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Biography

Member of the Legal Service of the European Commission & Professor in European Privacy and Data Protection Law at Maastricht University Prof. Herke Kranenborg is a member of the Legal Service of the European Commission, having worked mainly in the field of privacy and data protection, and recently on AI and cybersecurity. In that role he advises the Commission and its departments in these areas and represents the Commission in litigation before the EU Court of Justice in Luxembourg. He has represented the Commission in around 150 cases on data protection before the EU Court of Justice. In addition, Herke Kranenborg holds a chair as professor in European Data Protection and Privacy Law at Maastricht University, situated in the Maastricht Centre for European Law (MCEL) and the European Centre on Privacy and Cybersecurity (ECPC). Previously, Herke Kranenborg worked at the office of the European Data Protection Supervisor, and was affiliated senior researcher at the Institute for European Law of the K.U. Leuven.