The ICRC Data Protection Commission
The ICRC Data Protection Commission (DPC) is the ICRC body responsible for checking that the organization's processing of personal data complies with its Rules on Personal Data Protection and other applicable rules, and for ruling on the rights of individuals when their cases or other data-protection cases are referred to it.
Proceedings against an ICRC processing operation may be brought before the DPC by the ICRC Data Protection Office (DPO) if a satisfactory solution cannot be achieved through its intervention. If the DPO fails to refer the matter to the DPC, data subjects may also exercise their rights directly with the commission.
The DPC may also issue recommendations on data protection on the basis of the individual cases it handles, or on any matter on which its views are sought.
The DPC carries out its duties in full independence.
Members of the Data Protection Commission
Me. Gérald Page
Chair
Me. Page studied at the Universities of Geneva and St. Gallen. He is currently a partner at Page & Partners law firm, which he founded, specialising in data protection and privacy.
He is also university lecturer at the University of Geneva as well as visiting scholar at the Harvard Law School. As university lecturer at the University of Geneva, Me. Page teaches law and litigation in management and security of information systems, data protection, e-commerce and international sales contracts.
In addition. Me. Page served as Judge at the Swiss Federal Data Protection Court, and was a member of the Task Force of Federal Justice Department on the amendment of Swiss Federal Data Protection Law. He is also a member of the WIPO Panel of Arbitrators on domain name disputes.
On the 16th September 2016, the Assembly appointed Me. Page Chairman of the ICRC Data Protection Commission for a term of four years, renewable once.
Maya Hertig Randall
Since 2007, Maya Hertig Randall has been Professor of Constitutional Law at the University of Geneva and co-Director of the Certificate of Advanced Studies in Human Rights. She took a first law degree at the University of Neuchâtel, followed by a doctorate from the University of Fribourg and a Master of Law (LLM) from Cambridge. Before joining the University of Geneva, she was Assistant Professor of European and International Economic Law at the University of Bern, as well as a visiting scholar at the Central European University in Budapest and the University of Michigan.
Maya Hertig Randall has widely published in French, German and English on human rights, comparative and international constitutionalism, federalism and the accommodation of diversity.
Since 2012, she has been a member of the Swiss Federal Commission against Racism.
Samia Hurst-Majno
Samia Hurst-Majno was elected to the Assembly in 2022. She was born in 1971 and is a professor of biomedical ethics at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Geneva, where she chairs the Institute for Ethics, History and the Department of Community Health and Medicine. She studied medicine and specialized in internal medicine at the University of Geneva, then trained in bioethics at the Department of Bioethics of the US National Institutes of Health.
She has been a clinical ethics consultant to the Geneva University Hospitals since 2003, served on the Central Ethics Committee of the Swiss Academy of Medical Sciences from 2008 to 2012, and as chair of the Ethical, Legal, and Social Issues group and vice-chair of the Swiss National COVID-19 Science Task Force from 2020 to 2022. She is a member of the Senate at the Swiss Academy of Medical Sciences and the Swiss National Advisory Commission on Biomedical Ethics, and vice-president of the executive committee of the Council for International Organizations of Medical Sciences (CIOMS).
Her research focuses on ethical issues arising in clinical practice, health care systems, and public health, with a particular focus on the protection of vulnerable persons. Her definition of vulnerability was integrated into the Declaration of Helsinki 2013, and into the CIOMS international guidelines for health-related research involving humans in 2015.
Edouard Bugnion
Born in 1970 and raised in Neuchatel and Geneva. Edouard Bugnion studied at ETH Zurich and received his Ph.D. from Stanford University, both in computer science. He spent at total of 18 years in Silicon Valley where he co-founded two startups and served as their Chief Technology Officer: VMware and Nuova Systems (acquired by Cisco).
Edouard Bugnion returned to Switzerland and joined EPFL in 2012, where he is a Professor in the School of Computer and Communication Science. Since January 2017, he is also the Vice-President for Information Systems of EPFL.
Professor Bugnion received numerous awards for his contributions as an academic and as an entrepreneur. He is a Fellow of the ACM and a Member of the Swiss Academy of Engineering Sciences (SATW).
Edouard Bugnion serves as an independent Board member of Logitech and of Innosuisse — the Swiss Innovation Agency.
Jean-Philippe Walter
Jean-Philippe Walter studied at the University of Fribourg, where he obtained a Master of Laws and a Doctorate in Law. He is currently the Deputy Federal Data Protection and Information Commissioner, in the Swiss data protection authority.
He has been working with data protection issues for more than thirty years, being inter alia the Head of the Data Protection Service of the Federal Office of Justice and Federal Data Protection and Information Commissioner ad interim, as well as authoring several publications concerning data protection (both national and international) and access to information.
Jean-Philippe Walter is also very active in data protection at the international level, being currently the Chairman of the French Speaking Association of Data Protection Authorities and the 1st Vice-Chairman of the Consultative Committee Convention 108 for the Protection of Individuals with regard to Automatic Processing of Personal Data at the Council of Europe (having been the Chairman of the said Committee between 2000 and 2004 and 2010 and 2016).
