mr. B. Zijlstra, MBA

Bettina Zijlstra is the Head of Project Office of the Security, Technology & e-Privacy (STeP) Research Group at the Faculty of Law of the University of Groningen.

Bettina holds a Masters degree in International and European Law (LL.M) and Business Administration (MBA). After receiving her BBA degree she followed a one year Leadership Program at the MorningStar University in Charlotte, NC, U.S. After gaining this international experience she continued her studies in the Netherlands with achieving the LL.M. degree in International and European Law. She wrote her Master’s thesis on: ‘The Whereabouts System and the Right to Privacy (of Athletes)’ at the department of European and Economic Law (University of Groningen). In October 2016 she started an Executive MBA programme leading to a MBA degree (University of Groningen) in December 2017.

During her years of studying Bettina has held fulltime (management) positions at different major companies gaining experience in the field of financial, administrative and project management. Since May 2010 she has been working at the University of Groningen and since December 2011 she works at the Faculty of Law of the University of Groningen.

Bettina is a certified PRINCE2 Practitioner.