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  • Ms Lokke Moerel
    Member of the Dutch Cyber Security Council
    Cyber expert on the European Commission’s Horizon2020 Innovation Program

ABOUT

Among the world’s best-known privacy & cyber advisers, Lokke Moerel is regularly called upon by some of the world’s most complex multinational organizations to confront their global privacy and ethical challenges when implementing new technologies and digital business models and to assist them with their global cyber security incident response and regulatory investigations. Lokke is also a professor of Global ICT law at Tilburg University (The Netherlands), where she teaches global data protection and new technologies.

BCR. Lokke is widely recognized as the leading global expert on BCR and authored Binding Corporate Rules, Corporate Self-Regulation of Global Data Transfers, published by Oxford University Press in 2012, which is considered the leading textbook on BCR. She is MoFo’s lead counsel on BCR, with unsurpassed experience advising multinational companies in obtaining their BCR approvals throughout the EU. Lokke co-heads the Global Privacy Group (GPG), a working group of chief privacy officers and in-house lawyers at leading European multinationals. The GPG developed a set of Binding Corporate Rules (BCR), which have since received EU-wide approval.