Peter Johan Hustinx (born 1945) is a Dutch lawyer who served as

European Data Protection Supervisor The European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) is an independent supervisory authority whose primary objective is to monitor and ensure that European institutions and bodies respect the right to privacy and data protection when they process per ...

(

EDPS The European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) is an independent supervisory authority whose primary objective is to monitor and ensure that European institutions and bodies respect the right to privacy and data protection when they process pers ...

) from January 2004 – 2014.

Biography

Legal career

He trained at

University of Nijmegen Radboud University (abbreviated as RU, nl, Radboud Universiteit , formerly ''Katholieke Universiteit Nijmegen'') is a public research university located in Nijmegen, the Netherlands. The university bears the name of Saint Radboud, a 9th century ...

graduating in LLM in 1970, with further work at

University of Michigan Law School The University of Michigan Law School (Michigan Law) is the law school of the University of Michigan, a Public university, public research university in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Founded in 1859, the school offers Master of Laws (LLM), Master of C ...

. From 1971 to 1991 he worked at the Dutch Ministry of Justice in constitutional and criminal law and preparing legislation. He was general council of the public law division Dutch Ministry of Justice from 1979 to 1991. In 1986 he became a Deputy judge at the Amsterdam Court of Appeal. He chaired the appeals committee of Europol's supervisory body from 1998 to 2001 and was Chair of the commission for the control of

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's files from 2002 to 2009.

Data Protection

He started working on Data Protection as Deputy secretary-general from 1972-1976 of the Royal Commission on Privacy and Personal Data (Koopmans Commission) He was a member of the 1981 Convention on Data Protection as part of his work from 1976 to 1991 Expert committee on Data Protection of the

Council of Europe The Council of Europe (CoE; french: Conseil de l'Europe, ) is an international organisation founded in the wake of World War II to uphold European Convention on Human Rights, human rights, democracy and the Law in Europe, rule of law in Europe. ...

, and chaired this committee from 1985 to 1988. He was President of the

Dutch Data Protection Authority The Dutch Data Protection Authority ( nl, Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens, AP) is the data protection authority for the Netherlands and an independent administrative body that has been appointed by law as the supervisory authority for the processin ...

from 1991 to 2003, being reappointed twice in 1997 and 2001. The chaired the EU Article 29 Data Protection working party from 1996 to 2000. He was

(

) from January 2004 to December 2014.

Legacy

In an IAAP article on his legacy Dutch MEP Sophie in ‘t Veld was quoted “When he took office, data protection was a minor issue. Now, it’s on top of the political agenda. So on his watch, the whole issue has changed dramatically.” In the same article Hogan Lovells’ Christopher Wolf described the

as the “leading EU pundit on privacy and data security”

External links

EDPS Website

Articles on Peter Hustinx

References

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