When elected for a two-year term as head of the body, she would transfer her extensive seven-year experience in police oversight and protection of individuals' rights on the national level as information commissioner to the European level.

The Joint Supervisory Body is Europol's independent data protection supervisor, which has been set up as a safeguard that Europol complies with personal data protection regulation and to ensure the rights of individuals in the handling and exchange of Europol's vast amount of information about EU citizens.