About the IAPP

Marie-Catherine Wagner is a research associate at the Department of Innovation and Digitalisation in Law at the University of Vienna, where she is mainly involved in international, mostly EU funded research projects dealing with data protection law in the health and food sector as well as the preparation of educational materials for children. As a member of the UN Taskforce on Privacy and the Protection of Health-Related Data established by Prof. Joseph A. Cannataci, Marie-Catherine provided contributions to the UN Recommendation on the Protection and Use of Health-related Data. 

Marie-Catherine is a founder and director of the Data Protection Moot Court (DPMC), a competition of students or recent graduates from different law schools in a fictional procedure before a supervisory authority. For more information see: Data Protection Moot Court (univie.ac.at).

Marie-Catherine teaches on site and online courses at the University of Vienna, the Vienna School of International Studies, a Universitiy of Applied Sciences and the Université Paris Cité and gives presentations at different conferences.

Prior to joining the Department of Innovation and Digitalisation in Law Marie-Catherine worked for the Austrian Federal Computing Center in the field of Digital Transformation Projects and was also a legal editor for governmental online services.

Marie-Catherine holds a ‘Magister’ Degree in law from the University of Vienna and Bachelor’s degree in International Business from the Vienna University of Economics and Business. She also studied at Bentley University in Massachusetts USA and is currently writing a doctorial dissertation in the in the field of Children's Fundamental Right to Data Protection at the University of Vienna.