Isabelle Vereecken

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European Data Protection Board

Head of Secretariat

Isabelle Vereecken is head of Secretariat of the European Data Protection Board. 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. She is leading the Secretariat from the beginning of its existence. 

Prior working for the EDPB, she was a legal advisor at the Belgian Data Protection Authority for 10 years. In this position, she was in charge of international data transfers matters and she regularly contributed to the work of the Article 29 Working Party. In addition, she followed closely the negotiation of the General data protection regulation (GDPR), being detached at the European Commission working on the proposal and after by acting as an expert to support the Belgian government during the negotiation.

She started her career as a researcher and worked at the CRID (Computer and Law Research Centre – University of Namur) on data protection, intellectual property rights and e-commerce issues. 

She has a master degree in law from the University of Louvain-la-Neuve (Belgium) and a postgraduate degree in ICT law from the University of Namur.  

 

Contributions by Isabelle Vereecken

  • The DPO Playbook: Mastering Challenges with Expert Tactics
    Speaker at IAPP Europe Data Protection Congress 2024
  • A Walk Through a Cross-Border Enforcement Case
    Speaker at IAPP Europe Data Protection Congress 2023
  • Not-so-standard Contractual Clauses: Comparing Global Data Transfer Tools
    Speaker at IAPP Global Privacy Summit 2023
  • Is Co-regulation the Future of Privacy? Multi-jurisdictional & Multi-stakeholder
    Speaker at IAPP Global Privacy Summit 2023
  • Séance de cloture
    Speaker at IAPP Data Protection Intensive: France 2023
  • Closing General Session
    Speaker at IAPP Data Protection Intensive: France 2023
  • Privacy and Data Protection Law Forum
    Forum Speaker at IAPP Europe Data Protection Congress 2022
  • Session générale finale
    Speaker at IAPP Data Protection Intensive: France 2022
  • International Transfers: BCR and Codes of Conduct as Alternatives to the SCC?
    Speaker at IAPP Europe Data Protection Congress 2021
  • How to Deal with Facial Recognition and Make it Compliant?
    Web Conference Speaker
  • 2021 Privacy Challenges - Women Leading Privacy Have Their Say
    Speaker at Virtual Brussels KnowledgeNet: 11 March 2021
  • Speaker at IAPP Europe Data Protection Congress 2020 - Cancelled
  • GDPR Investigations: The Belgian DPA’s Perspective and Role of the EDPB
    Speaker at Virtual Brussels KnowledgeNet: 7 May 2020
  • Joint Controllership: In the Trenches
    Speaker at IAPP Europe Data Protection Congress 2019