IAPP Data Protection Intensive: France 2023

Louis Dutheillet de Lamothe was born in 1983 and is a graduate of the École Nationale d'Administration (class of 2008-2010 "Émile Zola"), Sciences Po Paris and the École Normale Supérieure.

At the Council of State, he successively held the positions of rapporteur to the 4th chamber of the Litigation and Administrative Departments, head of the Legal Research and Dissemination Center (CRDJ) and public rapporteur to the 6th chamber of the Litigation Department.

Louis Dutheillet de Lamothe joined the CNIL as Secretary General in April 2020.

Gwendal Le Grand is the deputy head of Secretariat of the European Data Protection Board (EDPB), which he joined in October 2021. The EDPB Secretariat is in charge of providing legal support for the drafting of EDPB documents, IT solutions to ensure transparent communications between all the European national data protection authorities, handling EDPB media relations, as well as organizing all EDPB meetings. He is particularly involved in the Coordinated Enforcement Framework (CEF), and the Support Pool of Experts (SPE) which aim to assist national supervisory authorities in the framework of their investigations and enforcement activities of significant common interest. He was previously the Deputy Secretary-General at the French data protection authority CNIL (Commission Nationale de l’Informatique et des Libertés), and was also the coordinator of the technology expert subgroup of the EDPB. He started his career in academia as an associate professor in networking and security. Gwendal received his PhD in computer science from the University of Paris 6 in July 2001.

Yann Padova joined Baker McKenzie as a partner in the Information Technology Group and head of the Data Protection Practice in Paris. He is internationally recognized in digital network law, personal data and regulatory law. Yann Padova has extensive experience in data protection, having served for 20 years as a regulator and a lawyer.

In November 2017, he was appointed “Country Leader” by the IAPP.

Isabelle Vereecken is head of Secretariat of the European Data Protection Board. The EDPB Secretariat is in charge of providing legal support for the drafting of EDPB documents, IT solutions to ensure transparent communications between all the European national data protection authorities, handling EDPB media relations, as well as organizing all EDPB meetings. She is leading the Secretariat from the beginning of its existence.

Prior to working for the EDPB, she was a legal advisor at the Belgian Data Protection Authority for 10 years. In this position, she was in charge of international data transfers matters and she regularly contributed to the work of the Article 29 Working Party. In addition, she followed closely the negotiation of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), being detached at the European Commission working on the proposal and after by acting as an expert to support the Belgian government during the negotiation.

She started her career as a researcher and worked at the CRID (Computer and Law Research Centre – University of Namur) on data protection, intellectual property rights and e-commerce issues.

She has a master’s degree in law from the University of Louvain-la-Neuve (Belgium) and a postgraduate degree in ICT law from the University of Namur.