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Dr. Grigoris Lazarakos is a lawyer admitted at the Athens Bar Association since October 1996, entitled to attend cases at Supreme Court (Areios Pagos). Since October 2007, he has been practicing law in cooperation with A. Sarivalassis, Sp. Ghikas and I. Stavropoulos. He served as a substitute Member of the Board of Directors of the Hellenic Data Protection Authority from March 2008 to August 2016.

He has expertise mainly in data protection, public – administrative law, civil law, real estate, commercial law as well as in medical negligence matters.
 
He has a Doctorate in Law from the Humboldt University School of Law, Berlin, Germany. His Doctoral thesis was on “Comparative Analysis within Europe of the Data Protection Privilege of the Press in the context of Multimedia Implementation at the processing of personal data information (Germany, UK, Greece)”. He also has an LLM from Humboltd University School of Law, as well as a Bachelor in Law (Ptychion) from the Athens University, School of Law.

He has published 3 books as well as 24 scientific publications mainly in the field of data protection and public – administrative law. He has also participated as a Lecturer in more than (twenty) 20 scientific conferences in similar fields.

He lectured for six (6) academic semesters “Business and Communication Law” at Athens University of Economics and Business, Department of Marketing and Communication and for two (2) academic semesters “Constitutional Law” at University of Peloponese, Department of Political Science and International Relations. He speaks fluently German and English.

He has been appointed as the Head of the Minister’s Office (Ministry of Interior) from 3/2004 to 9/2007. He also served in the Greek Parliament as a scientific Consultant of the MP and Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs from 9/2007 to 3/2008, being responsible for European matters relating to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the parliamentary work of the Minister.

He has worked as a lawyer in the Law Office “TREMPEL, ROUKA, DAUBAS & MULLER” in Berlin, Germany, from 4/1997 to 11/1999 and in the “Law Office GAST”, in Berlin, Germany, from 9/2001 to 7/2002.