Tobias Bräutigam is a partner at Bird & Bird and the head of the firm’s Privacy and Data Protection group in Helsinki, where he advises local and international clients on complex privacy and data issues. His practice offers detailed advice on a range of matters including the development of new products and services, the review and negotiation of contracts, and the drafting of policies and review of campaigns. He also advises clients on Finnish and international GDPR and data law projects, including the implementation of global data management strategies, international data transfers and local data protection compliance.
Taking an innovative approach to his practice, Tobias Bräutigam regularly develops new data protection-specific services for clients, such as the DPO back up and support service, and joint training programmes with legal and IT experts. Before joining Bird & Bird, he was a senior legal counsel at Microsoft and Nokia in global privacy roles, heading the Microsoft Mobile privacy programme, among others. This senior in-house experience has provided him with unique, insider knowledge of clients’ needs, and included advising on matters of privacy compliance, with privacy impact assessments, guideline drafting as well as incident handling.
Tobias Bräutigam has served in various roles for the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP), among others on the European advisory board, KnowledgeNet chair and on the Board of Attorneys at the IAPP. He is on the steering board of the Cambridge Privacy Forum, a conference for senior privacy professionals.
He serves as a Docent in Information Law at the University of Helsinki and as a Professor of Practice at Aalto University and contributes to privacy publications on data protection issues. He has been accepted as a Fellow of Information Privacy (FIP) by the IAPP. He is fluent in English, German and Finnish and has a good command of French.
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