Arthur van der Wees is founder and managing director of Arthur’s Legal & Strategies, an international strategic law firm with a global reach. Arthur is attorney at law, standardisation and policy expert, entrepreneur, strategist and frequent speaker worldwide. He has in-depth experience and is well-connected in the world of digital ecosystems, data, digital identity, cyber-physical and autonomous systems, accountability, resilience and global sustainable prosperity. He is (co-)author of various publications about innovation, digital transformation, data, IoT, computing, security and privacy and trust, and he has contributed to several EU regulations and other policy instruments for the Digital Age. Furthermore he is an advisory board member and partner respectively in more than 15 European projects.

Arthur’s Legal, Strategies & Systems is a member of the EU Alliance for Industrial Data, Cloud & Edge, and is leading both the taskforce on sovereignty, as well as the taskforce on cybersecurity. And, of course, it is a consortium partner of CONCORDIA (strategies, roadmap, data, policy, legal, chair ethics committee and data protection officer).