EXECUTIVE PROFILE
Malcolm Crompton - MD
Malcolm Crompton is Managing Director of Information Integrity Solutions Pty Ltd, providing high-level advice to private sector and public sector organisations on building trust through excellent data governance, particularly in their collection and use of personal information. He is also Director of Bellberry Limited, a private not-for-profit organisation that provides health ethics committee services in accordance with the National Health and Medical Research Council Statement on Ethical Conduct in Research Involving Humans. He led the establishment of the Australia New Zealand affiliate of the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP), was its foundation President and currently serves on its Board.
He was Australia's Privacy Commissioner for five years until April 2004. He led the implementation of private sector privacy law that commenced in 2001. He has established a global reputation for his forward thinking on the handling and governance of personal information and has been the invited speaker at many events in both the Americas, Europe and Asia as well as Australia.
Malcolm has advised Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) regularly on implementation of the APEC privacy framework, including leading seminars held in Hong Kong and Korea in 2005 and Australia in 2007. He has also consulted to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), leading technology companies, Australian financial institutions and government agencies.
He is also a member of the Microsoft Trustworthy Computing Academic Advisory Board and a number of Reference Groups for research projects on trust in the Internet funded in the European Commission's Framework Programs 6 and 7. He has been a member of a number of international privacy award judging panels. He was the Asia Pacific based Director of IAPP between 2007 and 2011.
While Commissioner, Malcolm was also a member of the National Health Information Management Advisory Council; the Review of the DNA forensic procedures under Part 1D of Commonwealth Crimes Act 1914; and the Advisory Committee to the Joint ALRC/AHEC Inquiry into Protection of Human Genetic Information. He hosted the 25th International Conference of Data Protection and Privacy Commissioners in Sydney in 2003.
Between 1996 and 1999, Malcolm was Manager of Government Affairs in Canberra for AMP Ltd.
In the previous 20 years, Malcolm held senior executive positions in the Federal Department of Finance, served as both a superannuation scheme trustee and scheme founder and worked in the Transport and Health portfolios. He started his career as a research scientist.
Malcolm's work was recognised in 2004 when he was awarded the inaugural Chancellor's Medal for distinguished contribution to the Australian National University. He has degrees in Chemistry and Economics and is a Certified Information Privacy Professional through IAPP.
Malcolm blogs and comments on Open Forum (www.openforum.com.au).
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