Mission

Bernold's mission is to work on crossovers between university, government and industry to develop practical solutions for wicked problems.

Current activities on cybersecurity & digital autonomy

Bernold is director of the Centre of the Law and Economics of Cyber Security (CLECS) at Erasmus University Rotterdam. Within CLECS he initiated the CSAR-Index and the Dutch Cyber Security Lab (Download position Paper #1, #2, and #3). Bernold published in amongst others the Dutch Financial Times, NRC-Handelsblad, Binnenlands Bestuur, iBestuur and is columnist for Data Cyber Security & Privacy.

Academic background

In 2011, he was participant at the Dutch National Think Tank. In 2013, he obtained degrees in law at Utrecht University (Cum Laude) and systems engineering, policy analysis and management at Delft University of Technology. In 2018, he obtained his doctorate in the law and economics of cyber security at the European Doctorate of Law & Economics (Erasmus University Rotterdam, University of Hamburg and University of Bologna).

Other interests

- Labour market innovations, especially regarding job-job mobility and technical professionals

- Retirement policies

- Democracy and the Dutch "Poldermodel".

Entrepreneurship

In 2011, Bernold founded the InvestMens foundation, that aims to promote intersectoral job-job mobility in the Netherlands.

Academic work

A selection of the scientific publications of Bernold can be found here . He published two books about cybersecurity at Delex Publishers.

Contact

You can contact Bernold via LinkedIn or via bernold[at]bernoldnieuwesteeg.nl.

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