As Senior Director of Data Privacy, Policy and Regulation at the GSMA, Noriswadi Ismail (Noris) serves as global lead, expert and thought leader on data protection and privacy issues and as primary point of contact for all GSMA advocacy related questions and developments. He’s also representing GSMA externally with government, regulators, and other key stakeholders to advance GSMA policy positions and influence policymakers and regulators globally in all privacy and data protection issues (including but not limited to the intersection between AI, cybersecurity, blockchain, IoT, edge and quantum computing).

Prior to the GSMA, Noris spent 9 years as a regional compliance, technology policy, and regulatory affairs counsel for a leading systems integrator in Malaysia (as IIUM alumnus), and over 16 years in global consulting firms as GDPR, EMEA & APAC and Global Data Privacy practice leader, practitioner, fractional Data Protection Officer, and AI Responsibility Leader in London.