Ilia Siatitsa leads the strategic area of government surveillance for Privacy International (PI). Ilia also contributes to PI's legal strategy and is responsible for some of the organization's litigation and interventions before UK courts and the European Court of Human Rights. Ilia heads PI's project aimed at controlling mass surveillance to protect civic spaces. Ilia is a qualified lawyer in Greece and holds a PhD in international law from the University of Geneva's Faculty of Law, specializing in international human rights law and public international law.