Department of Legal Sciences & Members
Pierluigi Perri, Ph.D., is a Lawyer head of the practice area Data Protection & Privacy of Chiomenti
law firm and an Associate Professor in “Information Security, Privacy and Protection of Sensitive
Data” at the Law School, “Data Protection, Law and AI” at the LLM in Human Centered Artificial
Intelligence and “Cybersecurity and protection of personal data: legal and policies issues” at the
LLM in Data Science and Economics of the University of Milan.
Since 2017 he is Founder and Director of the postgraduate Course in “Data Protection and Data
Governance” and “Big Data, Artificial Intelligence and Platforms”.
He is the Data Protection Officer of the University of Milan.
He was co-rapporteur for the Council of Europe for the Expert Committee on “Human Rights
Dimensions of Automated Data Processing and Different Forms of Artificial Intelligence” and
Seconded Official at the Cybercrime Division of the Information Society and Action against Crime
Directorate at the Council of Europe in Strasbourg.
He was Visiting Postdoctoral Associate at the Information Society Project of Yale Law School, Non-
Residential Fellow at the Center for Internet and Society of Stanford University – Faculty of Law,
Visiting Researcher at the Legal & Corporate Affairs Department of Microsoft Corp. in Redmond.
His academic interests are focused on Artificial Intelligence, Privacy, Cybersecurity and
Cybercrimes.
He is author of three books and numerous scientific papers concerning data protection and
automated processing of personal data, information security, surveillance and fundamental rights.