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Théodore Christakis

University of Grenoble Alpes

Professor of Law

Theodore Christakis (@TC_IntLaw) is Professor of International and European Law at University Grenoble Alpes (France), Director of the Centre for International Security and European Law (CESICE), Director of Research for Europe with the Cross-Border Data Forum, Senior Fellow with the Future of Privacy Forum and a former Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the New York University Cybersecurity Centre. He is Chair on the Legal and Regulatory Implications of Artificial Intelligence with the Multidisciplinary Institute on AI (AI-Regulation.com). He has been a member of the French National Digital Council, and he is currently serving as a member of the French National Committee on Digital Ethics as well as a member of the International Data Transfers Experts Council of the UK Government. As an international expert he has advised governments, international organisations, and private companies on issues concerning international and European law, cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, and data protection law. He also has experience working as external Data Protection Officer (GDPR compliance).

Contributions by Théodore Christakis

• The New Horizon of Fragmentation
  Speaker at IAPP Europe Data Protection Congress 2024
• Balancing Risks and Rewards in GenAI: Legal Basis and Regulatory Intersections
  Speaker at IAPP Europe Data Protection Congress 2024
• Navigating Government Access to Private Data in the EU
  
• Toward a risk-based approach? Challenging the 'zero risk' paradigm of EU DPAs in international data transfers and foreign governments' data access
  Privacy Perspectives
• Moving Beyond Data Localization: Enabling Trusted Cross-Border Data Flows
  Speaker at IAPP Europe Data Protection Congress 2023
• Can Generative AI Survive the GDPR?
  Speaker at AI Governance Global 2023, an IAPP event
• Regulating the Use of Facial Recognition in Public Spaces in Europe and the US
  Speaker at IAPP Global Privacy Summit 2023
• Government Access to Company Data: From Policy to Practice
  Speaker at IAPP Data Protection Intensive: France 2023
• Securely Using Cloud Services with Compliant and Ethical Transfers of Data
  Speaker at IAPP Data Protection Intensive: France 2023
• Solving the EU-US 'Schrems II' Dilemma: Focus on the New EU-US Privacy Framework
  Speaker at IAPP Europe Data Protection Congress 2022
• The redress mechanism in the Privacy Shield successor: On the independence and effective powers of the DPRC
  The Privacy Advisor
• Rebuilding Trust on How Governments Use and Access Data to Safeguard the Public
  Speaker at IAPP Data Protection Intensive: UK 2022
• Privacy Protections for Government Requests Across Borders: EU and Globally
  Speaker at IAPP Europe Data Protection Congress 2021
• Acting on Schrems II and EDPB Recommendations + Profile in Privacy
  Speaker at Virtual Stockholm KnowledgeNet: 1 December 2020