Christian Wiese Svanberg

Intro

Christian Wiese Svanberg advises companies and authorities on data protection law and NIS2. With 20 years of experience in the field, including employment in the Danish Data Protection Agency and the Ministry of Justice, he has deep insight into GDPR. He has also been DPO for the Danish Police and Head of the Danish National Police's Center for Data Protection. As General Counsel at the Danish Defense Intelligence Service (FE), he was responsible for legal tasks related to Offensive Cyber, SIGINT and cyber security (CFCS). He assists clients in particularly sensitive cases, including advanced hacker attacks. His strength lies in finding business-oriented solutions at the intersection of law and IT.

Specialties

Compliance

GDPR

NIS2

DPO

Cybersecurity

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Experience

Lawyer, CO:PLAY, 2024 -
External Lecturer in European Data Protection Law/EU Law, University of Copenhagen, Faculty of Law, 2010
General Councel, Danish Defence Intelligence Service, 2021-2024
Head of the Center for Data Protection and DPO, Danish National Police, 2016-2021
Board Member, IAPP European Board of Advisors, 2014-2019.
Attorney-at-law, Plesner, 2014-2016
Chief Consultant, Danish Agency for Digital Government 2012-2014
Head of Section, The Danish Ministry of Justice 2005-2012
Head of Section, The Danish Data Protection Agency

Education

Master of Laws (LL.M), University of Pennsylvania Law School, USA, 2008
Master of Laws (LL.M), University of Copenhagen, 2003
Bachelor in European Law and West European Studies, University of Wolverhampton, UK 1998

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Selected publications

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The EU Law Enforcement Directive (LED), A Commentary, Oxford University Press, 2024, Eleni Kosta and Franziska Boehm (ed.), contributing author (Articles 32-34)

The EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), A Commentary , Oxford University Press 2020, Christopher Kuner, Lee A. Bygrave, Christopher Docksey (ed), and Laura Drechsler (ass. ed.), contributing author (Articles 89-91)

The Proposed Data Protection Regulation: The Illusion of Harmonisation, the Private/Public Sector Divide and the Bureaucratic Apparatus, Prof. Peter Blume and Christian Wiese Svanberg, Cambridge Yearbook of European Legal Studies, Volume 15, 2013, pp. 27 - 46, Cambridge University Press

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Volunteer activities

Board member, 2Operate A/S
Deputy chairman and co-founder of the Danish Association for Data Protection law