Caroline Goemans-Dorny retired since April 2025 and served as INTERPOL Data Protection Officer (IDPO) and Head of the Data Protection Office from January  2016 till March 2025. Prior to her appointment as IDPO, Caroline worked as Senior Advisor at INTERPOL’s 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 scientific researcher at the Interdisciplinary Centre for Law and IT, University of Leuven, Belgium.