Dr Zoe Kardasiadou is a lawyer by education and has worked in the field of ICT law and data protection since more than 20 years. Her doctoral thesis dealt with product liability and medical malpractice for medical expert systems. She is working for the European Commission, at the Data Protection Unit. Before her current position, she worked as legal officer at the EDPB, EDPS and the EU Fundamental Rights Agency. Zoe also worked for 10 years at the Greek data protection authority, inter alia as Head of Department for policy and supervision. She was member of several legislative committees dealing with data protection law, she teaches and has a series of publications.