Michelle Bonk is an associate at BHO Legal specializing in IT and data protection law. She studied law at the University of Bayreuth, focusing on markets in the digital world. Her seminar paper was on quality requirements for storage clouds. In 2017, she obtained a Certificate of Higher Education in English Law from the University of Birmingham.

Ms. Bonk completed her legal training in the district of the Higher Regional Court of Rostock. Among other things, she worked at a boutique law firm specializing in media law/competition and intellectual property in Hamburg and at a medium-sized law firm specializing in IT/IP.

As a lawyer and certified data protection officer (Bitkom Academy), Michelle Bonk primarily advises clients in the field of IT and data protection law, with a particular focus on health data. Among other things, she wrote an expert opinion on the admissibility of a data processing model for processing patient data for research purposes without consent.

In addition, Ms. Bonk led data protection impact assessments for the public sector in the course of the introduction of cloud software solutions.