The newly elected UN Special Rapporteur for Privacy, Dr. Ana Brian Nougrères, will take part in the 42nd Plenary meeting of the Committee of Convention 108, on Wednesday 17 November.

It is a privilege for the Committee to welcome Dr Nougrères a few months after her election, to exchange views on data protection and the right to privacy.

In July 2021, the UN Human Rights Council appointed Dr. Ana Brian Nougrères of Uruguay as the Special Rapporteur on the right to privacy and she took up the mandate on 1 August 2021. A Professor of Law, Privacy and ICT at the School of Engineering, University of Montevideo and a Professor of Law, Data Protection and ICT at the School of Law, University of the Republic, Montevideo. She is also a practicing Attorney-at-law and Consultant on data protection. Her latest book, ‘The Uruguayan law system facing security breaches’, was published by LA LEY (Spain) in 2021.