Tsvetan Tanev is Senior Legal Adviser, Data Protection and Compliance Officer at the Joint Office of RailNetEurope (RNE) in Vienna, Austria, with more than two decades of professional experience as an in-house legal practitioner. He started his career as a junior legal advisor at the Bulgarian Ministry of Transport. He then became Chief Legal Officer at the largest national employer in Bulgaria, the railway infrastructure manager NRIC. He joined RNE in 2013 and is currently the legal part of the team supporting and implementing various IT and data projects. In the last few years, data in all its forms and sizes has come his way and he is confronted on a daily basis with the legal challenges of handling industrial data exchange and sharing within and beyond the railway sector in Europe.
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