Maria Avramidou
About:
Maria is a dynamic & client-oriented young professional with three years of professional experience on privacy, personal data protection, Artificial Intelligence, data and cybersecurity law and policy. Maria is a Bluebook Trainee on international data protection at DG JUST. She has worked as a Data Flows Fellow at a global startup association, Legal Researcher at CiTiP of KU Leuven, AI policy research associate at ALLAI and as a trainee lawyer. She is a Qualified Lawyer in Greece and Cyprus.
languages
Greek, English
Expertise:
Experience:
European Commission (EC)
Blue Book Trainee at European Commission (EC)
4 mth • March 2023 - July 2023 • Brussels, Belgium
- Researching and attending meetings in the framework of adequacy decisions for international personal data transfers (e.g. EU-US Data Privacy Framework, Japan, Switzerland) and other agreements (e.g. EU-US e-Evidence agreement) - Assisting on data protection and Law Enforcement and Judicial Cooperation aspects of the post Brexit relations with the UK, including the UK GDPR reform - Researching and analyzing the data protection laws and policies of third and associated countries that are developing or modernizing their data protection frameworks (e.g. Switzerland, Serbia, North Macedonia, Georgia, Mauritius, US, Japan, Australia, Kenya, Brazil) - Assisting in ensuring compliance of the EU’s external policies (e.g. trade agreements, accession and neighborhood policies; cooperation arrangements between regulatory authorities at international level) with data protection requirements - Participating in meetings with institutional stakeholders (Council, European Parliament, European Data Protection Board)Education:
KU Leuven, Faculty of Law
2020 - 2021
Advanced LL.M (ManaMa) on Intellectual Property and Information and Communication Technologies Law Thesis (supervisor Prof. Dr. Patrick van Eecke): The future of international personal data transfers from EEA to the United States in the aftermath of Schrems II, a catch 22?
Tilburg University, Faculty of Law
2019 - 2020
LL.M in Law and Technology Thesis (supervisors Dr. Anna Berti Suman & Prof. Dr. Leonie Reins): The admissibility of citizen-sensed data in climate change litigation in the state of Michigan and the jurisdiction of England and Wales
Maastricht University, Faculty of Law
2017 - 2017
Erasmus Program (International Business Law, Law & Art: the free movement of cultural property)
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH), Faculty of Law
2013 - 2018
LL.B (Ptychio Nomikis), GPA 8.26 Top 5% of the class of 2018| Ranked 22nd/471 graduates Completed successfully 50 modules in the areas of Public Law, Civil Law, Criminal Law, Commercial Law, History and Philosophy of law, European and International Law in substantive and procedural aspects