Project Coordinator

Prof Dr Joe Cannataci is the Project Coordinator of CARISMAND and Co-Director of the STeP Research Group. He is Full Professor, holding the Chair of European Information Policy & Technology Law within the Faculty of Law, University of Groningen, The Netherlands and is also Head of the Department of Information Policy & Governance  http://www.um.edu.mt/maks/ipg  at the Faculty of Media & Knowledge Sciences of the University of Malta. Additionally, he is Adjunct Professor at the Security Research Institute & School of Computer and Security Science, Edith Cowan University Australia www.secau.org.

Vice-Chairman/Chairman of Council of Europe’s (CoE) Commmittee of Experts on Data Protection 1992-1998, Working Parties on: Data Protection and New technologies (1995-2000);  Data Protection & Insurance (1994-1998); CoE Rapporteur on Data Protection and Police (1993; 2010; 2012); CoE Expert Consultant on Data Protection and Cybercrime (2012-2014); UNESCO Expert Consultant on Privacy & Transparency on the Internet (2015);  Scientific Co-ordinator of multiple EU FP7 & H2020 research projects focussing on privacy. Decorated by the Republic of France as Officier de l'Ordre de Palmes Academiques (2002). Appointed UN Special Rapporteur on Privacy in 2015. His latest book The Individual and Privacy was published by Ashgate in March 2015.

More information and publications at: http://www.rug.nl/staff/j.a.cannataci/

Bettina Zijlstra is Head of Project Office - EU Projects Manager/Projects Officer at the Faculty of Law, University of Groningen, the Netherlands. Bettina holds a Bachelors degree in Business Administration and a LL.M. degree in International and European Law. After receiving her BBA degree she followed a one year Leadership Program at the MorningStar University in Charlotte, NC, U.S. After gaining this international experience she continued her studies in the Netherlands with achieving the LL.M. degree in International and European Law. She wrote her Master’s thesis on: ‘The Whereabouts System and the Right to Privacy’ at the department of European and Economic Law. During her years of studying Bettina has held fulltime (management) positions at different major companies gaining experience in the field of financial, administrative and project management. Since May 2010 she has been working at the University of Groningen and since December 2011 she works at the Faculty of Law of the University of Groningen. Bettina is a certified PRINCE2 Practitioner.