Stefan Brink

Wida Digital

Executive Director

Stefan Brink, born in 1966, studied law in Mainz, Heidelberg, Dijon and Paris. After completing his doctorate under Prof. Dr. Hans Herbert von Arnim (DUV Speyer), he worked for the Scientific Service of the Rhineland-Palatinate State Parliament, then as a judge at the Administrative Court of Koblenz and as a research assistant at the Federal Constitutional Court (1st Senate, Prof. Dr. Reinhard Gaier).



From 2008 to 2016, he was Head of Private Data Protection at the State Commissioner for Data Protection in Rhineland-Palatinate and, since 2012, also Deputy State Commissioner for Freedom of Information in Rhineland-Palatinate; from January 2017 to December 2022, Dr. Stefan Brink was State Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information in Baden-Württemberg.



Since January 2023, Dr. Stefan Brink has headed the independent institute wida in Berlin (scientific institute for the digitalization of the working world), which accompanies the digital transformation with a view to our civil rights and develops digital projects.

 

Contributions by Stefan Brink

  • Better Regulation: How to Make Simplification of Data Laws Useful and Workable
    Speaker at IAPP Europe Data Protection Congress 2025
  • Privacy Litigation under the GDPR: History, Present and Future
    Speaker at In-Person Munich KnowledgeNet: 27 May 2025
  • Quo vadis Employee Data Protection: Insights from legislation, case law and authority practice
    Speaker at In-Person Munich KnowledgeNet: 23 Nov. 2023
  • DPO 2.0 - Impulse für ein neues Verständnis der DSB-Rolle in der Digital Economy
    Speaker at IAPP Data Protection Intensive: Deutschland 2023
  • Datenschutzfreundliche Voreinstellungen und Microsoft 365
    Speaker at Virtual Stuttgart KnowledgeNet: 22 July 2021