Dr. Tobias Naef studied political sciences at the University of Zurich (BA) and law at the University of Bern (BLaw/MLaw) with a focus on European and International Economic Law. Afterwards, he started a doctorate at the University of Zurich and worked as a research fellow for Prof. Matthias Oesch. He was a visiting researcher at the University of Amsterdam Institute for Information Law, the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law at the University of Cambridge and the Wilson Center in Washington D.C. Upon the conclusion of the dissertation, he first worked as a lawyer for data protection and digitalization on a legislative project at the Swiss Federal Office for Customs and Border Security. Currently, he works as a lawyer for the Data Protection Commissioner of the Canton Zurich.
“This is quite a stark finding — that lacklustre supervision and enforcement could violate not only EU law but even WTO law (who would have thought that?) — and an illustration of the rich and thought— provoking writing found in this doctoral thesis. It is a book about which much more could be said than the limited space of a standard book review would allow.” (Jacob Kornbeck, Journal of Data Protection & Privacy, Vol. 6 (2), 2023)