Marit Hansen
Institution
Office of the Data Protection Commissioner Schleswig-Holstein
Position
Data Protection Commissioner
Country
Germany
Information
Since 2015 Marit Hansen is the State Data Protection Commissioner of Land Schleswig-Holstein and Chief of Unabhängiges Landeszentrum für Datenschutz (ULD). Before being appointed Data Protection Commissioner, she has been Deputy Commissioner for seven years. Within ULD she established the “Privacy Technology Projects” Division and the “Innovation Centre Privacy & Security”. Since her diploma in computer science in 1995 she has been working on privacy and security aspects. Her focus is on “data protection by design” and “data protection by default” from both the technical and the legal perspectives. In April 2020, Karlstad University, Sweden, awarded Marit Hansen an honorary doctorate for her contribution on data protection by design.
