Romain Robert is member of the litigation chamber of Belgium’s Supervisory Authority. He worked in various Brussels law firms between 2002 and 2011. Between 2007 and 2011, he was also a researcher at the Research Centre in Law and Society at the University of Namur. In 2011, he joined Belgium’s Supervisory Authority as a legal advisor. He worked as legal officer at the Policy and Consultation Unit of the European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) as of 2015 and joined the Secretariat of the European Data Protection Board (EDPB) in May 2018. In April 2020, Romain joined NOYB - an NGO conducting strategic litigation to enforce digital rights - where he was Program Director until July 2023.

References:

• Romain Robert on LinkedIn
• EDPS Opinion on the Proposal for a Directive on certain aspects concerning contracts for the supply of digital content
• Sergio Maldonado, How the Digital Content Directive will break the GDPR
• NOYB
• Robert Bateman: Consent or Pay
• EDPB Guidelines 05/2020 on consent
• Giovanni Buttarelli (former EDPS), “Privacy 2030: A Vision for Europe” (IAPP)