About the IAPP

Anna Buchta is the Head of litigation and institutional policy in the European Data Protection Supervisor’s office in Brussels. 

Previously, she worked for the European Commission, dealing with data privacy in electronic communications and later with data protection aspects of cross-border data exchanges in the public sector. 

Before that, she worked as a researcher at ICRI, the Interdisciplinary Centre for Law and ICT at the Catholic University of Leuven (Belgium) and as a lawyer with Baker & McKenzie Warsaw (Poland). 

She has extensive experience in EU data protection and privacy regulations, EU institutional law, as well as first-hand knowledge of the EU legislative process. 

Anna is coordinating the EDPS litigation practice, as well as the work related to the data protection reform. 

She has a master's degree in Law from the University of Warsaw and a Master of Laws (LL.M.) degree from the K.U. Leuven.