Curriculum vitae

Philipp Eberhard Fischer, a lawyer based in Munich, Germany, completed his Master of Laws (LL.M.) in intellectual property law at the School of Law of Queen Mary University of London and the Technical University Dresden. Along with attending courses in computer-, cyberspace-, e-commerce- and privacy and information law with Professors Hörnle, Walden, Millard and Shemtov, he completed his Master studies dissertation, "Will Privacy Law in the 21st Century Be American, European or International?". Since then, his masterpieces on data privacy law have been published in leading European Journals. Philipp regularly gives presentations in German, English and Spanish at conferences and workshops across Europe.

On 12 February 2024, Philipp successfully defended his Doctoral Thesis entitled "One law to rule them all? Strengthening global legal certainty for transborder flows of personal data" in the Information and Knowledge Society Doctoral Programme (distance mode) at the Open University of Catalonia (UOC) in Barcelona and has been awarded the highest possible grade "excellent cum laude".

After engagements at, inter alia, the Madrid law firm mmm&m, Amazon.de and S-S-H Rechtsanwälte in the Department for Data Protection Services, he worked as a research assistant at the Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property and Competition Law in Munich (MPI) on the CLIP Project and was awarded a scholarship from the German Association for Law and Informatics (DGRI) as well as from the MPI. Philipp founded SuiGeneris Consulting, the predecessor of SuiGenerisData GmbH, in 2005. As Managing Partner at SuiGenerisData GmbH, Philipp managed teams of consulting experts at the interface between laws, informatics and economics. He worked 3 years with EY (Ernst & Young) in Munich as a Manager for Data Protection and Privacy, then took on a position with the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition to finish his Doctoral Thesis (International Doctorate mention) until starting his current position as Senior Manager Privacy at Deutsche Telekom Security GmbH.

Philipp has extensive experience in all aspects of data privacy law. He is an officially certified Data Protection Officer (TÜV Süd & TÜV Rheinland), Data Protection Auditor (TÜV Rheinland) and External Data Protection Officer (BvD). Philipp holds ITIL® Expert and PRINCE2® Practitioner certificates.