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Malcolm Crompton Biography
Malcolm Crompton is Managing Director of Information Integrity Solutions P/L, providing high level advice to private sector and public sector organisations on building trust through excellent data governance, particularly in their collection and use of personal information. He is also Principal of The Trust Dimension.
He was Australia’s third Federal Privacy Commissioner for five years until April 2004. He led the implementation of private sector privacy law that commenced in 2001. He has established a global reputation for his forward thinking on the handling and governance of personal information and has been the invited speaker at many events in North America, Europe and Asia as well as Australia.
Malcolm is currently adviser to APEC on the APEC privacy framework implementation seminars. The first was held in Hong Kong in June 2005 and the second in Korea in September.
He is also a member of the global External Advisory Board of the IBM Privacy Institute, the Reference Group for the Privacy and Identity Management for Europe (PRIME) project, the Expert Advisory Committee on Information Technology of the Australian Medical Association; and was a member of the Western Australian Bioethics Working Party that is looking into the further linkage of health data sets in the State. He has been a member of a number of privacy award judging panels.
While Commissioner, Malcolm was also a member of the National Health Information Advisory Council; the Review of the DNA forensic procedures set out in Part 1D of Commonwealth Crimes Act 1914; and the Advisory Committee to the Joint ALRC/AHEC Inquiry into Protection of Human Genetic Information. He hosted the 25th International Conference of Data Protection & Privacy Commissioners in Sydney in 2003.
Between 1996 and 1999, he was Manager of Government Affairs in Canberra 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. He started his career as a research scientist.
Malcolm’s work was recognised in 2004 when he was awarded the inaugural Chancellor’s Medal for distinguished contribution to the Australian National University. He has degrees in Chemistry and Economics.