Dr. Dix, LL.M. (Lond.) is Vice-Chair of the European Academy for Freedom of Information and Data Protection in Berlin. He has more than 30 years practical experience in Data Protection and Freedom of Information. From 1998 to 2005 he was Commissioner for Data Protection and Access to Information in Brandenburg. He was then elected as Berlin Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information, a post which he held until January 2016. From 2005 to 2015 he chaired the International Working Group on Data Protection in Telecommunications (also known as “Berlin Group”) and represented the German Länder in the Art. 29 Working Party of European Data Protection Authorities. Currently he is a member of the Privacy Advisory Group in the UN Global Pulse Project. Dr. Dix has published extensively on transborder data flows, privacy in global networks and freedom of information. He is co-editor of the Jahrbuch für Informationsfreiheit und Informationsrecht and member of the Editorial Board of the European Data Protection Law Review