Paolo Balboni (PhD) is a Professor of Privacy, Cybersecurity, and IT Contract Law at the European Centre on Privacy and Cybersecurity (ECPC) within the Maastricht University Faculty of Law. 
He is also the Chairman of the European Patent Office (EPO) Data Protection Board and a Member of the EUMETSAT Data Protection Supervisory Authority. 
Paolo Balboni is a top tier European lawyer specialized in Privacy, ESG, Data Sharing, AI, ICT and Cybersecurity law. He is a Founding Partner of ICT Legal Consulting (ICTLC), an international law firm, and ICT Cyber Consulting (ICTCC), a company specialized in information/data security. 
Prof. Dr. Balboni is Member of the European Commission’s Expert Group on B2B data sharing and cloud computing contracts and he has acted as the legal counsel for the European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA) on several projects. He co-chairs the Privacy Level Agreement (PLA) Working Group of Cloud Security Alliance and he is a Member of the Europrivacy Board of Experts.