Maria Kalliopi Kanellopoulou - Botti

Maria Bottis is an Attorney-at-law and an Associate Professor, School of Information Science and Informatics, DALMS, Ionian University. She graduated from Arsakeion High School of Patras with High Honors (20/20 graduation certificate, first of class) and had been under full tuition scholarship throughout high school. In 1985, she topped the Greek National examinations for entrance in all Universities/all disciplines with 1998 points over 2000, and entered in Athens Law School first. She is a Honors graduate of Athens Law School (graduated first of class). She is a holder of a LL.M degree (Cambridge Law School UK) a LL.M degree from Yale Law School and a PhD on medical information law and ethics from the University of Athens. She was accepted by Harvard Law School for LLM studies in 1993. She was appointed Faculty Fellow at Harvard University, Center for Ethics and the Professions (2000-2001). She has been awarded scholarships from NATO, the Onassis Foundation, IKY (the Greek National Scholarships Foundation), the Rotary Club of Athens, the Yale Law School, Harvard and Clare Hall, Cambridge.

Maria Bottis has served as an elected Co-Director of the International Society for Ethics and Technology (elected in 2014 for the period 2014-2018) and in the INSEIT board meeting of 22.6.2015, she was appointed as (the sole) Director of INSEIT. She has authored and edited eighteen works (books-monographs). She is also the author of more than 80 Greek and international publications on computer and information law/ethics, data protection, digital divide, library ethics, privacy medical/health law and others. She is a EU expert called in missions in Europe and beyond. She is the founder of the International Conference on Information Law and Ethics (ICIL) series, from 2008 onwards, of the Athens Data Protection Colloquium (with Dr. Fereniki Panagopoulou-Koutnatzi) and of the Medical Responsibility and Ethics (MRBE) conference series (with Dr. Fereniki Panagopoulou-Koutnatzi). She has been the organizer or numerous symposiums, seminars, colloquiums e.tc. She has delivered more than sixty speeches, presentations, lectures in Greece and abroad. She is the Head of the Research Team 'Information: History, Regulation and Culture'. She is a member of the management committee and/or working group member of several EU actions representing Greece.

In 2016, she was elected Director of the Graduate Program of DALMS, Ionian University. Ιn 2015, Maria Bottis was appointed member of the IEEE Global Initiative Personal Data Committee. Ιn 2016, she was appointed member of the UNESCO executive committee on bioethics of Greece and member of the Scientific Committee of Digital Services of the National Library of Greece. The Greek Unit of the UNESCO Chair in Bioethics (Haifa)