Jacques Beglinger 

SwissHoldings, Federation of Industrial and Service Groups in Switzerland

Attorney-at-law, D.E.S.S.

* Co-chair, EBITT Task Force Security & Authentication

* Rapporteur, CLP Task Force on Technology Transfer

Mr Beglinger is an Expert in Information technology and communications law including computer, copyright and other intellectual property law, internet communications law as well as mergers and acquisitions and international construction. He also serves as an arbitrator in international commercial arbitration.

Memberships:

* ICC Commission on E-Business, IT and Telecoms (EBITT)

* BIAC Business and Industry Advisory Committee to the OECD, member of Task Force Spam / Development of Best Practices for ISPs and E-mail marketers.

* Swiss Business Federation, Head of the Task Force on Data Governance

* Secretary of the Swiss Business Data Protection Association

Mr Beglinger studied in Zurich, but graduated also in France with a Diplôme d'Etudes Supérieures Spécialisées (LL.M.) in international commercial law (1985) and received additional education at US universities. He passed the Zurich Bar exam in 1989. He then participated in the build-up of the Swiss Legal Database Swisslex (1986 - 1989) and acquired in depth knowledge in ITC- and technology law as a legal counsel to the large, globally operating Swiss technology group ABB Asea Brown Boveri, where he ultimately assumed groupe-wide responsibility for legal matters of i.a. e-procurement, e-recruitment, information systems infrastructure, e-invoicing and e-business (1991-2002). Mr. Beglinger served as an expert to Swiss federal lawmaking and is a founding partner of the Swiss Center of Competence for Records Management and the founding president of the Swiss Business Data Protection Association.

Languages:German, French, English 

Publications:

* BEGLINGER/LEHMANN/NEUENSCHWANDER/WILDHABER, Records Management, Praktiker-Leitfaden zur gesetzeskonformen elektronischen Dokumentenführung- und -archivierung, [Practitioner's Handbook to legally compliant management and archiving of company data, including forms and checklists], 2008, 432 p., ISBN 978-3-033-01801-3.

* TOBLER/BEGLINGER, Essential EU Law in Charts; 278 charts, 363 p., HVG-ORAC, 2010, ISBN 978-963-258-086-9, produced within the framework of EUR-Charts,  http://www.eur-charts.eu 

* TOBLER/BEGLINGER, Essential EU Law in Text; Companion publication to "Essential EU Law in Charts", 112 p., HVG-ORAC, 2010, ISBN 978-963-258-087-6.

* TOBLER/BEGLINGER/GEURSEN, Essential EU Competition Law in Charts; The practitioner's field manual; 143 p., HVG-ORAC, 2011, ISBN 978-963-258-118-7, http://competition.eur-charts.eu