Members

Alex Türk, CNIL
Chairman of the Art. 29 Working Party

• Alex Türk was elected as President of the Commission nationale de l’informatique et des libertés (CNIL) on February 3, 2004. He was initially appointed as member of the CNIL in 1992. He was the Vice President of CNIL from 2002 to 2004.
• In his capacity as CNIL member, Alex Türk was elected Chairman of the Schengen Joint Supervisory Authority (1995-1997), Chairman of the Europol JSA (2000-2002) and of the Supervisory Authority of Eurodac (2003).
• Alex Türk was elected as a member of the French Senate on September 24, 1992. He was re-elected in September 2001. He belongs to the Law Commission and to the EU Delegation of the Senate. He was elected as a Counselor of the Lille-centre County Council in 2001.
• Alex Türk, PhD., teaches public law at Lille II University. He is a lecturer at the Institute of Lille Political Science Institute and Catholic Universities.

Jacob KOHNSTAMM,
Vice-Chairman of the Art. 29 Working Party Data Protection

Before his appointment to Chairman of the Dutch Data Protection Authority Jacob Kohnstamm had been a member of the Senate of the States General for D66 since 1999. In addition, he was chairman of a large number of organisations and committees including the Regieraad ICT Politie [Board for Information and Communications Technology for the Police]

He was State Secretary for Internal Affairs between 1994 and 1998 and in particular was responsible for developing the Large Cities Policy.

After completing his studies in law at the University of Amsterdam, J. Kohnstamm worked as a lawyer between 1977 and 1981 and between 1982 and 1986.

In 1981 he was elected a member of the House of Representatives of the States General. He was a spokesman for his political party in the areas of defence, the police and justice. From 1982 to 1986 he held the position of party chairman.

Between 1986 and 1994 Kohnstamm was again a member of the House of Representatives. In the first session period he was spokesman for internal affairs, the police and the Middle East. In this period he was also Chairman of the standing parliamentary committee National Ombudsman. In the parliamentary period that followed, namely between 1989 and 1994, he was spokesman in the policy areas of public health, the police and the Middle East and also chairman of the standing parliamentary committee for the police.

Additional functions

• Chairman of the Board of the Garantie Instituut voor de Woningbouw [Guarantee Institute for Housing] (since 2004)
• Chairman of the Board of Commissioners of the Woningbouwcorporatie Het Oosten [Het Oosten Housing Corporation] (since 2000)
• Chairman of the Stichting Stimuleringsfonds Openbare Gezondheidszorg [Foundation and Fund for the Promotion of Public Healthcare] (since 2000)
• Chairman of the Humanistische Omroep [Humanist Broadcasting Corporation] (since 1999) and of the organisation according to Article 39 of the media law, and in this capacity, a member of the Raad van Toezicht van de Publieke Omroep [Supervisory Board of the Public Broadcasting Corporations] (since 2000)
• Chairman of the Nederlandse Vereniging voor Vrijwillig Levenseinde (NVVE) [Dutch Association for Voluntary Euthanasia] (since 2000) and chairman of the Board of the World Federation for the Right to Die Societies (since 2004)

EDUCATION:

• Sofia University St. Climent Ohridski, 1992, Degree in Law
• Additional educational qualifications: Specialisation in legal clinics, Washington and New York - 2002

MEMBERSHIP OF PROFESSIONAL BODIES:

Bulgarian representative in the following institutions: Working Party on the Protection of Individuals with regard to the Processing of Personal Data established by the European Directive 95/46/EC (Article 29 Working Party)

PRESENT POSITION:

Member of Commission for Personal Data Protection
Years within the organisation: 4 years

Specific Countries experience:Working meetings, including presentations in Conferences and Seminars and maximum level contacts.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

• 2002 - currently Member of the Commission for Personal Data Protection, Sofia
• 1997 – 2001 Expert & Advisor at the National Assembly of the Republic of Bulgaria, Sofia Participation in working groups for draft law
• 1995 – 1997 Expert, Bulgarian Centre for Human rights, Sofia
• 1995 – currently Vice – Dean of Law Faculty, University of Rousse, Lecturer – Family and Succession Law, Civil Law, Obligatory Law, Notary Law
• 1995 – 1996 Lecturer, University of Veliko Tarnovo
• 1993 – 1995 Lecturer, University of Economy, Varna, Family and Succession Law
• 1993 - currently University of World and Wide Economy, Sofia Lecturer – Family and Succession Law , Civil Law, Notary Law
• 1992 - 1993 Rakovski Defence and Staff Academy, Sofia Lecturer, Law
• 1992 - currently University of Sofia, Assistant ; Professor Lecturer – Family and Succession Law, Civil Law

OTHER RELEVANT INFORMATION

• As a constituter, in common with American Bar Association (ABA), establish Legal Clinic Foundation in 2002
• First chairman of Legal Clinic Foundation
• Leader of project “ Legal clinic for Family and Succession Law”, 1999 – 2006, financed from United States Agency for International Development USAID
• Leader of project “ Legal clinic for Administrative law” 2001 – 2005, financed from Open Society Institute
• Honourable member of Notary Chamber of the Republic of Bulgaria

Mr. Igor NEMEC, President of the Office for Personal Data Protection

Professional Record

• 2002 – 2005: Prague City Assembly, Member of Prague City Council; Prague City Councillor for Culture, Church and Religious Societies and Tourism (Civic Democratic Party)
• 2002: Mayor of the City of Prague (Civic Democratic Party)
• 1998 – 2002: Prague City Assembly, Member of Prague City Council; Prague City Councillor for Culture, Sport and Physical Training, Church and Religious Societies, Fairs, Congress Tourism and Tourism (Civic Democratic Party)
• 1997 – 1998: Parliament of the Czech Republic, Deputy – member of Committee for Foreign Affairs (Civic Democratic Party)
• 1996 – 1997: Office for State Information System, Prague, Chairman
• 1993 – 1996: Office of the Government of the Czech Republic, Prague; Minister – Head of Office of the Government (Civic Democratic Party); Chairman of Research and Development Council: preparation of a conception of the governmental support of science and research; Executive Deputy Chairman of Government Board for People with Disabilities; Chairman of Inter-ministerial Anti-Drug Commission; Chairman of Council for Nationalities
• 1991 – 1993: Ministry of State Control, Prague; Minister of State Control (Civic Democratic Party); Since 1991, minister in the Czech government of the prime minister Petr Pithart (for Civic Democratic Party)
• 1992 – 1993: Federal Assembly of the Czechoslovak Federative Republic, Prague, Deputy (Civic Democratic Party)
• 1990 – 1992: Federal Assembly of the Czechoslovak Federative Republic, Prague; Deputy, elected for Civic Forum in the Chamber of Nations of the Federal Assembly of the Czechoslovak Socialistic Republic; Secretary of Budget Committee
• 1987 – 1990: META Prague, mathematician – analyst
• 1984 – 1987: Faculty of General Medicine of the Charles University, Prague, mathematician – analyst, Chair of Nuclear Medicine

Education

• 1978 – 1983: Charles University, Prague, Graduated from Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, specialization in numeric mathematics, Degree “RNDr.”

Ms Janni CHRISTOFFERSEN, Director, of the Danish Data Protection Agency (Datatilsynet).

• Janni Christoffersen (born 1962) graduated from the University of Copenhagen, Faculty of Law in 1987. She then worked as Head of Section at the Family LawDirectorate from 1987 to 1990 and as Head of Section in several divisions in the Danish Ministry of Justice from 1990-1998.
• In 1998 Janni Christoffersen was appointed Head of Department of the Personnel Division of the Danish Ministry of Justice, a position she held until appointed Director of the Danish Data Protection Agency (Datatilsynet) in 2002.
• Janni Christoffersen has been a member of the Danish Refugee Board from 1991 to 1993, Alternate in the Employment Appeals Board from 1994 to 1996 and Auditing representative for the Ministry of Justice in regard to the Police Districts and the Prosecutorial Authorities from 2000 to 2002.
• Since 2002 Janni Christoffersen has been a member of the Board of the Union of Public-Sector Leaders in the Association of Danish Lawyers and Economist.

Mr Viljar Peep (Ph.D), Director General, Estonian Data Protection Inspectorate (Andmekaitse Inspektsioon). The Inspectorate is the supervisory authority for personal data protection and freedom of information.

Professional record:

Mr. Peep was appointed for a period of 5 years with effect from 1st October 2008. Prior to the last appointment he led a division at Estonian Ministry of Justice, responsible for courts’ management, for commercial and real estate registration, for state-funded legal aid, for civil enforcement system and for notaries’ service. Also, he has been active in legislative drafting and he had led the projects of 2-hours online registration for companies and cross-border usage of electronic signatures.

Education and Training

Mr. Peep has a PhD in history of law (Tartu University) and he has taught history of economy at Tallinn University of Technology.

• Peter Schaar was born in Berlin 1954. He is married with two children.
• Federal Data Protection Commissioner since 17 December 2003. He is the Chairman of the working group of the European Data Protection Commissioners pursuant to Art. 29 of the EU-Data Protection Directive. He was re-elected for a second two-year term as Chairman at the beginning of 2006.
• Holding a diploma in economics he worked from 1980 to 1983 with the Senate’s office for administrative services of the Free and Hanseatic Town of Hamburg.
• After his activities as head of section for data processing and statistics with the agency for schools and vocational training of the Free and Hanseatic Town of Hamburg he worked from 1986 to 1994 as head of section with the Hamburg Data Protection Commissioner and was deputy there from 1994 to 2002.
• In 2001 and 2002 he committed himself as a member of the Attendant Commission to the Modernization of Data Protection Law.
• On 1 November 2002 he changed into private business and founded a consulting firm for data protection in Hamburg which he ran as managing director until October 2003.
• His further engagements are covering the Gesellschaft für Informatik (Society for Informatics), the International Working Group on Data Protection in Telecommunications (IWGDPT), the Hamburger Datenschutzgesellschaft (HDG, Hamburg Society of Data Protection) as well as the Humanistische Union (Humanistic Union).
• Since 1 January 2006 he is also Federal Commissioner for Freedom of Information

Mr Christos YERARIS, born in 1938

• President of the Hellenic Data Protection Authority since April 2008.
• He has a Law Degree from the University of Athens (1961) and has also studied European Community Law at the University of Paris I (1978-1979).
• He has been Auditor (1963), Associate Judge (1973), Councillor of State (1982), Vice-president (1997) and President of the Council of State (Supreme Administrative Court) (1999-2005).
• Member and later President of the Supreme Special Court (art. 100 of the Constitution).
• Judge at the Court of First Instance of the European Communities (1989-1992).
• He has held the position of judge ad hoc at the European Court of Human Rights.
• He has taught at the National School of Public Administration and at the National School of Judges.
• He has published articles and commentaries mainly on issues relating to European Union Law.
• He has been President and member of several scientific associations and is currently President of the Hellenic Association of European Law and member of the editorial board of the journal Europoliteia.
   

Mr. Artemi RALLO, Director of the Spanish Data Protection Agency

• Artemi Rallo Lombarte, Director General of the Juridical Studies Centre, born on 9 August 1965, in Castellón
• Graduate in Law with Extraordinary Prize Honours (1988) and Doctor in Law at the University of Valencia (1990).
• Professor of Constitutional Law at the Jaume I University of Castellón, where he was also Head of the Constitutional Law Department (1993-1998). He has performed research activity at international centres such as the International Human Rights Institute with its seat in Strasbourg, the Theory of State Department of La Sapienza University (Rome) and the Centre de Recherche de Droit Constitutionnel at the Paris I-Pantheòn-Sorbonne University. He is the author of numerous monographs, collective books and scientific articles in specialised national and international magazines.
• He has participated in national and international research lines and projects on contemporary transformations of the Public Administration, featuring independent Administrations, on electoral guarantees, the threats to informative pluralism, the issues of present Parliament, protection of fundamental rights in the process of European integration and the processes of political decentralisation in the Member States of the European Union.
• Has collaborated with European institutional support programmes in Latin America, aimed at promoting political decentralisation and strengthening of the parliamentary institutions, the Executive Power and the Judicial Power.

Alex Türk, CNIL
Chairman of the Art. 29 Working Party Data Protection

• Alex Türk was elected as President of the Commission nationale de l’informatique et des libertés (CNIL) on February 3, 2004. He was initially appointed as member of the CNIL in 1992. He was the Vice President of CNIL from 2002 to 2004.
• In his capacity as CNIL member, Alex Türk was elected Chairman of the Schengen Joint Supervisory Authority (1995-1997), Chairman of the Europol JSA (2000-2002) and of the Supervisory Authority of Eurodac (2003).
• Alex Türk was elected as a member of the French Senate on September 24, 1992. He was re-elected in September 2001. He belongs to the Law Commission and to the EU Delegation of the Senate. He was elected as a Counselor of the Lille-centre County Council in 2001.
• Alex Türk, PhD., teaches public law at Lille II University. He is a lecturer at the Institute of Lille Political Science Institute and Catholic Universities.

Mr. Billy HAWKES, Data Protection Commissioner

• Mr. Billy Hawkes was appointed by the Irish Government to be Data Protection Commissioner for a five year period with effect from 6 July 2005.
• Prior to his appointment, he served in various Government Departments, most recently the Departments of Finance, Foreign Affairs (foreign service), and Enterprise, Trade and Employment.

• He is currently President of the Italian data protection authority
• Mr. Pizzetti is Full Professor of Constitutional Law in the University of Turin, Italy, Faculty of Law, and Professor in the Link University of Malta in Rome. He has held academic offices in other Italian Universities.
• He acted as advisor in constitutional law and public administrative law to Italian governments in the 1987 to 2001 period, and from 1990 to 1993 he was deputy-major of the city of Turin.
  From 1996 until 1998, he served as the Secretary to the Italian “State-Cities and Local Autonomies Conference” (“Conferenza Stato-Città-Autonomie locali”) and the “Unified Conference” (“Conferenza Unificata”).
  From 1998 until 2001, he was Director of the Italian Superior School of Public Administration (“Scuola Superiore della Pubblica Amministrazione”).
  From 1996 until now, he has been the President of the Commission for Agreements between the State and Religious Confessions (“Commissione per le Intese tra lo Stato italiano e le Confessioni religiose).
  He is currently a member of the Council of the Presidency of the Italian Administrative Judiciary (“Consiglio di Presidenza della Giustizia amministrativa”).
• Mr. Pizzetti is a member of the Board of Directors of the Italian Association of Constitutional Law. He has performed extensive researches on issues and topics related to the Italian and European Constitutional Law, with particular regard to the Italian Republic’s Constitutional Reform, the Italian federalism, and the development of a complex system of governance within the European institutional framework and legal order. He has also authored several scientific papers, articles, contributions and books on constitutional law and administrative reformation, including Federalismo, regionalismo e riforma dello Stato [Federalism, Regionalism, and Reforming the State], Giappichelli, Turin, 1996 and 1997, and La costituzione europea [The European Constitution], Astrid, Il Mulino, Bologna, 2004 (F. Bassanini and G. Tiberi eds.).

Dr. András Jóri

• Dr. András Jóri obtained his law degree at Eötvös Loránd University, Faculty of Law and Political Sciences, Budapest; he is also a certified system administrator.
• Between 1997 and 2000 he was a staff member of the Parliamentary Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information.
• Since 2000 he has been a member of the legal advisory board of the Council of Hungarian Internet Providers, responsible for the regulation of domain name delegation process under the .hu top level domain. Since 2001 he has been an attorney and a member of Budapest Bar Association, advising his multinational and domestic clients on data protection law and government agencies on regulation issues concerning data protection, freedom of information (and the reuse of PSI), electronic commerce and electronic signatures.
• Dr. András Jóri is the author of numerous articles on data protection and IT law; in 2005, as one of his most important works he published his Data Protection Handbook.

Mrs Goulla FRANGOU, Personal Data Protection Commissioner since March 2001.

• Mrs Frangou was appointed by the Council of Ministers as the first Personal Data Protection Commissioner for a 4 year term commencing 1st March 2001.
• Mrs Frangou is a barrister-at-law and prior to her appointment she held the position of an Attorney in the Office of the Attorney-General.

Signe PLUMINA is graduate of Faculty of Law, University of Latvia. She has been working at the Legal Department of Ministry of Transport. She is director of Data State Inspection since it was established.

• While working at the Ministry of Transport, where Signe Plumina was responsible for elaboration of legal acts in the field of informatics, she participated in a work group that developed the Law on Personal Data Protection, as well as the draft plan on State Information System and the provisions of the Cabinet of Ministers No 40, January 30, 2001 on "Obligatory technical and organizational requirements for protection of personal data processing systems". She has also participated at the elaboration of regulations of the Cabinet of Ministers No 106, March 21, 2001 on "Regulations of Information System Security". She has lead a working group that elaborated supplement for Personal Data Protection Law to be able to introduce requirements of European Union completely.
• Signe Plumina at the moment is leading a working group under the Ministry of Justice that is elaborating amendments on Administrative Penal Code of Latvia - a new chapter on administrative penal in the field of information technology and Internet, besides that she participates in a working group that elaborates legal acts in accordance with the draft Law for Electronic documents.
• Signe Plumina has taken part in different workshops, seminars, expert meetings that have taken place in Latvia in the concerning the issue of personal data protection. She has also participated in different international conferences, seminars, symposiums that are related to personal data protection, freedom of information and information technologies. Her practical experience has been obtained by visiting different data supervision institutions abroad.
• Signe Plumina is participating at the Consultative Comity that has been established in accordance with Convention for the Protection of Individuals with regard to Automatic Processing of Personal Data (28.01.1981) as well as at the Central and Eastern Europe Data Protection Commissioners meetings. Signe Plumina has been specialized on the issues related to the field of personal data protection, freedom of information issues as well as in the IT rights.
  

Algirdas KUNčINAS, Director of the State Data Protection Inspectorate.

Mr Algirdas Kunčinas was appointed by the Government of the Republic of Lithuania to be Director from 15 May 2006.

EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATION

• 1965–1970 Vilnius Institute of Civil Engineering (currently – Vilnius Gediminas Technical University), speciality of engineer radio operator
• 1975–1978 post-graduate course under Department of Philosophy of Vilnius University
• 1982 defended philosophy probationer’s (currently – Doctor of Humanities) subject of dissertation Knowledge as functional Modelling, associate professor

WORK EXPERIENCE

• 1970–1985 Vilnius Institute of Civil Engineering (currently - Vilnius Gediminas Technical University) Department of Philosophy
• 1985–1990 Ministry of Higher and Special Secondary Education (1988–1990 – Ministry of Population Education)
• 1990–1992 Vilnius Technical University (currently - Vilnius Gediminas Technical University) Department of Philosophy
• 1992–1996 was elected to the Seimas
• 1996–2000 Vilnius Gediminas Technical University, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences
• 2000–2004 was elected to the Seimas

SCIENTIFIC ACTIVITY

Published over 50 research and popular science articles on science methodology, technical philosophy, development of information society issues in Lithuania, Russia, Germany.

• Curriculum Vitae

Mr. Joseph EBEJER

Mr Joseph Ebejer was appointed Data Protection Commissioner on the 24th February 2009. Before this appointment Mr Ebejer was a public officer for over 43 years, most of which were spent within the Department of Social Security. Between 1995 and 2000 he served as Director within the Ministry for Home Affairs. His responsibilities in this position included those for the Passport Office and the Civil Status Office. For the last 8½ years, Mr Ebejer occupied the position of Permanent Secretary within the Ministry for Social Policy where he oversaw the introduction of new legislation transposing the EU acquis in the social sector and the setting up of the necessary structures for its implementation. During his career he was a member of various committees and working groups, including the Project Committee for the Computerisation of the Department of Social Security, the Committee for the Drafting of Legislation on Data Protection and Privacy, Electronic Commerce and Computer Misuse, the Inter-ministerial Committee on Refugees and the Pensions and the Rent Reform Working Groups.

Jacob KOHNSTAMM,
Vice-Chairman of the Art. 29 Working Party Data Protection

Before his appointment to Chairman of the Dutch Data Protection Authority Jacob Kohnstamm had been a member of the Senate of the States General for D66 since 1999. In addition, he was chairman of a large number of organisations and committees including the Regieraad ICT Politie [Board for Information and Communications Technology for the Police]

He was State Secretary for Internal Affairs between 1994 and 1998 and in particular was responsible for developing the Large Cities Policy.

After completing his studies in law at the University of Amsterdam, J. Kohnstamm worked as a lawyer between 1977 and 1981 and between 1982 and 1986.

In 1981 he was elected a member of the House of Representatives of the States General. He was a spokesman for his political party in the areas of defence, the police and justice. From 1982 to 1986 he held the position of party chairman.

Between 1986 and 1994 Kohnstamm was again a member of the House of Representatives. In the first session period he was spokesman for internal affairs, the police and the Middle East. In this period he was also Chairman of the standing parliamentary committee National Ombudsman. In the parliamentary period that followed, namely between 1989 and 1994, he was spokesman in the policy areas of public health, the police and the Middle East and also chairman of the standing parliamentary committee for the police.

Additional functions

• Chairman of the Board of the Garantie Instituut voor de Woningbouw [Guarantee Institute for Housing] (since 2004)
• Chairman of the Board of Commissioners of the Woningbouwcorporatie Het Oosten [Het Oosten Housing Corporation] (since 2000)
• Chairman of the Stichting Stimuleringsfonds Openbare Gezondheidszorg [Foundation and Fund for the Promotion of Public Healthcare] (since 2000)
• Chairman of the Humanistische Omroep [Humanist Broadcasting Corporation] (since 1999) and of the organisation according to Article 39 of the media law, and in this capacity, a member of the Raad van Toezicht van de Publieke Omroep [Supervisory Board of the Public Broadcasting Corporations] (since 2000)
• Chairman of the Nederlandse Vereniging voor Vrijwillig Levenseinde (NVVE) [Dutch Association for Voluntary Euthanasia] (since 2000) and chairman of the Board of the World Federation for the Right to Die Societies (since 2004)

At present:

• Director, Prime Minister's office, constitutional service, department reponsible for legal questions of electronic data processing (including data protection) and legal questions of administrative reform (including clearance of laws)
• Executive member, Data Protection Commission
• Deputy member (representing the federation), Data Protection Council
• Representative of Austria in various committees (EU, OECD, etc.)
• Data Protection Commissioner, Council of Europe
• Intensive lecturing and counselling activity for legislative projects in East and South Eastern Europe, mostly for the account of the Council of Europe

Previous functions:

• Assistant professor, Institute of public administration (Prof. DDr. Robert Walter, University of Economy, Vienna)
• Legal Adviser, Prime Minister's office, constitutional service

Mr Michał SERZYCKI, Inspector General for Personal Data Protection

• Michał Serzycki was appointed by the Polish Parliament as the Inspector General for Personal Data Protection for a four year period with effect from 13 July 2006.
• He graduated Faculty of Law and Administration at Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University
• He currently continues graduate study for executive staff in administration at the Academy of Entrepreneurship and Management
• He completed numerous courses for executive official personnel in public administration.
• He held a high-ranking position in the National Fund for Rehabilitation of the Handicapped (PFRON).
• From 2002 he held the position of Deputy Mayor of Warszawa – Wola District.

Formation Académique

• Mrs. Basarabescu (born in 1951) was appointed as President of the National Supervisory Authority for Personal Data Processing by Decision of the Romanian Senate in September 2005;
• Mrs. Basarabescu has been active in the legal field since 1972 both in the public and private sector;
• Mrs. Basarabescu, as lawyer in the Bucharest bar association, has specialized in the enforcement of human rights;
• Since 1998, she has worked as an expert, counselor, director and then deputy of the Romanian Ombudsman (People’s Advocate).

Ms. Nataša Pirc MUSAR, Information Commissioner, Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Slovenia – Inspectorate for Protection of Personal Data

Nataša Pirc Musar was born in 1968 in Ljubljana. After graduating from the Faculty of Law in Ljubljana in 1992, she passed the bar examination in 1997. After completing her studies she was employed for six years at the Slovenian national television as a journalist and news presenter of the main news TV Dnevnik. Subsequently, she worked for five years as news presenter on “24 ur”, the central information programme of the largest commercial television broadcaster in Slovenia, POP TV.

She gained additional experience in journalism at CNN, and attended the Media Department of the Salford University in Manchester in the UK for two semesters. During her studies she did her professional practice at BBC, Granada TV, Sky News, Reuters TV and Border TV.

She has also contributed newspaper articles and worked on radio. Striving for new knowledge, she moved in 2001 to the financial sector where she joined the largest Slovenian private financial corporation Aktiva Group as a Head of Corporate Communications. In April 2003 she became Director of Training and Communications Centre at the Supreme Court of the Republic of Slovenia. On July 15th, 2004, she was elected in the National Assembly to become the second slovenian commissioner for access to public information. She was nominated by the President of the Republic of Slovenia. From December 31, 2005 onwards, when Office of the Commissioner for Access to Public Information merged with the Inspectorate for Personal Data Protection, Nataša Pirc Musar performs her function as an Information Commissioner.

Nataša Pirc Musar is fluent in Croatian/Serbian and English.

Mr. Gyula VESZELEI

EDUCATION:

• Comenius University, Faculty of Law, Bratislava, graduated in 1975
• 1978 – judicial examination
• 1993 – commercial law examination

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE :

April 2004 – to the present time – The President of The Office for Personal Data Protection

PREVIOUS CAREER:

• 2003 – 2004 Vice-President of The Office for Personal Data Protection
• 1999 – 2003 Regional Authorities in Komárno – Chief of the general inward administration and healthcare department
• 1997 – 1999 Commercial lawyer
• 1995 – 1997 External legal adviser
• 1985 – 1995 Managing lawyer
• 1975 – 1985 Judicial practice (civil law, commercial law, labour law, family law)

• Reijo Aarnio (born 1955) graduated from the University of Helsinki, Faculty of Law in 1981. He then worked at several expert and managerial tasks in the private sector. He aided the committee drafting the Personal Data Act in an expert capacity.
• Reijo Aarnio became Data Protection Ombudsman on 1 November 1997, taking over from Jorma Kuopus, LLD. The Data Protection Ombudsman is appointed for a term of five years.
• Mr. Aarnio is a member of the Steering Group of Information Security in State Government, the Telecommunications Advisory Board, and the Ministry of Social Affairs and Health working group on labour issues.

His previous career has included:

• Personnel Manager within the County Council of Stockholm
• Head of negotiations of the Swedish Federation of County Councils
• Personnel Director of the National Tax Board

Christopher Graham became UK Information Commissioner in June 2009, with responsibility for overseeing the Freedom of Information Act and Data Protection Act regimes – promoting access to official information and protecting personal information

Christopher was Director General of the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) from April 2000 to June 2009. From 2003-5, he was Chairman of the European Advertising Standards Alliance (EASA), the federation of advertising self-regulatory bodies across the EU Single Market.

Prior to joining the ASA, Christopher was for three years Secretary of the BBC. Christopher first joined the broadcaster as a News Trainee in 1973. He was Deputy Editor of The Money Programme and became Managing Editor of News Programmes for TV and Radio.

Peter Hustinx has served as EDPS since January 2004, contributing to the building of the new supervisory authority and developing its role at Community level. He was reappointed for a second five-year term of office in January 2009.

Prior to his appointment as EDPS, Mr Hustinx worked as the President of the Dutch Data Protection Authority as from 1991. Between 1996 and 2000, he was Chairman of the Article 29 Data Protection Working Party.

His long standing experience in the field also extends to the broader European level; covering work as an expert in the Committee which prepared the Council of Europe Convention on data protection (No. 108). He also has data protection experience from the law enforcement field, having been Chairman of the Appeals Committee of the Joint Supervisory Body of Europol, and Chairman of the Commission for the Control of Interpol's Files.