The appointment was made in consultation with the faculty's Works Council and the Faculty Student Council.

'In recent months, I have come to know Mireille van Eechoud as an exceptionally skilled and collegial manager. Moreover, she is a connector par excellence. She has a clear vision for the direction of the faculty and knows how to bring people together, both inside and outside the faculty, to further strengthen the impact of its education and research. I am therefore very pleased that Mireille wants to continue to serve as dean in the coming years,' says Edith Hooge, president of the Executive Board and chair of the appointment advisory committee.

About Van Eechoud

Van Eechoud has worked at the UvA’s Institute for Information Law since 1996, and has been professor of Information Law since 2012. Until September 2019, she was the director of the Master's programme in Information Law, after which she became director of the Amsterdam Graduate School of Law. Van Eechoud has also served as chair of the University Research Committee (UOC), which advises the Executive Board on research policy.

Van Eechoud also holds a number of advisory and management positions outside the UvA. For example, she is chair of the Copyright Committee (a statutory advisory body to the Dutch Ministry of Justice and Security), chair of the board of the Association for Copyright Law, elected member of the European Copyright Society and member of the editorial board of Intellectual Property and Advertising Law. She was previously a member of the Advisory Board of the Dutch Data Protection Authority.

In her research, Van Eechoud focuses on, among other things, the regulation of open data and public information sources from the perspective of transparency, innovation and fundamental communication rights; international and European intellectual property law (in particular copyright and database law); and international private law aspects of information law.