Mrs Drudeisha Madhub was appointed Data Protection Commissioner of the Data Protection Office of Mauritius since August 2007. Prior to her appointment, she was Senior State Counsel at the Attorney General’s Office for six and a half years. She is a respected member of various international networks. She was appointed data protection and human rights expert by Interpol and a member of the Commission for the Control of Interpol’s Files from 2011 to 2018 with the specific function of judging data protection and human rights issues in Interpol’s cases.
Mrs Madhub was also appointed as UN Emeritus expert, joining the UN Global Pulse Data Advisory Group in 2014 to provide expert advice on data protection. She was further elected President of Association Francophone des Autorités de Protection des Données Personelles (AFAPDP) from October 2024 to October 2027.In May 2025, she was also elected Chair of the African Union Data Governance Committee and Co-Chair of Common Thread Network (CTN). She is the author of the book ‘THE COSMOS WITHIN MY SOUL CAPTURED’:- A COMPILATION OF 152 QUOTES AND POEMS.