometrics and the effects of new technologies on vulnerable groups. As a Jean Monnet scholar, Abdullah completed his master's degree at Leiden University, specialising in Law and Digital Technologies. Before joining CiTiP, Abdullah was actively involved in The Netherlands Red Cross, 510 initiative’s works, and he contributed to several projects to ensure the responsible use of data and digital technologies in the humanitarian sector while respecting fundamental human rights and data protection standards.