Assoc. Prof. Nina Gumzej graduated from the University of Zagreb Faculty of Law in 2001 (summa cum laude). During her studies she was awarded with the Dean’s award for outstanding academic achievement and the Dean’s and Rector’s awards for best student paper. In 2002 she earned her LL.M. degree (Distinction) in International Business Law at the Central European University in Hungary (courses taken also at the T.M.C Asser Instituut in the Netherlands) and the Ph.D. degree in 2011 at the University of Zagreb Faculty of Law (doctoral thesis on data protection in electronic communications). She passed the bar exam in 2005. Dr. Gumzej started working in 2003 and has been employed at the Zagreb Law Faculty since 2012. She teaches several courses at the Zagreb Law Faculty (Information Technology Law, Privacy and Electronic Communications, Electronic Media Law, Internet Governance and Regulation, Introduction to Information Security, Cybersecurity and Cybercrime) and at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing (Information law). Dr. Gumzej has so far been engaged as an external legal expert for several studies for the European Commission, and as an expert evaluator of projects under its programs. As a selected representative from the academia, she participated in the Young Leaders Program supported by the European Institute of Innovation and Technology Foundation and the European Commission, academically steered by Imperial College London. Dr. Gumzej is an editorial board member for the international journals (Juridical Tribune, Perspectives of Law and Public Administration), scientific committee member of the international conferences (Fintech, Cyberspace and Artificial Intelligence Law; Perspectives of Business Law in the Third Millennium), organizing and program committee member of the international conference SoftCOM  (Symposium on Information Security and Intellectual Property – ISIP) and program committee member of the international conference MIPRO (Information and Communication Technology Law – ICTLAW). She is an associate member of the Croatian Academy of Legal Sciences.