Evangelos Zarkadoulas is a Senior Officer of the Hellenic Police specializing in the investigation of serious and organized crime, having served, inter alia, in the Homicide Department of the Attica Security Directorate.
In recent years, he has held the position of Justice and Home Affairs Counsellor at the Permanent Representation of Greece to the European Union, where he acts as a liaison between the Hellenic Police and the European institutions on matters of internal security, police cooperation, and information exchange.
He represents Greece in working groups of the European Commission and the European Artificial Intelligence Board that address the use of artificial intelligence in law enforcement and its regulation within the EU institutional framework.
Academically, he is a PhD candidate in Law and a researcher at the Cyber and Data Security Lab of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), focusing his research on the proportionate and responsible use of artificial intelligence by law enforcement authorities in the European Union.