About the IAPP

Gwendal Le Grand is the deputy head of Secretariat of the European Data Protection Board (EDPB), which he joined in October 2021. The EDPB Secretariat is in charge of providing legal support for the drafting of EDPB documents, IT solutions to ensure transparent communications between all the European national data protection authorities, handling EDPB media relations, as well as organizing all EDPB meetings. He is particularly involved in the Coordinated Enforcement Framework (CEF), and the Support Pool of Experts (SPE) which aim to assist national supervisory authorities in the framework of their investigations and enforcement activities of significant common interest. He was previously the Deputy Secretary-General at the French data protection authority CNIL (Commission Nationale de l’Informatique et des Libertés), and was also the coordinator of the technology expert subgroup of the EDPB. He started his career in academia as an associate professor in networking and security. Gwendal received his PhD in computer science from the University of Paris 6 in July 2001.