Mr. Allan CHIANG, SBS
Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data, Office of the Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data, Hong Kong

Allan assumed office as the Privacy Commissioner in 2010 and has successfully tackled a number of important and high profile privacy cases in Hong Kong. Since 2011 he has adopted an explicit policy of naming organisations for breaches of data privacy, thus enhancing enforcement effectiveness by invoking the sanction and discipline of public scrutiny.

Allan assisted the Government in a major overhaul of the data protection legislation, which culminated in the enactment of the Personal Data (Privacy)(Amendment) Ordinance in 2012.

Allan has succeeded in convincing the Government and the banking, insurance and telecommunications sectors not to treat privacy and data protection merely as a compliance issue, but to embrace them as part of corporate governance to win the trust of citizens or customers. Many reputable organisations have as a result adopted accountability practices recommended by him.