Marju Lauristin - Biography#

Marju Lauristin, PhD (b. 1940) is professor emeritus of Tartu University and Doctor Honoris Causa of Helsinki University. She had been teaching media theories, sociological theories, strategic management and political communication. Her main area of studies is social, political and cultural transformation of post-communist societies and social dimensions of digital transformation. Marju Lauristin has been Minister of Social Affairs in the first post-Communist government of Estonia in 1992-1994. She had been member of Estonian parliament in 1994-95 and 1999-2003 and member of the European Parliament in 2014-2017. As a MEP she had been appointed a shadow rapporteur of GDPR and rapporteur of e-privacy regulation.

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