Karakasi Kyriaki

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Kyriaki Karakasi is a Legal Auditor at the Hellenic Data Protection Authority. Graduated from the Faculty of Law of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Holder of a Master's Degree (DEA) from the Faculty of Law of the University of Montpellier I in Public Law, specializing in Administrative Law. MBA holder from the International University of Greece. She worked at the Special Legal Office of the National Bank of Greece in Thessaloniki as a trainee lawyer and she was Attorney at Law for 7 years as a member of the Thessaloniki Bar Association. She speaks English, French and Italian at an excellent level. Adult trainer certified by the national organisation “E.O.Π.Π.E.Π.». She has successfully participated in a secondment program organized by the European Data Protection Board and by the European Data Protection Supervisor serving at the Croatian Data Protection Authority. She is selected and registered in the European Commission' s Pool of Experts of 2024 and 2025 regarding the Schengen Evaluation on the Data Protection field. She has already participated in the Schengen Evaluation of Hungary. She has been selected and successfully participated in the Erasmus for Public Administration organized by the School of European Administration in Brussels. She is author of various articles on the data protection field such as, indicatively: «GDPR application issues under the light of Blockchain Technology», «GDPR Application Issues regarding big data in the energy sector» , «The GDPR implementation in connection with the purposes of preventing money laundering in the field of online betting and games», «The use of image as personal data in journalistic research under the light of the case-law of the European Court of Human Rights”, «Synthetic data: utility, risks and challenges» etc.