Waltraut Kotschy is Austrian expert in data protection. She is the Chairwoman of Austrian Data Protection Commission and she represent Austria in Working Group on Article 29 on data protection in the European Council. She graduated in law at the University of Vienna and economics at the University of Economics in Vienna. In 1970s she works as assistant professor at the university's Public Law Institute and participated in different projects of Austrian Federal Chancellery aimed at using of IT in management of knowledge. In the late 1970s she started to specialised on data protection. In 1980 she became the leading member of Data Protection Commission. From 1981 to 1984 she was appointed a high-ranked state official in Data …

In present time he works at the Office for Personal Data Protection of the Slovak Republic, Department for International Law and Foreign Affairs, he represents the Office in European Commission´s  Article 29 Working Party on Data Protection , International Working Group for Data Protection in Telecommunications.  In the years 1993 – 2004 Mr. Valentovič worked in Slovak Telecom a.s. (ST),  where he represented ST in international organisations  ETNO, ETIS, Eurescom, FIINA , Y2K – CEEC. Among other activities in the Unit of President -Security Section – Department for Security Policies& Customer Assistance, he was an expert for security policy development, head of the Corporate Security Training Team, Project Manager of the Security Awaren…