Caroline Goemans-Dorny is the INTERPOL Data Protection Officer (IDPO) and Head of the Data Protection Office. The mandate of the IDPO encapsulates the usual tasks of a data protection officer as well as liaising, collaborating and ensuring coordination with the DPOs mandatorily appointed in each contact point of INTERPOL’s 195 member countries (National Central Bureaus - NCBs)

Prior to her appointment as IDPO, Caroline worked as senior advisor at the Office of Legal Affairs and coordinated - among others - INTERPOL’s participation in a number EU funded research projects addressing the need for LEA to use new technologies while observing privacy and data protection rights.

Before joining INTERPOL, Caroline successively practised as a lawyer at the Bar of Antwerp in Belgium, served as Secretary General of the Council of the Bars and Law Societies of Europe (CCBE) and worked as a scientific researcher at the Interdisciplinary Center for Law and IT, Law Faculty, KULeuven, Belgium.