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Bart Willemsen
VP Analyst
Bart Willemsen is a VP Analyst with broad insight and experience in privacy-related challenges in an international context, as well as on ethics, digital society, and the intersection with modern technology (mainly AI). He has a broad and in-depth history of experience across industries. With detailed knowledge, he is a privacy and data protection advocate and technology afficionado with a firm drive to help organizations ethically generate value and seize the discipline's opportunities in both strategy and tactics.
Mr. Willemsen was among the earlier Fellows of Information Privacy (FIP), and held accreditations like CIPP/E, CIPM, CISA, CISM, bringing broad, proven and multidisciplinary best practices to his clients.
Previous experience
Mr. Willemsen's previous job responsibility included implementing, auditing and overseeing integral privacy and cybersecurity programs and compliance strategies for holding companies and their subsidiaries.
He has worked for over 13 years at various international businesses, and was a (Chief) Privacy and Security Officer. He represented multiple companies as a member in the Dutch National PT Board working party for information management, digital payment systems, the privacy workgroup and was involved in consultation rounds for previous (European) data protection legislation.
Professional background
Transdev , Privacy Officer, Security Officer, 3 years
Connexxion , Privacy and Security Officer, 11 years
Areas of coverage
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AI Governance and Information Risk Management
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Cybersecurity Leadership
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Cyber Risk
Education
B.A., (B-ICT) Business Informatics, Information Security, Wageningen and EPBS
B.A., (B-ICT) IT Management, E3 Maastricht
Top Issues That I Help Clients Address
Customer and employee privacy and data protection challenges
Developing privacy programs and privacy officer's best practices
Reviewing guidelines, privacy and risk management programs, policies, (white)papers
Ethical challenges with AI and other technology in business and society
Artificial Intelligence related privacy, bias, risk, and ethics concerns