Malcolm Crompton
Founder & Lead Privacy Advisor, Information Integrity Solutions Pty Ltd (IIS)
Malcolm Crompton is Founder and Lead Privacy Advisor at Information Integrity Solutions Pty Ltd (IIS), a global consultancy specialising in data protection and privacy strategies. His global reputation is built on forward thinking about the handling and governance of personal information.
As Australia’s Privacy Commissioner from 1999 to 2004, Malcolm led the implementation of the nation’s first broad based private sector privacy law.
He is also Chairman and a founding Director of Praxis Australia Limited and has been a director of Bellberry Limited since 2006, two not for profit companies providing ethics committee services and training for research on humans.
Malcolm was founding President of the International Association of Privacy Professionals Australia New Zealand in 2008 and director until 2016. He was a director of the US based IAPP until 2011.
He has been a member advisory bodies around the world, including the European Union, OECD and APEC since 2003 as well as large global companies such as Microsoft and IBM.
Malcolm has degrees in Chemistry and Economics, is a Certified Information Privacy Professional and is a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.
He was made a Member of the Order of Australia in the 2016 Queen’s Birthday Honours for significant service to public administration, particularly to data protection, privacy, and identity management, and to the community. Malcolm received the 2012 Privacy Leadership Award in Washington DC from the IAPP in recognition of his global reputation and expertise in privacy. He received the inaugural Chancellor’s Medal for distinguished contribution to the Australian National University in 2004.