Gwendal LE GRAND
| Director of technologies and innovation, French Data Protection Authority |
Dr. Gwendal Le Grand is the Director of technology and innovation at the French data protection authority CNIL (Commission Nationale de l’Informatique et des Libertés), where he supervises the IT experts department, the IT operations department, the innovation and foresight unit, and LINC (the CNIL labs).
He is the coordinator of the Technology Subgroup of the European data protection board (EDPB) and contributed actively to the preparatory work related to the GDPR. He is the liaison officer for the EDPB to ISO/IEC JTC1/SC27/WG5 which develops privacy standards at ISO, and is a member of the Permanent Stakeholders Group of ENISA (EU Agency for Network and Information Security).
Before joining the CNIL, he worked as an associate professor at Telecom Paristech, Paris, between 2001 and 2007. Gwendal Le Grand received his PhD in computer science from the University of Paris 6 in July 2001. He received his MS degree from Telecom Paristech in 1998 and graduated as an engineer from Telecom SudParis in 1997.
