As Senior Director, Data Privacy of 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 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, and emerging technologies).
Noris has 26 years of experience as regional compliance, technology policy, and regulatory affairs counsel and 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.
He is former Asia and European International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP) Advisory Board and Diversity in Privacy Section IAPP Advisory Board member. Noris engage with African Data Protection Authorities in African Data Protection Authorities (NADPA)-RAPDP conference, global Data Protection Authorities (DPAs) in the Global Privacy Assembly (GPA), the Mobile World Congress (MWC) Barcelona and Kigali, the GSMA Capacity Building training, and in-country advocacy workshop. Noris holds Practitioner Certificate in Data Protection (PC.dp), CIPP/A, LLM in Information Technology and Telecommunications Laws, University of Strathclyde (as Chevening alumnus), Privacy and Freedom of Information fellowship, Fordham and George Washington Law Schools (as Fulbright Professional Exchange alumnus) and Oxford Scenarios Planning, University of Oxford.