Member Directory
Patrick Sensburg is a member of the German Parliament (since 2009) as well as member of the Parliamentary Oversight Panel and the Council of Elders. He is also chairman of the Committee for the Scrutiny of Elections, Immunity and the Rules of Procedure and has been President of the Association of Reservists of the German Armed Forces since 2019. He was Chairman of the European Law Committee from 2009 to 2017 and Chairman of the NSA Inquiry Committee from 2014 until 2017.
Sensburg is also Professor for Public Law and European Law. From 2006 to 2008 he was Professor at the Federal University of Applied Administrative Sciences in the Department Branch of Federal Criminal Police. Since 2008 he is Professor for Public Law and European Law at the University of Applied Sciences for Police and Public Administration in North Rhine-Westphalia (HSPV NRW). Since 2016 he is Visiting Professor at the University of Vienna and at the Bucharest University of Economic Studies (ASE). He is one of the editors of the Journal for Intelligence, Propaganda and Security Studies (JIPSS).
Member of the German Bundestag since October 2013. Deputy chairman of the CDU/CSU parliamentary group responsible for the areas of legal affairs and consumer protection, internal affairs, sport and voluntary work, expellees, repatriates, and German minorities since December 2018.
Born on 8 August 1973 in Bad Säckingen; Roman Catholic; married, three children.
Obtained Abitur in 1993; completed compulsory basic military service in the German-French brigade from 1993 to 1994; studied law at the University of Freiburg from 1994 to 1999; passed second state examination in law in 2001. Practised as a lawyer from 2001 to 2002; civil servant at the Baden-Württemberg State Ministry from 2002 to 2004, serving as personal assistant to the Minister for State and European Affairs; mayor of Donaueschingen from 2004 to 2013.
Sophie in 't Veld has been a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) since 2004. Currently, she is a member of the Renew Europe Group and serves as the parliamentary leader of the delegation of the social-liberal Dutch political party Democrats 66 (D66) in the European Parliament.
In 't Veld studied history at Leiden University. Before running for European Parliament, she has worked as an assistant to Dutch MEP Johanna Boogerd-Quaak and as Secretary of the European Liberal Democrat and Reform Party (ELDR) in the Committee of the Regions. The ELDR is the precursor of the current ALDE Party.
Sophie in 't Veld has built a profile around a number of priorities: privacy, fundamental rights, rule of law, migration and asylum, and pensions.
These priorities guide her thinking as a member of two European Parliament Committees:
• Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE)
• Environment, Public Health and Food Safety Committee (ENVI)
Furthermore, in 't Veld chairs the LIBE committee’s Rule of Law Monitoring group and serves as vice president of the LGBTI Intergroup in the European Parliament.
Charlotte Dietrich is a project manager at Stiftung Neue Verantwortung for Digital Rights, Surveillance and Democracy. She manages the European Intelligence Oversight Network where she works on strengthening democratic oversight of intelligence services and connecting oversight agencies from all over Europe.
Charlotte has a background in Political Sciences and National Security Studies. She studied at Sciences Po Paris and the Saint Petersburg State University for her undergraduate studies and holds a Master’s degree from King’s College London’s Department of War Studies. In her Master’s dissertation she focused on digital authoritarianism in Kazakhstan. She has gained work experience at the German Embassy in Kazakhstan, at a political foundation in Moscow and at the German Development Bank KfW in Tajikistan. Before joining SNV, she has worked as a Researcher focused on security and defence issues at M&C Saatchi, a strategic communications firm in London, and for the Falling Walls Foundation in Berlin.
Bojan Perkov is a Policy Researcher at the SHARE Foundation. His interests and areas of work include freedom of expression and online media, as well as other issues related to digital rights and freedoms, such as hate speech, net neutrality, censorship, data protection, digital security, etc.
François Thuillier has held numerous positions within the French security services, both operationally and in terms of foresight. He is now an associate researcher at the Centre d'étude sur les conflits, liberté et sécurité (CELS - Paris) and author of "L'Europe du secret - mythes et réalité du renseignement politique interne" (Paris - La Documentation Française - 2000), "La révolution antiterroriste" (Paris - Temps Présent - 2019 - preface by Marc Sageman), as well as the upcoming "Homo Terrorismus" (Temps Présent - 2020).
Jesús Cordero is a lawyer at Leegaltech, specialist in Digital Rights and Corporate Compliance, certified Data Protection Officer (DPO) according to the the Spanish Data Protection Agency Framework, and professor at the Industrial Organization School of the Ministry of Industry in Spain, with his MBA by the European University of Madrid. He is also creator of the national federation of youth United Nations associations, UNSA Spain, awarded with the “Here for Good” prize from Laureate Universities and co-sponsor of the international solidarity artistic initiative “Connecting Cultures”, a travelling exhibition on social inequities faced by children and how art can be a means to combat them. He has led several civic participation initiatives in Spain, the latest of which are communication campaigns to foster literacy on the public consultation on the draft for a Spanish Startup Law (2019) and on the European Commission's public consultation on the EU Data Strategy.
Fieke Jansen is a PhD candidate at the Data Justice Lab at Cardiff University, where she looks at the use of data-driven policing technologies in Europe. She is interested in re-politicising data and technology, by understanding its historical, social, cultural and political context in Europe. Prior to starting her PhD, Fieke worked at the intersection of human rights, digital security, privacy and technology for several international NGOs.
Edin is Advocacy Director at Privacy International, a London-based NGO which exposes and challenges abuses of power by governments and corporations. His research and advocacy focuses on the security industry, surveillance technology, migration, biometrics, state hacking, border controls, sanctions and export controls, intelligence agencies, the telecommunications industry, and security aid. He was previously a researcher at the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute where he focused on preventing illicit trafficking.