Principal Advisor on Strategies of Justice Policy and Digitalization in the Directorate-General for Justice and Consumers of the European Commission. Before, he was the Director responsible for Fundamental rights and Union citizenship, the lead Director for the reform of the EU data protection legislation (GDPR), the Whistleblower Directive, the “Snowden” follow up, the negotiations of the EU – US Privacy Shield and the EU Code of Conduct against Hate speech and Incitement to violence on the internet.
Before joining DG Justice, he held posts in the Legal Service of the Commission, the Cabinet of Commissioner Nielson, and in the Directorates General for Trade, Transport and Maritime Affairs. He has broad experience as an advocate representing the European Commission in litigation before the European Courts and he has published extensively on EU law, Democracy, Artificial Intelligence and Data Protection.
Nemitz is the Chairperson of the Arthur Langerman Foundation at the Technical University of Berlin and Trustee of the Leo Baeck Institute, New York. He is Member of the Board of Gegen Vergessen – Für Demokratie e.V. and of the Committee for Media and Internet Policy of the SPD Board, Berlin. He is also Chair of the Archivum Apertum Foundation and Member of the Advisory Board of the Future Institute of John Cabot University, Rome. He is also the European Ambassador of the Boston Global Forum and the Honorary Representative of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg in Italy and to the Holy See.
