IAPP Europe Data Protection Congress 2023

Alessandro Acquisti is a Professor of Information Technology and Public Policy at the Heinz College, Carnegie Mellon University, the PwC William W. Cooper Professor of Risk and Regulatory Innovation, and a Carnegie Fellow (inaugural class). He is the director of the Peex (Privacy Economics Experiments) lab at CMU, and the co-director of Carnegie Mellon’s CBDR (Center for Behavioral and Decision Research). Acquisti investigates the economics of privacy. His studies spearheaded the investigation of privacy and disclosure behaviour in online social networks, and the application of behavioural economics to the study of privacy and information security decision making. His studies have won numerous awards and have been published in journals, books and proceedings across different fields, including Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, Management Science, Journal of Economic Literature, Marketing Science, Journal of Consumer Research, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, and Journal of Experimental Psychology. Acquisti has testified before the U.S. Senate and House committees on issues related to privacy policy and consumer behaviour. His findings have been featured in national and international media outlets, including the Economist, The New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, the Financial Times, Wired.com, NPR, CNN, and 60 Minutes. His TED talks on privacy and human behaviour have over 1.2 million views online. Acquisti holds a PhD from UC Berkeley and master’s degrees from UC Berkeley, the London School of Economics and Trinity College Dublin.

Alexander Bielefeld is Director Global Policy & Strategy (Men’s football) at FIFPRO – Football Players Worldwide. Bielefeld has been working for a decade on matters affecting players and has represented their collective interests at the highest levels of international professional football. In his current role he represented professional players in international employment negotiations on issues including workload, peak performance, health and safety, financial regulations, human rights, technology and data, as well as other strategic labour rights. He also coordinates relations with other player unions and public institutions. Bielefeld has been previously working as a consultant for Burson-Marsteller and holds degrees in international (sports) politics and Management from College of Europe, CDES Limoges and INSEAD, amongst others.

Mette Birkedal Bruun is professor of church history and director of the Centre for Privacy Studies at the University of Copenhagen. Her research focuses on religiously motivated withdrawal from the world, especially in Christian monasticism. Mette is the founding editor of Privacy Studies Journal and member of the Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters as well as the Danish Council for Research and Innovation Policy. She is adamant that we need to approach privacy in a conscious combination of sectors and in ways that are attuned to cultural differences. Taking a historical perspective is one way of honing this attunement.

Sean Cottrell is the co-founder and CEO of LawInSport, the world's "go to resource" for sports law, a knowledge hub and educational platform for a global community of 30,000+ people working in or with an interest in sport and the law. It serves lawyers, sports executives and administrators, athletes, students and academics. Cotrell is often asked to interview speakers, moderate or chair seminars, workshops and conferences. Cottrell is a guest lecturer at a number of universities covering a variety of topics related to sports law, entrepreneurship, personal and career development.

LawInSport plays a key role in the development of domestic and international sports law, policy and regulation. In addition to publishing high-quality legal articles, LawInSport hosts podcasts, webinars, conferences and training courses. In 2018, LawInSport launched a recruitment division and has helped hundreds of sports teams, agencies, tech and media organisations and international law firms find talented lawyers to join their organisations.

LawInSport is committed to creating an inclusive culture in our sector. It runs a global Mentoring Scheme that has supported 180 mentees from 25 countries since its launch in 2019, and an annual international Sports Law Arbitration Moot (SLAM).

Members of LawInSport include international sports federations, such as FIFA, AFC, World Athletics, FIA, FIM, The English Football Association, EFL, Indian Super League, 50 Premier League, EFL and LaLiga clubs, and many of world's leading sports law firms, barrister chambers and academic institutions.

Helen Dixon was appointed as Data Protection Commissioner for Ireland in September 2014. Responsible for upholding the rights of individuals regarding how data about them is used, the role, among other things, requires regulation of a large number of U.S. internet multinationals with European bases in Ireland. Previously Irish Registrar of Companies where she led regulatory enforcement of compliance with the filing provisions of the Companies Acts, Dixon has also held senior roles in the Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation working on economic migration policy, science, technology and innovation policy. She spent the first ten years of her career in the IT industry. She holds postgraduate qualifications in European Economic and Public Affairs, Governance, Computer Science, Official Statistics for Policy Evaluation, and Judicial Skills and Decision Making. She was delighted to have been awarded an honorary fellowship of the Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators (ICSA) in 2014.

Graham Doyle is a Deputy Commissioner and Head of Corporate Affairs, Media and Communications with the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC).

Within the Corporate Affairs function, Doyle is responsible for the DPC’s Finance, Procurement, Corporate Services, Governance and Risk and Staffing and Training Units and is a member of the DPC’s Audit and Risk committee.

Doyle also develops and manages the DPC’s Communications Strategy, which includes extensive national and international media engagement, attending and speaking at events domestically and abroad, and delivering a comprehensive internal communications programme for the DPC. In 2020, this Strategy includes the development and operationalising of a DPC-facilitated Data Protection Officer (DPO) Network. In addition, the DPC is also commencing a two-year EU funded project in collaboration with the Croatian Data Protection Authority to raise data protection awareness within SMEs.

Doyle previously held the roles of Head of Communications and Research at the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (GSOC) and Student Universal Support Ireland (SUSI) and he holds a graduate honour in Public Management, specialising in Law and the Administration of Justice.

Oliveira e Carmo initiated his career as a research assistant of the Max-Planck Institute during the “Snowden revelations.” Since then, he built privacy management programmes in global acting organisations in the engineering, energy and health industries. Oliveira e Carmo joined the world governing body of football, FIFA in early 2020, building their privacy team and currently heading FIFA´s Data Protection and Cybersecurity Risk Department. While leading privacy and security in the world of sports, they continue to support FIFA´s mission of “making football truly global.”

Schick helps organisations and businesses understand and navigate the exponential technological changes of our age. She is an expert in deepfakes and synthetic media, cybersecurity and the geopolitics of technology. Nina has advised global leaders including Joe Biden and Anders Fogh Rasmussen, the former Secretary General of NATO. She also advises private companies, government agencies and NGOs. Schick’s debut book “Deepfakes” was released in 2020. She has been published in the MIT Tech Review, The New York Times, UnHerd and TIME. Schick also appeared at TedX, CogX and WebSummit in 2021. She speaks seven languages and calls London, Berlin and Kathmandu home.