Koen Hostyn

Act as the Data Protection Officer for the Flemish Agency on Climate and Energy (VEKA), as well as the Agency for higher education, adult education, qualifications and study grants (AHOVOKS) Inform and advise the controller on planned processing activities, including the use of public cloud services for large-scale data platform projects Monitor compliance with the Regulation, including the assignment of responsibilities, awareness-raising, and training of staff, and related audits.

Privacy consultant and Data Protection Officer for multiple organizations in the government, health, tech, political, legal, and non-profit sectors. Focus on GDPR-audits, as well as Data Protection Impact Assessments (DPIA), Legitimate Interest Assessments (LIAs), Data Transfer Impact Assessments (DTIA), Data Subject Access Requests (DSAR), handling personal data breaches, and working with Data Protection Authorities (DPA). Multiple clients in Belgium, France, the Netherlands, and the United States.

Providing advice to the party president, including on matters in relation to the protection of personal data (eg. processing personal data during electoral campaigns).

Providing advice to elected members of parliament on social and economic affairs, including the protection of personal data.

A staff member for University Management at the Rector's conference of the University of the Flemish Community.

Student representative in the University Board, as well as the university-wide budgeting and ICT committees.