Katarzyna Szymielewicz

Lawyer specialised in human rights and technology. Co-founder and president of Panoptykon Foundation – a Polish NGO defending human rights in the context of surveillance. Advisor to European Digital Rights (Brussels office). From 2011 to 2016 member of the Council for Digitisation in Poland, a statutory body advising the government. Since 2015 member of Ashoka – international network of social entrepreneurs.

In 2019 came up with the "New Deal on Data" concept for a more sustainable, human-centered digital ecosystem: https://medium.com/swlh/a-new-deal-for-data-1c6d7c850e25?source=friends_link&sk=007a87789795e2c776d40c58746c8589

Contributed as a speaker to Computers, Privacy and Data Protection (Brussels), re:publica (Berlin), Chaos Communication Congress (Hamburg), Fundamental Rights Agency Forum (Vienna), TEDx (Warsaw) and and many other international events. Published in the Guardian, Polityka, Gazeta Wyborcza, Dziennik Gazeta Prawna and other titles.