Vagelis Papakonstantinou is a Professor of Personal Data Protection Law at the Faculty of Law & Criminology of the of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), focusing also on Cybersecurity, Intellectual Property, and the broader topic of technology regulation. He is the Scientific Coordinator of VUB’s Cyber and Data Security Lab (CDSL), and is also a member of VUB’s Research Group on Law Science Technology & Society (LSTS) and the Brussels Privacy Hub. From 2016 until 2021 he has been a member (alternate) of the Hellenic Data Protection Authority; before that, he has served for two terms as a member of the Board of Directors of the Hellenic Copyright Organisation.