
Prof Lilian Mitrou
Department of Information and Communication Systems Engineering, University of the Aegean
Lilian Mitrou is Professor at the University of the Aegean-Greece
(Department of Information and Communication Systems Engineering)
teaching Data Protection and Information Law. L. Mitrou studied law in
Athens and holds a PhD in Data Protection (Supervisor Spiros Simitis
-University of Frankfurt-Germany). She is Visiting Professor at the
Athens University of Economics and Business (Postgraduate Studies
Programs: Information Systems Security/ Data Science/ Business
Analytics/ Digital Methods for Humanities) and at the University of
Piraeus (Postgraduate Studies Programs: Law and ICT Technologies/
Cybersecurity and AI Technology). She is President of the Institute
for Privacy Law, Data Protection and Technology (IPL), established by
the European Public Law Organization ( www.eplo.int) and Editor in
Chief of “Technology and Communication Law Journal”. She was Advisor
to the Greek Prime Minister K. Simitis (Information Society, Public
Administration/ Institutions, Independent Administrative/Supervisory
Authorities – 1996-2004). From 1999 to 2003 she was Member of the
Hellenic Data Protection Authority and from 2016 to 2023 Member of the
Greek National Council for Radio and Television (NCRTV). She was/is
Member/Chair of many Committees working on law proposals in the
fields of privacy and data protection, communications law,
e-government, digital governance, artificial intelligence etc. Her
professional experience includes senior consulting and researcher
positions in a number of private and public institutions and projects
on national and international level. L. Mitrou has published books,
chapters in books and many journal and conference papers (in English,
German and Greek) with focus on privacy, data protection law and legal
and ethical issues of Artificial Intelligence.