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Grigoris Lazarakos is an attorney at law entitled to attend cases before the Supreme Court (Areios Pagos). He has been a member of the Athens Bar Association since 1996. Since July 2018 he is the founder and managing partner of L & L Law Firm which specializes in various fields of law with a particular emphasis on Data Protection Law and Administrative/Public Law (https://www.l-l.law). In February 2020 his data protection team assumed the role of DPO at the Hellenic Parliament.

He served as a substitute Member of the Board of Directors of the Hellenic Data Protection Authority (DPA) from March 2008 to August 2016. Since August 2017 Grigoris is a certified legal expert (CEPE L PS) at European Privacy Seal GmbH (located in Bonn/Germany) for the evaluation of IT products and IT-based services according to the new legal requirements that are introduced by the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

Grigoris has a Doctorate in data protection law as well as an LLM from the University of Humboldt, School of Law, Berlin, Germany, and a Bachelor in Law (Ptychion) from the University of Athens, School of Law. He has published 3 books as well as 38 scientific publications mainly in the field of data protection with an emphasis on new technologies and public – administrative law. Grigoris has also lectured Constitutional Law at the University of Peloponnese and the Hellenic Military Academy, as well as Business and Communication Law at Athens University of Economics and Business.