Vagelis Papakonstantinou is a Professor on Personal Data Protection Law at the Faculty of Law & Criminology of the Free University of Brussels (VUB, Vrije Universiteit Brussel), focusing also on Cybersecurity, Intellectual Property, and the broader topic of technology regulation. He is the Coordinator of VUB’s Cyber and Data Security Lab (CDSL), a core member of VUB’s Research Group on Law Science Technology & Society (LSTS), and a member of the Brussels Privacy Hub.
In addition to the above, through MPlegal, a niche technology law firm in Brussels and Athens, Vagelis Papakonstantinou practices business law with a particular emphasis on technology start-ups and mid-size companies. To match these interests, he also teaches “Entrepreneurship” at the Executive MBA Programme of the University of the Aegean.
His personal website may be found at https://vpapakonstantinou.com