Vagelis Papakonstantinou is an attorney in Athens and in Brussels, co-founder of MPlegal, a niche technology law firm. He is also a professor in the Faculty of Law of the University of Brussels. Since 2016 he is an alternate Member of the Hellenic Data Protection Authority; prior to that he served as a member of the Board of Directors of the  Hellenic Copyright Organisation (for two terms). He has taught entrepreneurship in the MBA programme of the University of the Aegean, and publishes regularly in all of the above fields; his personal website may be found at www.papakonstantinou.me