Paul De Hert

Paul De Hert is a legal scholar and studied law, philosophy, and religious sciences (resp. Vrije Universiteit Brussels, Université Libre de Bruxelles and K.U. Leuven (1985-1992). De Hert is full professor at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), director of the Brussels Fundamental Right Research Centre (FRC) and senior member of the Law, Science, Technology and Society (LSTS) Large Research Group. At the Tilburg Institute for Law, Technology and Society (TILT, Tilburg University, the Netherlands) he serves as an associated professor and teaches ‘Privacy and data protection law‘. 

De Hert publishes on privacy & technology, selected human rights problems and on criminal law related issues. A rights-based approach combined with a concern for theory is the common denominator of all his work. He is founder of the CPDP-Conference (Computer, Privacy, Data Protection); the Privacy Salon and the Brussels Privacy Hub (with Chris Kuner). In 2023 De Hert was appointed as a Member to the Scientific Committee of the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) based in Vienna for a (renewable) five-year term.