Prof. Dr. Louisa Specht-Riemenschneider
The biography of the Federal Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information
Prof. Dr. Louisa Specht-Riemenschneider has been Federal Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information since September 2024. She previously held the chair for Civil Law, Data Economy Law, Data Protection, Digitization and Artificial Intelligence at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn.
She studied law in Bremen, completed her doctorate and habilitation in Freiburg and subsequently held professorships in Cologne and Passau. As director, she headed both the Institute for Commercial and Business Law of the Faculty of Law and Political Science and the Center for Medical Data Usability and Translation (ZMDT). She also oversaw the establishment of the Data Institute under the leadership of the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Protection (BMWK) and the Federal Ministry of the Interior and Home Affairs (BMI).