Akif Mert
Akif Mert is a German lawyer specialising in white-collar crime with more than 10 years of international experience in managing legal, corporate compliance, and data privacy matters in both emerging and highly regulated markets.
He has spent many years in Singapore as the Regional Head of Compliance and DPO of Allianz Asia Pacific before moving to Switzerland in 2020 to assume the role of the Chief Compliance Officer of the Allianz Suisse Group.
Akif is an active member of the German Institute for Compliance and a regular author of publications about digital trends in compliance.
Kusal Samarasinghe
Kusal Samarasinghe
Alex Federation
Charu Chaudhry Senior
Dr. Jean Louis Raisaro
Dr. Jean Louis is Data Science and Research Lead and Senior Scientist at the ICT Department and Precision Medicine Unit of Lausanne University Hospital (CHUV). His work aims to advance personalized medicine by utilizing advanced machine learning methods and privacy-enhancing technologies to develop new distributed and privacy-preserving solutions for mining of large-scale health data across multiple organizations. He is co-inventor of MedCo (https://medco.epfl.ch), the first open-source and fully privacy-preserving platform for federated analytics of health data, and member of several medical informatics expert groups at the national level within the framework of the Swiss Personalized Health Network (SPHN) initiative.
Jean Louis joined CHUV in 2018 from EPFL Lausanne, Switzerland where he was first a doctoral and then post-doctoral researcher in the Laboratory for Data Security. While at EPFL, he worked in close collaboration with computer scientists, biomedical researchers, geneticists and industrial professionals from Lausanne University Hospital, Harvard Medical School and Sophia Genetics SA on developing the first practical solutions for privacy-preserving management of genomic and health data that were based on homomorphic encryption.
Jean Louis holds a PhD in Computer and Communication Sciences (2018) from EPFL Lausanne, Switzerland, a MSc in Bioinformatics and Medical Informatics (2012) and a BSc in Biomedical Engineering (2009) from University of Pavia, Italy.
