Dr. Lilian Mitrou is Professor at the University of the Aegean-Greece (Department of Information and Communication Systems Engineering) and Visiting  Professor at the Athens University of Economics, the University of Piraeus and the Harokopeion University (Postgraduate Studies Program). She teaches information law and data protection law. L. Mitrou holds a PhD in Data Protection (University of Frankfurt-Germany). Her thesis concerned the  institutional control of data processing and more specifically the Data Protection Models and Authorities in the Federal Republic of Germany and France. She has served as a Member of the Hellenic Data Protection Authority (1999-2003). From 1998 till 2004 she was the national representative in the EC- Committee on the Protection of Individuals with regard to the Processing of Personal Data. She served and still serves as member of many Committees working on law proposals in the fields of privacy and data protection, communications law, e-government etc.  . During the Greek Presidency of the Council of EU (2014) she has served as Chair of DAPIX (Working Group on Information Exchange and Data Protection) and since June 2016 she is Chair of the Draft Committee on the adaptation of Greek law to the General Data Protection Regulation (2016/679/EU) and the Data Protection Directive (2016/680/EU). Since November 2016 she is member of the Greek National Council for Radio and Television (NCRTV). She is President of the Institute for Privacy Law, Data Protection and Technology at the European Public Law Organisation (EPLO)> Her professional experience includes senior consulting and researcher positions in a number of private and public institutions and projects on national and international level. Her research interests include: Privacy and Data Protection, eGovernment services, Internet Law, Digital Forensics, Responsible Research and Innovation. L. Mitrou published books, chapters in books and many journal and conference papers (in English, German and Greek).