Prof. José-Luis PIÑAR, Ph.D 

Curriculum Vitae 

Professor of Administrative Law. San Pablo-CEU University, Madrid.  

Former Director of the Spanish Data Protection Agency (2002-2007). Former Vice-Chairman of the European Group of Data Protection Commissioners (“Art. 29 Working Party Data Protection”) (2004-2007). Founder (2003) and first President of the Ibero-American Data Protection Network (2003-2007).  

Of Counsel at CMS Albiñana & Suarez de Lezo International Law Firm. 

Director of the International Master’s Degree on Data Protection, Transparency and Access to Information (San Pablo-CEU University). 

President of the Public Law Section of the Spanish General Commission for Codification. (“Comisión General de Codificación”). This Section drafted the Spanish Data Protection Law. 

Author of numerous publications. Among others, he has directed the books Reglamento General de Protección de Datos. Hacia un nuevo modelo europeo de privacidad (2016); Sociedad Digital y Derecho (2018, with Prof. Tomás de la Quadra); Privacidad en un mundo global (2023). Director of Revista Derecho Digital e Innovación-Digital Law and Innovation Review. 

Member of the Experts Group nominated (2020) by the Spanish Government for drafting a Digital Rights Charter.  

Chair of the Board of the South EU Google Data Governance Chair. Visiting Professor at Georgetown University, Università Roma Tre, Università degli Studi di Bologna, Università degli Studi di Firenze, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Universidad de San Andrés de Bogotá. 

Former Vice-Rector of International Relations at San Pablo-CEU University. Former Dean of the Faculties of Law in the Universities of Castilla-La Mancha and San Pablo-CEU. 

Director of the International Research Project on Identidad Digital, Derechos Fundamentales y Neuroderechos (Digital Identity, Fundamental Rights and Neuro-rights), of the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation.