Louisa Specht-Riemenschneider
Professor Dr. Louisa Specht-Riemenschneider has been the Federal Data Protection Commissioner for five years. She owes everything she has become to the University of Bonn, says the professor from the Faculty of Law and Political Science. For “We Are Uni Bonn" she gave an exclusive interview.
Strategic, Digital, and Secure
Prof. Dr. Louisa Specht-Riemenschneider had just presented a digital strategy for Germany to the then federal government when, shortly afterwards, the transdisciplinary “Center for Medical Data Usability and Translation” (ZMDT) at the University of Bonn and the University Hospital Bonn (UKB) was about to take place, before she was appointed Federal Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information in May 2024.
Prof. Dr. Louisa Specht-Riemenschneider, Bundesdatenschutzbeauftragte
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Implementing data protection is not a legislative mandate
The legal scholar sees herself “...not as a politician, not as a legislator, and not as a judge, but as part of the executive branch.” The Federal Data Protection Commissioner is "well prepared for her task thanks to her work as a university lecturer, as a researcher in a transdisciplinary environment, and as a manager.