Data Protection Commission

Mr Page studied at the Universities of Geneva and St Gallen. He is a founding partner at the law firm Page & Partners, specializing in data protection and privacy.

He is also university lecturer at the University of Geneva and a visiting scholar at Harvard Law School. As a university lecturer at the University of Geneva, Mr Page teaches law and litigation in management and security of information systems, data protection, e-commerce and international sales contracts.

In addition, Mr Page served as a judge in the Swiss federal data protection court and was a member of the federal justice department’s task force on the amendment of Swiss federal data protection law. He is also a member of the World Intellectual Property Organization’s panel of arbitrators on domain name disputes.

In September 2016, the ICRC Assembly appointed Mr Page chairman of the DPC for a term of four years, renewable once.

Since 2007, Ms 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 studied law at the University of Neuchatel and then received a doctorate from the University of Fribourg and a master’s in law from Cambridge University. Before joining the University of Geneva, she was assistant professor of European and international economic law at the University of Bern and was a visiting scholar at Central European University and the University of Michigan.

Ms Hertig Randall is widely published in English, French and German 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 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.

Born in 1970 and raised in Neuchatel and Geneva, Mr Bugnion studied computer science at ETH Zurich and Stanford University, where he received a Ph.D. He spent 18 years in Silicon Valley, where he co-founded two start-ups and served as their chief technology officer: VMware and Nuova Systems (which was acquired by Cisco).

Mr Bugnion returned to Switzerland and joined the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL) in 2012, where he is a professor in the School of Computer and Communication Sciences. Since January 2017, he has been EPFL’s vice-president for information systems.

Mr Bugnion has received numerous awards for his contributions as an academic and an entrepreneur. He is a fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery and a member of the Swiss Academy of Engineering Sciences (SATW).

Mr Bugnion serves as an independent board member for Logitech and Innosuisse, the Swiss innovation agency.

Jean-Philippe Walter studied at the University of Fribourg, where he obtained a master’s 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 on data protection issues for more than 30 years, including as head of the data protection service of the Swiss Federal Office of Justice and as federal data protection and information commissioner ad interim. He has also authored several publications on data protection (both national and international) and access to information.

Mr Walter is also very active in the field of data protection at the international level; he currently chairs the French-Speaking Association of Personal Data Protection Authorities and is first vice-chairman of the Council of Europe’s Consultative Committee on the Convention for the Protection of Individuals with Regard to Automatic Processing of Personal Data (having served as chairman of the committee from 2000 to 2004 and from 2010 to 2016).