Elif Kiesow Cortez is a researcher and lecturer in data protection and privacy compliance in the International and European Law Program. Before joining THUAS, Elif was a John M. Olin Fellow in Law and Economics at Harvard Law School. During her doctoral studies at the Graduate School in Law and Economics, University of Hamburg, Elif was a visiting fellow at Harvard Business School and a visiting scholar at Berkeley School of Law. Elif’s research is focused on utilizing economic analysis of law to provide recommendations for solving cooperation problems between public and private actors in the domains of data protection and privacy. Elif is currently a member of the IAPP Advisory Board on CIPP/E Exam Development.

Catherine Garcia-van Hoogstraten, is lecturer and researcher in Data Governance, Cybersecurity Law & Policy, ICT Law and eGovernance in the International Public Management Programme. Her research concerns to Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) countering Cybercrimes. She has pursued advanced studies on Data Protection and Privacy, Information Security, and Philosophy of Technology Design. Over 10 years bridging policy silos in the digital field, working on cutting edge technology-related legal issues, looking at internet regulatory and public policy frameworks around digital media, ICT and emerging technologies. Leading and developing stakeholder engagement programmes, as well as scientific and technical cooperation, with governments, international organisations, think tanks, civil society and private sector. In 2018 she was nominated and invited to join Global Forum on Cyber Expertise (GFCE) as an Advisory Board Member. She was also invited to the European Commission’s Sounding Board of the Multistakeholder Forum on Disinformation that developed a Code of Practice to tackle online disinformation.

Vanaf 2010 ben ik docent bij De Haagse Hogeschool voor de Faculteit Bestuur, Recht en Veiligheid bij de opleiding Integrale Veiligheidskunde/Safety & Security Management Studies. Sinds 2017 ben ik lid van de kenniskring Filosofie en Beroepspraktijk. Binnen de kenniskring doe ik onderzoek naar ‘Resilience’ als theoretisch model voor zowel industriële als publieke veiligheid. Voor contact kan je mailen naar: j.c.w.gooren@hhs.nl.

Marco Romagna is lecturer in ‘Legal and criminological aspects of cyber security’ and researcher for the Centre of Expertise Cyber Security within the Faculty of IT & Design. He is external PhD candidate at Leiden University with a project on “Hacktivism: honorable cause and/or serious threat?”. Before joining the Centre, Marco was an intern at eCrime (Trento University), Cyber Security Academy (The Hague) and Eurojust and he worked as digital commerce fraud analyst at Nike. Marco holds an LLM in Laws (Trento University) and an MA in Global Criminology (Utrecht University). Beside hacktivism and cyber security, his main research interests focus on cybercrime, criminology and the related criminal law. Marco follows with particular attention new developments in technology especially when linked with legal challenges.