Lilian Mitrou
Professor
University of the Aegean, Greece
SHORT BIO
| Lilian Mitrou is Professor at the University of the Aegean-Greece (Department of Information and Communication Systems Engineering) teaching Data Protection and Information Law. L. Mitrou studied law in Athens and holds a PhD in Data Protection (Supervisor Spiros Simitis -University of Frankfurt-Germany). She is also Visiting Professor at the Athens University of Economics and Business (Postgraduate Studies Programs: Information Systems Security/ Data Science/ Business Analytics/ Digital Methods for Humanities) and at the University of Piraeus (Postgraduate Studies Programs in Law and ICT Technologies/ Digital Systems Security). She is President of the Institute for Privacy Law, Data Protection and Technology (IPL), established by the European Public Law Organization ( www.eplo.int) and Editor in Chief of “Technology and Communication Law Journal”. She was Advisor to the Greek Prime Minister Prof. K. Simitis (Information Society, Public Administration/ Institutions, Independent Administrative/Supervisory Authorities – 1996-2004). From 1999 to 2003 she was Member of the Hellenic Data Protection Authority and from 2016 to 2023 Member of the Greek National Council for Radio and Television (NCRTV). She was/is Member/Chair of many Committees working on law proposals in the fields of privacy and data protection, communications law, e-government, digital governance, artificial intelligence etc. She was Chair of the Greek Delegation in DAPIX (Working Group on Information Exchange and Data Protection) for the negotiations of GDPR and LawEnforcement Directive. During the Greek Presidency of the Council of EU (2014) she has served as Chair of DAPIX. Her professional experience includes senior consulting and researcher positions in a number of private and public institutions and projects on national and international level. L. Mitrou has published books, chapters in books and many journal and conference papers (in English, German and Greek) with focus on privacy, data protection law and legal and ethical issues of Artificial Intelligence. |
