Dr Nora Ni Loideain is Director of the Information Law & Policy Centre, and Associate Professor in Law, at the University of London’s Institute of Advanced Legal Studies. Her research focuses on EU law, European human rights law, and technology regulation, particularly within the contexts of privacy and data protection. 

She has published on topics including AI Digital Assistants, police use of facial recognition, surveillance and national security, and cross border data transfers. Her book on privacy and data protection rights and data retention law in the EU and ECHR legal orders is the first doctrinal and comparative analysis of these standards in the context of serious crime and national security: Ni Loideain, EU Data Privacy Law and Serious Crime (OUP 2025). 

Nora is joint Editor-in-Chief of the leading law journal International Data Privacy Law (OUP). In 2019, she was appointed to the UK Home Office Biometrics and Forensics Ethics Group (BFEG) which provides independent expert advice on the ethics and law underpinning biometrics policy development for public security and policing. In 2024, she co-authored a report on ‘The Future of Biometric Technology in Policing and Law Enforcement’ published by the Alan Turing Institute. 

Prior to her academic career, Nora was a Legal and Policy Officer for the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions of Ireland and clerked for the Irish Supreme Court. She holds BA, LLB, LLM (Public Law) degrees from the National University of Ireland, Galway, and a PhD in law from the University of Cambridge.

Christopher Docksey is a Member of the Advisory Board of the Maastricht European Centre on Privacy and Cybersecurity, the Chair of the Legal Advisory Panel of the Guernsey Data Protection Authority and a principal Editor of the OUP Commentary on the GDPR. He was the Commission Legal Adviser on data protection before moving to direct the Office of the EDPS, where he was appointed as Honorary Director-General.

Since 1 January 2024, Laura is an Assistant Professorat KU Leuven for data law as well as a researcher for the Belgian State Archives as part of a FED-tWIN project, via which she is studying the intersection of EU data protection law with EU data law from a human rights perspective.

Niovi Vavoula is an Associate Professor and Chair in Cyber Policy at the Faculty of Law, Economics and Finance of the University of Luxembourg. Prior to her appointment she was Senior Lecturer at Queen Mary University of London, where she completed her postgraduate and doctoral studies. Her research focuses on the legal challenges, particularly regarding fundamental rights and the rule of law, posed by the regulation of new technologies, such as AI and cybersecurity, such as law enforcement, criminal law and migration management.