Nick Schneider leads the division on new technologies and data use at the German Federal Ministry of Health and is a passionate advocate for the European Health Data Space (EHDS), secure access to health data for the improvement of research, healthcare and technological development as well as trustworthy AI for the benefit of EU citizens. 
In recent years, his team has played a key role in putting secondary use of health data on the agenda of the German Presidency of the Council of the EU in 2020, and in leading the negotiations for the EHDS and national legislation on secure and data protection-friendly access to health data at federal level. The National Health Data Use Act (GDNG), which came into force in spring 2024, paves the way for the EHDS and easier use of health data for health research and development in Germany. 
He was born and raised in Latin America and studied medicine in Heidelberg. After working in health policy for the European Medical Students' Association (EMSA) and the Standing Committee of European Doctors (CPME) in Brussels, as well as several years of research and research management at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) and the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), he joined the Federal Ministry of Health in 2011, where he inter alia coordinated the negotiations on the EU General Data Protection Regulation and its implementation in health law at federal level.