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. He was born on 13 June 1971 in

Łęczyca Łęczyca (; in full the Royal Town of Łęczyca, pl, Królewskie Miasto Łęczyca; german: Lentschitza; he, לונטשיץ) is a town of 13,786 inhabitants () in central Poland. Situated in the Łódź Voivodeship, it is the county seat of the ...

, Central

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. In 1995 he graduated from Faculty of Law in University of Gdańsk. He obtained his PhD in law in 2000. In 2006 he entered public service, being appointed as an IT advisor to

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, at the time the Minister of Interior and Administration in Poland. In 2008 he took the seat of the chief information officer in this ministry. On 25 June 2010 he was appointed as the National Data Protection Inspector in Poland. He was holding that position until 2014, when he became the Assistant General Inspector in the office of

, at that time

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. When he died, Dr Wiewiórowski was appointed as in-charge. Then in November 2019 he was recommended by the

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to take the seat of the Inspector. He took the office on 6 December 2019. His research interests include

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as well as

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protection. He lives in

Brussels Brussels (french: Bruxelles or ; nl, Brussel ), officially the Brussels-Capital Region (All text and all but one graphic show the English name as Brussels-Capital Region.) (french: link=no, Région de Bruxelles-Capitale; nl, link=no, Bruss ...

with his wife and two daughters.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Wiewiorowski, Wojciech 1971 births Living people University of Gdańsk alumni Polish lawyers People from Łęczyca Polish legal scholars