Gloria González Fuster

Director

Gloria.Gonzalez.Fuster@vub.be

Biography

Prof. Dr. Gloria González Fuster (Barcelona, 1975) is a Research Professor at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB)’s Faculty of Law and Criminology, and Director of the Law, Science, Technology and Society (LSTS) Research Group. She holds a BOF research position on the theme ‘Digitalisation & a Europe of rights and freedoms’, and teaches ‘Privacy and data protection law‘ and ‘Bruxelles: La ville et le droit’. Additionally, she lectures on data protection law at the LL.M. in European and Transnational Law of Intellectual Property and Information Technology of Georg-August-Universität Göttingen. She is also a Professorial Fellow at the United Nations University – Institute on Comparative Regional Integration Studies (UNU-CRIS).

She is member of the Academic Board of the AI for the Common Good – Brussels Institute (FARI), and teaches ‘Governance and Organisational Aspects of Artificial Intelligence (AI)’ at the FARI Postgraduate ‘AI for the Common Good: AI for Sustainable & Responsible Innovation’. She is also a member of the EUTOPIA interdisciplinary Learning Community ‘Fairness, Accountability, Transparency, and Ethics in Data Processing’ (FATE).

She is the Principal Investigator of the project Articulating Law, Technology, Ethics and Politics: Issues of Enforcement and Jurisdiction of EU Data Protection Law under and beyond the General Data Protection Regulation (ALTEP-DP), and one of the Principal Investigators of the Brussels Centre for Urban Studies (BCUS). González Fuster is a Board member at the Brussels School of Governance (BSoG), member of the Program and Planning Committee of the Privacy Law Scholars Conference (PLSC), member of the Content Committee of the Privacy Camp, and member of the Steering Committee of the Data Protection Law Scholars Network (DPSN).

She is Associate Editor at the European Data Protection Law Review (EDPL), Lexxion, and Member of the Board of Editors of the Information, Technology and Law Series, Asser Press, Springer. Since 2017, she is a member of the European Commission’s Multistakeholder Expert Group to support the application of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

González Fuster studied Law at the Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED), Journalism at the Faculty of Communication Sciences of the Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona (UAB) (including a stay at the Université Paris 8) and Modern Languages and Literatures at the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB). She has worked at the European Commission’s Citizenship Unit of the Education and Culture Directorate-General (DG EAC), and at the Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA).

Location

C406

Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Pleinlaan 2
1050 Brussels
Belgium