Summary
Pierre-françois Pirlet is a seasoned Data Protection Officer with 13 years of professional experience, currently leading GDPR compliance efforts at the University of Liège. He blends academic rigor from a PhD in History with practical project management and public-sector experience to design auditable data governance for a large university environment. His background includes hands-on teaching and research, plus prior roles in project management at Service public de Wallonie and client-facing positions in banking, which give him a rare mix of stakeholder empathy and regulatory focus. Trained in full‑stack web development through Free Code Camp, he brings technical fluency to privacy engineering and compliance automation initiatives. Known for translating complex legal requirements into pragmatic policies and processes, he emphasizes measurable controls and cross-departmental collaboration. Based in Liège, he combines scholarly attention to detail with practical implementation skills to keep institutional data practices robust and user-aware.
13 years of coding experience
Full Stack Web Development Certification, Computer Software Engineering, Full Stack Web Development Certification, Computer Software Engineering at Free Code Camp
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), History, Ph.D. in History, Arts and Archaelogy, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), History, Ph.D. in History, Arts and Archaelogy at Université de Liège
English, Spanish, flemish, French