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Marie-Hélène Boulanger is currently Acting Director of Fundamental Rights, Democracy and Rule of Law and Head of Unit in charge of democracy, citizenship and anti-corruption at the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Justice and Consumers. She began her career in data protection at the University of Namur, and then spent five years at the Belgian Data Protection Authority, two of which she served as Secretary and Head of Service. From there, she joined the Directorate-General for Internal Market of the European Commission as a national expert in the Data Protection Unit. She subsequently moved to the Directorate-General for Justice and Home Affairs, where she led the legal team of the unit responsible for large-scale IT systems and specialised in the policy aspects of the Schengen Information System.