Matthias Schmidl
• Born January 5th, 1983
• Studied law at the University of Vienna and the Rijkuniversiteit Groningen (ERASMUS),
graduation as Magister iuris (Mag. iur) in 2006 and as Doctor of law (Dr. iur.) in 2008
• Entered the civil service in 2007
• 2007-2011 research assistent at the Austrian Supreme Administrative Court (2010: 3 months
internship at the then European Civil Service Tribunal in Luxembourg)
• 2011-2012 desk officer in the Constitutional Service/Austrian Federal Chancellery
• 2011-2013 desk officer in the former Austrian Data Protection Commission
• 2014-2023 Deputy Director of the Austrian Data Protection Authority; Austrian
representative in the Council of Europe Advisory Committee on Data Protection (T-PD) until
2016
• Since 2024 Director/Commissioner of the Austrian Data Protection Authority; Austrian
representative in the EDPB
• Lecturer for data protection law at the University of Vienna, University of Graz, Danube
University of Krems and University of Applied Sciences Wiener Neustadt
• Head of Department AI and Data Protection at the Institute for Digital Transformation and AI,
Sigmund Freud University of Vienna
