Biography
Stefan Niederer is Senior Data Protection Officer at the Department for European and International Affairs of the Office of the Federal Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information. Located in Bonn, Germany, he has attended frequently meetings of the Cooperation Expert Subgroup in Brussels, which is an entity of the European Data Protection Board and its predecessor, the Article-29-Working-Party, where data protection regulators from EU member states come together to discuss important cases and topics that are of significance for many or all member states. His expertise also covers international bodies, since he regularly contributes to the work of the OECD´s Working Party on Security and Privacy in the Digital Economy (WP SPDE) as well as to the Council of Europe´s Committee on Data Protection (T-PD) or to the Global Privacy Enforcement Network (GPEN). He represents his office at the annual meetings of the International Conference of Data Protection and Privacy Commissioners and in topic-specific working groups of the conference, too. As to his background, he has studied public law, economics and public administration being a graduate of the Federal University of Administrative Sciences. After services at various federal agencies he joined the Federal Commissioner´s Office in 2007, where he first worked in the Department for Police and Intelligence Affairs before moving on to the European and International Department.