Paolo Balboni
Professor of Privacy, Cybersecurity, and IT Contract Law, Maastricht University
Paolo Balboni is a Professor of Privacy, Cybersecurity, and IT Contract Law at the European Centre on Privacy and Cybersecurity (ECPC) within the Maastricht University Faculty of Law. His research focus is data protection as a corporate social responsibility, which can be used to help organisations responsibly further their economic targets and at the same time positively contribute to the development of a fair data-centric society. He is also a Founding Partner of ICT Legal Consulting (ICTLC), an international law firm, and ICT Cyber Consulting, a company specialised in information/data security. He is the Chairman of the European Patent Office (EPO) data protection board, a member of the EUMETSAT data protection supervisory authority, a member of the europrivacy board of experts, and member of the European eommission’s expert group on B2B data sharing and cloud computing contracts. Balboni is a qualified lawyer specialised in ICT, privacy & cybersecurity, he was admitted to the Milan Bar and registered to the Amsterdam Bar. He is a recommended lawyer ranked by The Legal 500 EMEA 2023 in the areas of Data Privacy and Data Protection and Industry Focus: TMT. Lead Auditor BS ISO/IEC 27001:2013.
