About the IAPP

Frank is director — monitoring and auditing, legal affairs at SCOPE Europe, a subsidiary of Selbstregulierung Informationswirtschaft, where he is deputy managing director, particularly coordinating and managing audit and compliance activities. He constantly contributes to expert and stakeholder groups. He has in-depth knowledge within IT and media law with data protection as field of expertise. He passed both state exams, strongly focusing on information and communication law (first state exam), deepening his expertise by choosing media and copyright law as area of focus for his second state exam. He also holds a related Master of Laws degree and passed the theoretical part for professional lawyers in that area. He is a certified data protection officer and data protection auditor, and independent, registered lawyer. Before being with SRIW/SCOPE Europe, he gained experience from different perspectives, including international law firms, IT companies and data protection supervisory authorities.