Malcolm Crompton AM is Founder and Founder at IIS Partners, iispartners.com. Malcolm was Australia’s Privacy Commissioner from 1999 to 2004 and led implementation of the nation’s first broad based private sector privacy law.
He has sat on advisory bodies in Australia and around the world, including the European Union, OECD, APEC and large global companies.
The federal Minister for Government Services has appointed Malcolm to her Independent Advisory Board. In 2023-24, he was on a small Expert Panel advising the Minister for Finance on the Digital ID Bill. He is also a member of the Palantir Council of Advisors on Privacy and Civil Liberties (PCAP).
He is currently advising the Australian Bureau of Statistics on privacy for the 2026 Census.
Malcolm is co-author of The New Governance of Data and Privacy: Moving from compliance to performance, AICD, November 2018. His published papers cover data privacy, accounting research on valuing data, identity management, public management reform and peptide sequencing using NMR spectroscopy.
Malcolm is a Member of the Order of Australia in 2016 recognising significant service to public administration, particularly to data protection, privacy, and identity management, and to the community. Malcolm received the IAPP 2012 Privacy Leadership Award in Washington DC recognising his global reputation and expertise in privacy.
Malcolm has degrees in Chemistry and Economics. He is a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and an IAPP Certified Information Privacy Professional.