Izabela Kowalczuk-Pakuła

Practice Areas

Data Protection

Career

Studied law at University of Warsaw (Poland)

Studied law at KU Leuven (Belgium)

Experience as a lawyer with Polish and international law firms in Poland

Professional Memberships

Warsaw Bar Association (OIRP)

Personal

Izabela is a partner and head of the Privacy and Data Protection team at Bird & Bird's Warsaw office. She joined our firm in 2010, starting as a junior associate and progressing to a partner. She has set up one of the largest data protection teams on the Polish market that serves clients across multiple jurisdictions as a data protection hub for GDPR projects. She is a business-minded expert with extensive experience in data protection and ePrivacy. She is passionate about technology, especially its privacy angle, and her professional expertise is strongly related to this area. Izabela effectively advises clients on designing marketing services, Adtech, (retargeting, programmatics, look alike retargeting), recruitment processes, artificial intelligence and cloud service, for the insurance, FinTech and pharmaceutical sectors. She also supports both Polish and international clients in creating a thoughtful and pragmatic data protection strategy and assists clients through data leak crisis situations, representing them during audits and in proceedings before the Data Protection Authority and the courts. She coordinates international projects that require analysing data protection laws of both EU and non-EU countries.