Benedikt Siebelmann, LL.M. (UWA)

Benedikt Siebelmann advises national and international companies on complex issues of data protection law and artificial intelligence (AI).

Benedikt supports clients in implementing data-driven business models, extracting value from data, and successfully deploying AI within enterprises. He advises on all questions regarding governance and the use of AI. His primary focus is ensuring compliance with the requirements of the GDPR and the European AI Act. This includes, for instance, assistance with the implementation of structures, processes, and policies/guidelines as well as the ongoing assessment of AI use cases.

Benedikt studied law at the Christian-Albrechts-University in Kiel and the University of Bologna, where he specialized in European and Public International Law. Afterwards, he completed his LL.M. degree at the University of Western Australia in Perth with a focus on data protection law and a training as a mediator (NMAS). 

During his legal clerkship at the Hanseatic Higher Regional Court, he focused his legal practice further on IT- and data protection law. Benedikt worked at the chamber for IT- and intellectual property law of the Regional Court of Hamburg, the ePrivacy, Europe and Social Network unit of the Data Protection Authority of Hamburg and the German Federal Foreign Office’s International unit for Cyber Policy and Security Coordination in Berlin. He completed his legal clerkship at a leading international law firm in Frankfurt a.M. in the area of data privacy.

Benedikt is author of specialist articles on data protection law.