Prof Dr Louisa Specht-Riemenschneider
Prof Dr Louisa Specht-Riemenschneider has been Federal Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information since September 2024. She previously held the Chair of Civil Law, Data Economy Law, Data Protection, Digitalisation and Artificial Intelligence at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn. She studied law in Bremen, obtained her doctorate and habilitation in Freiburg and subsequently held professorships in Cologne and Passau. As Director, she heads both the Institute for Commercial and Economic Law at the Faculty of Law and Political Science and the Centre for Medical Data Usability and Translation (ZMDT). She was also involved in the founding of the Data Institute under the leadership of the Federal Ministry of Economics and Climate Protection (BMWK) and the Federal Ministry of the Interior and for Homeland (BMI).
