Evanthia (Evi) Chatziliasi

Evi Chatziliasi works for the European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS), where she serves as Head of the Sector responsible for supervising the EU agencies operating in the area of Freedom, Security and Justice, a position she has held since April 2024. She has been part of the EDPS Supervision & Enforcement Unit since September 2020. Evi grew up and studied in Thessaloniki, Greece. She holds an LL.M. from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Before joining the EDPS, she practised law in Greece for four years. She then became a legal auditor at the Hellenic Data Protection Authority, a role she held for 12 years. During that time, she served as coordinator of the Legal Office, focusing on public administration, national defence, law enforcement and public order. She first joined the EDPS Supervision & Enforcement Unit in 2018. In 2019, she was appointed Data Protection Officer of the European Central Bank and moved to Frankfurt, where she worked until 2020, when she returned to the EDPS.

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The European Data Protection Supervisor is an independent supervisory authority, with responsibility for monitoring the processing of personal data by the EU institutions and bodies, advising on policies and legislation that affect privacy and cooperating with similar authorities at national level. The EDPS remit includes: • developing and communicating an overall vision, thinking in global terms and proposing concrete recommendations; • providing policy guidance to meet new challenges in the area of data protection; • operating at the highest levels and developing effective relationships with diverse stakeholders in other EU institutions, Member States, non EU countries and other national or international organisations. Under the AI Act (Regulation (EU) 2024/1689), the European Data Protection Supervisor is now the Market surveillance authority for EUIs’ AI systems and a notified body for high-risk AI assessments