Xenofon Kontargyris is a lawyer specializing in data protection and IT law, particularly in cybersecurity and IT outsourcing. He holds a PhD from the Faculty of Law of the University of Hamburg (UHH) for writing a doctoral thesis on “IT Laws in the Era of Cloud-Computing; A Comparative Analysis between EU and US Law on the Case Study of Data Protection and Privacy” (2018, NOMOS Verlag). Xenofon is also a CIPP/E certified member of the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP).