Daniel

Drewer

Europol (EU)

Daniel Drewer is Data Protection Officer and Head of the Data Protection Function at Europol. He holds a Master of Law from the University of Hamburg. Prior to starting his further professional training at the Hanseatic Court in Hamburg, he worked as a contract lawyer for a media group in Hamburg. Daniel Drewer joined the Legal Service at Europol in 2003. He went on to become Confidentiality Officer with responsibilities in the area of data security, security clearances, handling of classified information and he was appointed Secretary to the Europol Security Committee. In 2007 he was selected as Head of Unit, responsible for data protection and data security compliance (Information Integrity). In 2010 the Management Board appointed Daniel Drewer as Europol’s first Data Protection Officer. In 2015 he founded the Europol Data Protection Experts Network (EDEN). The EDEN community consist of more than 800 active members from law enforcement, industries, academia and non-governmental organisations. He chairs the annual EDEN conferences. Daniel Drewer contributes regularly as speaker to international data protection conferences. He is lecturer to the Certification Course for Data Protection Officers at the European Institute for Public Administration (EIPA) and speaker at seminars on criminal and data protection law at the Academy for European Law (ERA). Since 2021 he is member of the CEPOL Expert Group on Fundamental Rights.