Edyta Bielak-Jomaa was born on 10 May 1972 in Sandomierz. She is a graduate of the Faculty of Law and Administration of the University of Lodz. In 2003 she obtained her doctoral degree in law and was employed as an assistant professor at the Labour Law Department of the Faculty of Law and Administration at the University of Lodz. From 2012 to April 2015, she was the Head of Postgraduate Studies in Personal Data Protection at the Faculty of Law and Administration, and from 2013 she was the Head of Personal Data Protection and Information Management Centre. Between 2015-2019 she served as Inspector General for Personal Data Protection.
She has been a lecturer on data protection, labour law and foreign labour migration. She acted as a supervisor of the Interdepartmental Student Association on Disability Rights, conducted trainings within the International Women's Foundation and a series of trainings organised for employees and employers of the region "Different but equal" on equal treatment and discrimination in the labour market.
She has organised conferences and debates on personal data issues, such as: "Medical data - limits of use and protection", "Personal data protection in the activities of Churches and other religious associations", "Personal data protection and journalistic activities - limits of media privilege", "Personal data protection and the exercise of legal professions", "Personal data protection and elections", "Judge - public or private person? Limits of access to public information and personal data protection" (co-organised by the President of the Court of Appeal in Łódź and the Łódź Branch of the IUSTITIA Association of Polish Judges).
Dr Edyta Bielak-Jomaa is the author of more than 30 studies on labour law, labour market issues and personal data protection.
Her research interests include, in particular, the protection of employees' personal rights and the protection of personal data. She was the first to initiate research on the protection of personal data of unemployed people and jobseekers.
She has been a member of the Board of the Warsaw New Tech University Foundation since 2021.