Bio

Gabriela is Vice President for Global Privacy for the Washington DC-based Future of Privacy Forum, where she coordinates the regional offices of FPF in Brussels, Tel Aviv and Singapore and leads the work on Global privacy developments with their impact on all focus areas of FPF, including de-identification, AI, mobility, adtech and education. She is also associated researcher for the LSTS Center of Vrije Universiteit Brussel. Gabriela is a member of the Reference Panel of the Global Privacy Assembly and a member of the Executive Committee of ACM's Fairness, Accountability and Transparency Conference. She has experience in working for the European Data Protection Supervisor in Brussels, dealing with enforcement, litigation and policy matters, and contributed to the work of the Article 29 Working Party. She holds a PhD in law with a thesis on the rights of the data subject from the perspective of their adjudication in civil law, and an LLM in Human Rights. She is the first Romanian author to publish a comprehensive volume on the rights of the data subjects (''Protectia datelor personale. Drepturile persoanei vizate'', C.H. Beck, Bucharest, 2015) and is one of the co-authors of ''GDPR: A commentary'', Oxford University Press, 2020 (Eds. Christopher Kuner, Lee A Bygrave, Christopher Docksey). She published extensively on privacy and data protection in national and international journals and she is often invited to speak at privacy and data protection conferences.