Shara Monteleone is currently working as a legal officer at the Italian Data Protection Authority (Garante per la protezione dei dati personali), which she joined in 2019. Previously, we worked as a policy analyst for the European Parliamentary Research Center (Brussels), as Assistant Professor at the University of Groningen (NL), as a researcher at INRIA (France) and as a policy analyst at the JRC of the European Commission (IPTS, Seville), focusing on policies and legislation in the field of privacy and data protection. She holds a PhD in Law and Technology, an LLM on Media and data protection law from the University of Florence (Italy) and an LLM from the European University Institute. She is an Italian qualified lawyer.