Malcolm Crompton is Managing Director of Information Integrity Solutions Pty Ltd (IIS), a global consultancy specialising in data protection and privacy strategies. IIS assists companies increase business value and customer trust and ensures government meets the high standards expected in the handling of personal information.
Malcolm is a Director of the International Association of Privacy Professionals Australia New Zealand (iappANZ), an affiliate of the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP). He was founding President of iappANZ in 2008, a Director of IAPP from 2007 to 2011 and is an IAPP Certified Information Privacy Professional. Malcolm's global reputation and expertise in privacy was recognised when IAPP honoured Malcolm with the 2012 Privacy Leadership Award.
As Australia's Privacy Commissioner from 1999 to 2004, Malcolm led the implementation of private sector privacy law. He hosted the 25th International Conference of Data Protection and Privacy Commissioners in Sydney in 2003. Malcolm's global reputation is built on his forward thinking on the handling and governance of personal information and he has consequently been invited to speak at many events in the Americas, Europe and Asia Pacific.
Through IIS, Malcolm has advised the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum (APEC) regularly on implementation of the APEC privacy framework, including leading seminars held in Hong Kong, Korea and Australia. He has also consulted to the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and a wide range of industry sectors, including, technology and telecommunications, health, banking, finance, credit reporting and insurance, education, professional services, transport and parcel services, mining and manufacturing, travel and retail and government.
He is 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 through the European Commission. Malcolm is also a Director of Bellberry Limited, a private not-for-profit company which provides privacy and health ethics advisory services and is a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.
Between 1996 and 1999, Malcolm was Manager of Government Affairs 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. Malcolm has degrees in Chemistry and Economics and was awarded the inaugural Chancellor's Medal for distinguished contribution to the Australian National University.