Dr Nora Ni Loideain is Director of the Information Law & Policy Centre, and Senior Lecturer 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.