Ursula Widmer
Founding Partner, Dr. Widmer & Partners; Bern

Ursula Widmer is a member of the Swiss bar and is widely recognised as a leading expert practitioner in information technology, telecommunications, Internet and e-business law.  She was a member of the academic staff at the Institute of Swiss Private and Comparative Law at the University of Berne, and in 1983, she founded her own law firm, which specializes exclusively in information technology, Internet, e-business and telecommunications law.  She is a lecturer in information technology and Internet law at the University of Berne and a lecturer in information security law at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETHZ).

She is a member of the Advisory Board of the journal datamaster and is the author of numerous publications in the fields of information technology law, telecommunications law, Internet and e-business law.  

Ursula Widmer is a member of the German Society for Law and Information Technology (DGRI) and the English Society for Computers & Law (SCL), and she is a member of the board of the German Foundation for Law and Information Technology (DSRI).  She is a former member of the Swiss Government’s Expert Commission for Cybercrime and a former member of the Swiss Federal Data Protection Commission (federal arbitration and appeal court).  She is vice president of the International Technology Law Association (ITechLaw) and chairs its International Visiting Associate Program.