Data Breaches: Are You Ready?

Prof. Abu Bakar Munir
Renowned scholar, Expert and Consultant on Cyber Law and Data Protection Law

Professor Abu Bakar Munir is an internationally renowned scholar, expert and consultant on Cyber Law and Data Protection Law. He was a Professor of Law at the Faculty of Law, University of Malaya. He was a Visiting Professor at the Atmajaya University, Jakarta. He is currently an Adviser and Expert Council Member of the Pandya Astagina Institute. He is also the Legal Adviser and Data Protection Consultant to the Straits Interactive Private Ltd., Singapore, Senior Adviser to the Schinder Law Firm, Jakarta, a member of the Academic Advisory Council of the Asia Pacific Institute for Digital Economy, (APIDE) Tokyo, and a member of the Asian Privacy Scholars Network (APSN), Australia. He is the co-founder and director of the Bali International Arbitration and Mediation Center and the founder and Principal Consultant of the Data Protection Sdn. Bhd.

Professor Abu Bakar is the author of several books; Privatization (1992), Cyberlaw: Policies and Challenges (1999), Privacy and Data Protection (2002), Internet Banking: Law and Practice (2004), and Information and Communication Technology Law: State, Internet and Information (2010), Personal Data Protection in Malaysia: Law and Practice (2010), Data Protection Law in Asia (2014) and Data Protection Law in Asia (second edition 2018).
He also widely publishes numerous articles on several aspects of ICT law and data protection law. He speaks extensively at seminars, workshop and conferences around the world including those organised/hosted by universities such as the NUS, Oxford, Cambridge, MIT, etc. Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Yahoo are amongst the participants of his talks and presentations. He represented Asia in the Europe – Asia Dialogue on the Digital Economy at the Johns Hopkins University in Washington D.C.

Professor Abu Bakar Munir has been far and wide consulted by the governments and private entities in Malaysia and around the globe. Amongst the companies are TM, Chartis Insurance, POS Malaysia, PKNS, CIMB, ELM of Saudi Arabia and many more.

He was appointed the Adviser to the Government of Malaysia and was instrumental in the crafting and passing of the Malaysian Personal Data Protection Act 2010. He was seconded as the IT Law Adviser and Principal Consultant to the Government of Dubai, UAE where he led an international team of consultants in developing and drafting several IT legislations to facilitate the Dubai Internet City, a multi-billion-dollar IT project. He is currently assisting the Government of Indonesia in developing the personal data protection law for the country.

He was a Council Member of the Asia Pacific Privacy Charter Council (APPCC) and the recipient of the Malaysia Cyber Security Awards (Minister’s Award) 2010 and the Malaysia Cyber Security, (Information Security Visionary of the Year) Award 2010. His other areas of specialization include the Air and Space Law, Child law, Evidence Law, Nanotechnology Law and Policy, and Renewable Energy Law and Policy. He has published numerous articles on these subjects. His work, “Renewables: Solar Energy Needs Focus” was published in Nature in January 2016.