About the IAPP

Before his appointment as Chairman of the Dutch Data Protection Authority in 2004, Jacob Kohnstamm was active in Dutch politics as member of the Lower House of the Dutch Parliament, as State Secretary for Internal Affairs and as member of the Senate of the Dutch Parliament (between 1981 and 2004). Before that, he worked as a lawyer in Amsterdam.



From February 2010 until February 2014, Jacob Kohnstamm was Chairman of the Article 29 Working Party of European Data Protection Authorities, after having been its vice-Chairman for 2 years.



Currently, Jacob Kohnstamm is also Chairman of the Executive Committee of the International Conference of Data Protection and Privacy Commissioners, since 2011.