Okşan Karakuş is a legal officer and head of the Economic Affairs Department at the Hamburg Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information (HmbBfDI). As a fully qualified lawyer and criminologist (MA), she has many years of experience in data protection in the fields of police, domestic intelligence, and the judiciary. In 2018, she worked at the Ministry of the Interior, where she was responsible for the first major digitalization project of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg. Since August 2018, she has been part of the HmbBfDI again and was initially responsible, among other things, for the insurance and credit industry, credit agencies, and commercial services. Since 2020, her main focus has been on employee data protection in both the public and private sectors.