Giovanni Buttarelli
| Giovanni Buttarelli | |
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| European Data Protection Supervisor | |
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In office 4 December 2014 – 4 December 2019 |
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| Preceded by | Peter Hustinx |
| Assistant European Data Protection Supervisor | |
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In office 2009–2014 |
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| Secretary General at | |
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In office 1997–2009 |
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| Personal details | |
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24 June 1957 Frascati, Italy |
| Alma mater | Sapienza University of Rome |
Giovanni Buttarelli (Frascati, 24 June 1957) is the European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS). On 4 December 2014, he was appointed by a joint decision of the European Parliament and the Council. He will serve a five-year term in this position. Previously, he served as Assistant EDPS, from January 2009 until December 2014. He is also a member of the Italian judiciary with the rank of judge of the Court of Cassation.
Before joining the EDPS, Buttarelli worked as Secretary General of the , the Italian Data Protection Authority, between 1997 and 2009.
Giovanni Buttarelli was born in 1957 in Frascati, a little town near Rome. He graduated “cum laude” from La Sapienza University in Rome in 1984, where he also worked as a teaching assistant at the Faculty of Law. Specifically, he worked with Prof. Franco Cordero on Criminal Procedure until 1990. He was appointed as a Professor at the Faculty of Law at Lumsa University in Rome, in 2005, where he lectures on the Protection of Personal data and Fundamental Rights in Italy and Europe. In 1989, he was made a judge at the Tribunal of Avezzano.
He was also appointed to the High Level Policy Panel of the European Project on "Public Perception of Security and Privacy: Assessing Knowledge, Collecting Evidence, Translating Research Into Action - PACT (285635)” by the Peace Institute of Oslo.
Along with 138 other national representatives, he signed the Italian Manifest for a Digital Agenda in 2011. He is also a regular contributor to specialised books and journals, at both the European and national level and is the author of a significant number of papers.
From 1989 to 1997, Buttarelli was an advisor at the Legislation Department of the Italian Ministry of Justice.
He cooperated with various ministers and contributed to drafting and following up many regulatory provisions, in particular concerning criminal law, criminal procedure and data protection. He was also a member of several inter-ministerial committees concerning, among other topics, immigration, racial discrimination, community fraud, de-criminalisation, tax reforms, computer crime laws, access to confidential records and the digitalisation of public administrative agencies.
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