Grigoris Lazarakos

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Grigoris Lazarakos

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Managing Partner
L&L Law Firm

Grigoris was admitted to the Athens Bar Association in October 1996 and is the Managing Partner of L&L Law Firm, which is a Greek boutique law firm with international experience in different areas of law such as, inter alia, in data privacy, cybersecurity, public and commercial law.
He has previously served as a substitute Member of the Board of Directors of the Hellenic Data Protection Authority (HDPA) from March 2008 to August 2016. During his term at the HDPA, he was the Rapporteur in more than 250 cases and supervised, among others, the Department which handles new technology matters, such as biometric methods and identification technology, cybersecurity and profiling activities through automated systems.
Following the end of his term with the HDPA, Grigoris and his team have been providing data protection and cybersecurity compliance support and advice to a number of Greek and international entities. In addition, since February 2020 he has served as DPO of the Hellenic Parliament.
In August 2017 Grigoris became the first Greek legal expert (CEPE L PS) at European Privacy Seal GmbH (EuroPriSe) (located in Bonn/Germany) for the evaluation of IT products and IT-based services according to the new legal requirements that are introduced by the GDPR.
Grigoris has a Doctorate in data protection law as well as an LLM from the Humboldt University School of Law, Berlin, Germany, and a Bachelor in Law (Ptychion) from the Athens University, School of Law. He has published 3 books as well as over 45 scientific publications mainly in the field of data protection, cybersecurity and public – administrative law. He has also lectured at the Athens University of Economics and Business, the University of Peloponnese and the Hellenic Military Academy.