Prof. Dr. iur. Indra Spiecker gen. Döhmann, LL.M. (Georgetown Univ.) holds the chair of Public and Administrative Law, esp. Information Law, Environmental Law and Legal Theory at the Goethe-University of Frankfort/Main in Germany. She also is director of the Research Institute on Data Protection in the succession of Prof. Dr. Drs. h.c. Spiros Simitis and member of the Competence Center on IT-Security (KASTEL) at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT).

Prof. Spiecker publishes in the entire field of Constitutional and Administrative Law with a special focus on information law as well as technology law. In her research, she integrates interdisciplinary aspects from (Behavioral) Law and Economics, the Technical Sciences and Legal Theory. Her expertise is valued nationally and internationally; she regularly gives expert opinions on data protection, but also in environmental law, IT-security, health law and technology regulation issues for parliaments, governments and private institutions. Among others, she has been called into the work task force “research information standardization” of the German Council of Science and Humanities and the expert working group “Secure legal framework for Cloud Computing” of the Federal Ministry of Economics and Trade.