Dr Lukasz Olejnik is an independent cybersecurity and privacy researcher and consultant.
He holds a Computer Science PhD at INRIA (France). He worked at CERN (European Organisation for Nuclear Research) and was a research associate at University College London. He was associated with Princeton's Center for Information Technology Policy, and with Oxford's Centre for Technology and Global Affairs. He was elected a Member of the World Wide Web Consortium's (W3C) Technical Architecture Group. Former cyberwarfare advisor at the International Committee of the Red Cross in Geneva, where he worked on the humanitarian consequences of cyber attacks. He advised on science and new technologies at the European Data Protection Supervisor. He helps various companies and organisations. He has experience in R&D, including from the side of agencies rating projects or funding proposals.
His comments appeared in the Financial Times, Washington Post, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Sueddeutsche Zeitung, El Pais, and Le Monde. He authored scientific publications and opinion articles in venues like Wired or Foreign Policy.