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Vanessa Kinder

Lawyer

    Vanessa Kinder

    Lawyer
    Lawyer
    Vanessa Kinder
    Professional activities
    • Employed lawyer
    • Admitted to the bar in 2024
    • Certified Data Protection Officer
    • Advises various clients in the private and public sectors with a focus on the following areas: health data protection, church data protection, customer data protection, employee data protection, social data protection, data protection and AI, corporate data protection, financial and banking data protection
    • Previously worked as a management consultant in the field of cyber security & privacy at a global auditing and consulting firm
    • Previously worked for the Federal Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information, in the data protection department of a large international law firm, and in the legal department of a global pharmaceutical and chemical company in the area of data privacy functional governance
    • Many years of experience as a research assistant at a national commercial law firm and a boutique law firm specializing in data protection law and IT law
    • Co-author of a commentary on IT law in the field of eHealth/digitalization in healthcare
    • Lecturer in the field of data protection and digitization
    Lawyer
    Education
    • Studied law at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn
    • University focus on data protection law, intellectual property law, antitrust law, and law and economics
    • Legal clerkship at the Higher Regional Court of Cologne with placements in Bonn, Cologne, and Leverkusen
    Foreign Languages
    • Englisch
    • Französisch
    • Spanisch
    • Polnisch

    Certifications

    ● Certificate in IP/IT/Media Law (University of Bonn)
    ● Certified Data Protection Officer (PwC Cert.)
    ● Certified IT Basic Protection Practitioner (PwC Cert.)

    Memberships