Area(s) of expertise:
Personal Data Privacy
Information Technology
Practice areas
- Personal data privacy law
- Data protection law and technology
Education
- Law, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, 1987
- Ph.D in law, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, 1993. Thesis on
legal aspect of teleworking
Hester de Vries
Hester de Vries is one of the Dutch leading experts in data
protection law.
Prior to joining Kennedy Van der Laan in 2000 she worked as a
researcher at the
Institute for Information Technology and Law of the Vrije
Universiteit in Amsterdam where she earned her Ph.D. with a
doctoral thesis on the legal aspects of teleworking and electronic
consumer services.
After completing her doctorate, she worked at the Hugo
Sinzheimer Institute for labor and law of the University of
Amsterdam where she was an expert member of the committee of the
Dutch government Social Economic Council that advised on personnel
tracking systems. She then became a senior policy officer at the
Dutch Data Protection Board, where she managed a major project
regarding data processing and data protection.
Hester focuses her practice on the many aspects of data
protection law and technology.
Hester is amazing in many respects, one being that she got
married and defended her doctoral thesis on the same day!
Recommendations:
Chambers Europe 2012
"Hester De Vries remains one of the market's most highly
respected specialists for data protection and privacy
work."
Who's Who Legal 2011
Hester is recommended in the field of Internet and
E-commerce