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Elena Kaiser

2023-2024 European Cybersecurity Fellow

Elena Kaiser is the Legal and Policy Advisor of the Luxembourg National Cybersecurity Agency and she is, as such, an expert in the field of cybersecurity and data protection. Combining her personal interests with this expertise, she is also successfully managing several cybersecurity capacity building and gender inclusion projects. Since January 2022, she is part of the Luxembourg delegation for the negotiation of the new UN convention on cybercrime and also represents Luxembourg in various other international and European conferences on topics related to cybersecurity and Internet Governance.

Elena holds a Ph.D. in Public, International and European Law at the University of Milan, carrying out a research on the need to protect the right to privacy with regard to the development of new technologies, in particular surveillance measures by governments. Elena is also a qualified attorney in law, specialising in criminal law, fundamental rights protection and technology related regulations. Elena is fluent in English, German, French and Italian.