Leonardo Cervera Navas is the Director of the Office of the EDPS, the Data Protection Authority of the EU. Law graduate of the University of Málaga. Master’s degree in European Law from the University of Granada. Fellow at Duke University in North Carolina as part of the EU Fellowship Programme of the European Commission. Post-graduate diploma in HR management by Kingston University. Member of the Málaga Academy of Sciences (correspondent in Brussels). Working in Data Protection in the EU institutions since 1999, in the European Commission and in 2010 he joined the EDPS as Head of HR, Budget and Administration. In 2018 he was appointed Director responsible for coordination and implementation of the strategies and policies of the institution.