Chiara Rustici

Chiara Rustici is an independent academic, data regulation analyst and Data Protection Officer as-a-service.
Having held research and teaching posts in Jurisprudence at the Universities of Genoa, Milan and Edinburgh, and having served as Chair of the Law Specialists Group at BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT, and as part of the BCS governance team, Dott. Rustici is currently guest lecturer on IT Law for Computer Science undergraduates at City, The University of London.
She sits on the editorial board of the Journals Frontiers in Blockchain and Journal of Data Protection and Privacy.
She has published extensively on legal reasoning for Computer Law Review International, Bloomberg, O’Reilly, Ragion Pratica, and Contemporary Political Theory. More recently, Dott. Rustici has delivered keynotes at numerous international conferences on how businesses should prepare for the GDPR. Dott. Rustici’s interviews on the impact of the GDPR on specific sectors have appeared in The Times, The Guardian, The Lancet, A.M. Best Newswire, and IT Now. In 2019 she was recognised by her peers in the inaugural DPO200 list compiled by the Swiss-based GDPR Institut as one of the “individuals who have made significant contributions to the privacy and security sectors”. The awarding body considered several factors in compiling this list, including, social media impact, knowledge sharing and community support