Tiina Suomela, CIPP/E, CIPM, CIPT, FIP

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Myovant Sciences GmbH

Global Data Privacy Lead

Tiina Suomela is responsible for developing policy frameworks to ensure strategic and operational legal compliance within Data Protection and Corporate Compliance. She has held global in-house roles in legal, compliance and privacy for businesses and brands that operate worldwide.



Tiina sees the role of legal counsel as a business operations partner who develops the organization’s legal obligations into legal assets that help these businesses strategically advance into the future. Being fascinated with how the law could support businesses of the future from early in her career, she has been advising on data protection compliance since the year 2000 and has served as In-House Counsel to companies active in the IT, e-Commerce, service, and heathcare/medical device sectors. In addition to her IAPP certifications (CIPM, CIPP/E, CIPT) she is a certified German data protection officer (UDIS) since 2003 and a ForHumanity Certified Independent Auditor of AI systems (GDPR). To encourage legal compliance, buy-in, business-wide, Tiina is an advocate of best-practice sharing through professional networks, and is responsible for several hands-on legal and compliance trainings, from conception to delivery.



Tiina holds a postgraduate certificate in Information Technology and Telecommunications law from the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, an LL.M degree in international contract and commercial law from the University of Helsinki and a law degree from the University of Frankfurt am Main. 



 Contributions by Tiina Suomela

·      Co-Chair KnowledgeNet Switzerland 2016-2017

·      Privacy by Design: Implementation Strategies (KnowledgeNet Switzerland, May 2016)

·      Member of Training Advisory Board 2018-2019

·      Member of Training Advisory Board 2022 - 2023

 

Contributions by Tiina Suomela

  • Member of Training Advisory Board 2022 - 2023