Chantal Vets

Chantal Vets is the Senior Legal Director responsible for the Privacy Global Program at Medtronic, with over 11 years of legal and privacy experience in the medical technology industry. She works on the global level to develop, implement, and enhance a centralised corporate-wide global data protection and privacy program meeting the legal, regulatory and business requirements. In addition, through her work, she aims to further mature data stewardship models and cultural commitment to ethical data practices that enhance innovation in a compliant manner. These different responsibilities require an understanding of how to manoeuvre the regulatory landscape. To this end, Chantal actively monitors the development of privacy laws and regulations while considering their potential impact on the business model and identifying possible advocacy initiatives. Chantal has been an active member in MedTech Europe since 2015 as an alternate member of the Legal Affairs Committee, becoming a chair of the Data Protection Committee in 2017 and Vice-Chair of the Data Governance Working Group since 2022.