Prof. Dr. Christopher Kuner

Prof. Dr. Christopher Kuner has been active in EU and global data protection law since the early 1990s as a lawyer, author, and academic. He is currently Affiliate Professor at the University of Copenhagen and Senior Privacy Counsel in the Brussels office of Wilson Sonsini, as well as being a member of the European Commission's Multisectoral Stakeholder Group on the GDPR. He has been a professor of law at the VUB in Brussels and a visiting professor at the University of Cambridge, the European University Institute, Chuo University in Tokyo, and the Oxford Internet Institute, and has lectured at the Hague Academy of International Law, as well as being a partner at various international law firms. The author of numerous articles and books, Dr. Kuner is editor-in-chief of the journal International Data Privacy Law and one of the principal editors of the commentary on the GDPR published by Oxford University Press, as well as co-editor of the Handbook on Data Protection in Humanitarian Action published by the International Committee of the Red Cross. He was awarded a medal from the Consumer Affairs Agency of the government of Japan for his services to data protection law.