Dr. Christof Tschohl is the scientific director and partner of the Research Institute - Digital Human Rights Centre. After graduating from the HTL for communications engineering and several years of technical work experience, he studied law at the University of Vienna and completed his doctorate on the topics of data protection, IT security, telecommunications, criminal law and "Privacy by Design". After 5 years at the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute of Human Rights and a post doc position at the University of Vienna, he started his own business in 2012. He is a board member of the data protection NGO "noyb", a working group leader in the Austrian Computer Society (OCG) and a member of the Fundamental Rights Section of the Austrian Association of Judges. He is also a member of the CERT Advisory Board of the Republic of Austria as well as a board member of the Austrian Computer Society (OCG) and co-leader of the OCG Forum Privacy.