Paolo Balboni (Ph.D.) is a top tier European lawyer specialized in Privacy, ESG, Data Sharing, AI, ICT and Cybersecurity law. He serves as Data Protection Officer (DPO) for multinational companies.

He is a qualified lawyer admitted to the Milan Bar and the Amsterdam Bar and is a Founding Partner of ICT Legal Consulting (ICTLC), an international law firm with offices in Milan, Rome, Bologna, Amsterdam, Athens, Gothenburg, Helsinki, Madrid, Paris, Lagos, Melbourne, Nairobi and Riyadh, and partner law firms in more than 50 countries around the world. He is a Founder of ICT Cyber Consulting, a company specialized in information/data security.

Paolo is also Professor of Privacy, Cybersecurity, and IT Contract Law at the European Centre on Privacy and Cybersecurity (ECPC) within the Maastricht University Faculty of Law. Chairman of the European Patent Office (EPO) Data Protection Board, Member of the EUMETSAT Data Protection Supervisory Authority, Member of the Europrivacy Board of Experts, Member of the European Commission’s Expert Group on B2B data sharing and cloud computing contracts, Member of the Cloud Security Alliance’s AI Safety Expert Group, and Member of the General-purpose AI Code of Practice Plenary.

Paolo is Co-Chair of the Cloud Security Alliance Privacy Level Agreement (PLA). Recommended Lawyer ranked by The Legal 500 EMEA 2024 in the areas of Data Privacy and Data Protection and Industry Focus: TMT.