Caroline Gloor-Scheidegger

Caroline Gloor-Scheidegger

Federal Data Protection and Information Commissioner

Head of the Department for International Relations at the Swiss Federal Data Protection and Information Commissioner (FDPIC). Caroline studied at the University of Berne and is a qualified lawyer. She is Frist Vice-Chair of the Consultative Committee of Convention 108 of the Council of Europe. She has been working at the FDPIC since May 2000, gaining a large data protection knowledge, namely in the areas police, migration, Schengen, transport (road, air and rail), certification and transborder data transfers. She carried out different data protection inspections and participated as an expert in Schengen Evaluations and was Chair of the VIS Supervision Coordination Group of the Schengen Member States. Before joining FDPIC, she worked in the private sector and in the federal administration.