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Hanneke Luth is a strategic advisor on privacy and information security issues. She has consulted many organisations in the Dutch public sector (ministries, city counsels), non-profit and telecom industry on how to enhance information security and privacy broadly. Her focus is on how to make it work within the organisation (processes, systems, projects), with a specific focus on governance and risk management.

Since 2020, she fulfills the role of Data Protection Officer of the Erasmus MC, the largest academic hospital in the Netherlands. Health care, health research and health education, and connected business operations, come with considerable challenges regarding adequate use of sensitive personal data. For an organisation as the Erasmus MC with an important public role in society, careful well considered handling of personal data is a license to operate. Hanneke sees acting as DPO for the Erasmus MC as a great responsibility and a privilege. In this capacity she also advises on how the national legislation should be enhanced to facilitate health research while respecting or even promoting the fundamental privacy rights of individuals.