About the IAPP

Karen Siemers joined Mediq in 2021 as the Data Protection Officer. Mediq is a healthcare services industry leading company operating across 13 European countries with a mission to improve the quality of life of people with a chronic disease at affordable costs. Mediq does this by supplying medical devices, medication and the related health care services, products and innovative solutions. Mediq is respected as an essential partner to healthcare institutions, hospitals, healthcare insurers, care workers and to patients.

Before joining Mediq, Karen served as senior legal consultant at Privacy Management Partners, a Dutch consultancy firm, where she provided support to both public and private organizations on privacy and data protection matters, varying from compliance with applicable laws as well as strategic privacy management and regulatory affairs. She co-chaired the Dutch chapter of IAPP KnowledgeNet in 2017-2019, while delivering IAPP trainings for several years until 2020 as member of the IAPP Faculty.

Karen holds Masters in Private/Information Laws from University of Amsterdam (LLM) and Communication Sciences (MA) from Utrecht University in the Netherlands. Next to privacy and compliance she likes to focus on other essential topics within the domain of privacy and data protection: practical implementation, clear internal and external communication and the wider social debate.