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Dr. In. Andrea Jelinek is a lawyer and the head of the Austrian Data Protection Authority since 1.1.2014, formerly head of the data protection authority from 1 December 2003 - 15 October 2010 and 1 July 2011 - 31.12.2013 head of PK 03 of the provincial police department in Vienna, from 18 October 2010 - 30. She was temporarily in charge of the Foreign Police Office of the BPD Vienna from 1 June 2011; from January 1993 to November 2003 she was a lecturer and from 1998 head of unit in the Legal/Legistics Department of the Federal Ministry of the Interior (specialist areas and specialties): ECHR, constitutional law, SPG, alien law, asylum law); November 1991 - December 1992 legal adviser in the General Secretariat of the Austrian Rectors' Conference, 1988 - October 1991 trainee lawyer; 1983 - 1987: central services and adviser in the Fund for the Promotion of Scientific Research FWF, various activities in the private sector such as public relations, sales management.