Daniel Drewer is Data Protection Officer and Head of the Data Protection Function at Europol.

Daniel Drewer joined the Legal Service of Europol in 2003. He set up the Confidentiality Desk and went on to become Confidentiality Officer with responsibilities in the area of data security. He served as Secretary to the Europol Security Committee. In 2007 he was selected as Head of Unit, responsible for data protection and data security compliance in the newly established Information Integrity Unit. In 2010 the Management Board appointed Daniel Drewer as Europol’s first ever Data Protection Officer.

Daniel Drewer is founder of the Europol Data Protection Experts Network (EDEN), a community that includes more than 800 members stemming from law enforcement, regulators, industries, academia and non-governmental organisations aiming at exploring cutting-edge topics at the intersection of law enforcement and emerging technologies.

He holds a Master of Law from the University of Hamburg.