Jean Herveg obtained his Master in Law at the University of Louvain (Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium) in 1993.

He is a member of the Bar of Brussels since 1993 where he is mostly active in real estate law as well as in the financial aspects of private life (bank and financial transactions) and family life (inheritances and matrimonial property).

He is an expert in IT law (privacy and eCommerce) and Health law (eHealth products and services).

Since 2000, he has been with the "Information, Law & Society Research Centre" (University of Namur, Faculty of Law, CRIDS, Belgium). He teaches « Privacy : Cross Perspectives on Technological Innovations » (LL.M on the Law of Internet) and « Processing of personal data » (post-graduate program INFOSAFE). He is the author of numerous scientific publications and a regularly invited speaker.

Jean Herveg holds a Law Degree from the University of Louvain (UCL, Louvain-la-Neuve) (1988-1993, High Honors).

He is a member of the Brussels Bar since 1993 where he is a registered expert in IT law (privacy and eCommerce) and Health law (eHealth products and services.

He has been a researcher at the Centre de Recherche Information, Droit et Société (Université de Namur, Faculté de Droit) since September 1, 2000.

He taught "Medical Law and ICT" from September 2005 to August 2011. Then, he taught "Privacy: cross-perspective on technological innovations" with Professor Jean-Noël COLIN (2011-2014). He gives an introductory course on data protection in the INFOSAFE continuing education programme since 2007 and in the DATASAFE continuing education programme since 2016. From 2010 to 2017, he gave an introductory course on data protection as part of the MIAGE Master's degree (Computer Science & Innovation), a continuing education course organised by the University of Nancy and the Luxemburg Institute of Science & Technology.

Jean’s research activities focus on privacy and data protection in general and on the protection of personal data concerning health in particular, as well as on eHealth products and services.

He is the Chairperson of the EAHL GoI on Data Protection in Healthcare.

He is the author of numerous publications, reports and communications on privacy, data protection and e-Health (over 180).

He has participated in numerous research projects at Belgian and European level.

He is in charge of the LIS (Liberties & Information Society) Department since 1 September 2018.

• IT Law (Privacy & Data Protection)
• Health Law (eHealth products and services)
• Inheritances and Matrimonial Property
• Property Law
• Real Estate Law

• Chairperson of the EAHL GoI on Data Protection in Healthcare
• Reviewer de la revue Computers & Security (2009)
• Membre de l'association Henri CAPITANT des amis de la culture juridique française (2008)
• Membre de "European Association of Health Law" (2008)
• Membre de "European Public Health Law Network" (EPHLN) (2008)
• Enseignant du programme INFOSAFE (ICHEC-UNamur) (www.infosafe.be) (2007)
• Représentant de la filière "Droit" au bureau du programme INFOSAFE (2007)
• Membre du Comité de Rédaction de "Revista de Direito Médico e da Saùde" (2006)
• Membre de "Healthgrid Association" (2003)
• Correspondant de l'association française de recherche et formation en droit médical pour le réseau des jeunes chercheurs (www.arfdm.com)
• Membre de l'association "Famille & Droit" (1993)
• Membre de "International Society of Family Law" (1993)Avocat au barreau de Bruxelles (1993)
• Directeur de l'unité "Libertés & Société de l'Information" (2018)

Le rapport de recherches "Legally eHealth" a été primé "étude du mois" en février 2007 par la Commission européenne (ICT for Health - Information Society and Media DG) et a été publié en mars 2008 par la Commission européenne

• Master in Law (University of Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, 1993)
• Certificat d'aptitude à la profession d'avocat (Brussels, 1994)