LEE, Hyeong Gun (이형근)

Managing Partner, Lee & Ko

Professor KIM, Beomsoo (김범수)

Professor, Graduate School of Information, Yonsei University

KO, Hwan Kyoung (고환경)

Partner and Head of the Tech & AI team, Lee & Ko

LEE, Jinkyu (이진규)

Chief Privacy Officer, Naver Corp

Director-General YANG, Cheongsam (양청삼)

Director-General for Personal Information Policy, Personal Information Protection Commission

Director-General UHM, Yul (엄열)

Director-General for AI Policy Bureau, Ministry of Science and ICT

Vice Chairperson CHOI, Jang Hyuk (최장혁)

Vice Chairman, Personal Information Protection Commission

Deputy Minister KANG, Dohyun (강도현)

Deputy Minister, Ministry of Science and ICT

Melinda Claybaugh

Privacy Policy Director, Meta

Melinda Claybaugh is a Director of Privacy Policy at Meta.  She works to achieve Meta’s vision of globally-consistent privacy and data regulations that protect people’s data while enabling innovation—by leading advocacy on specific legislative proposals, while also helping design policy solutions for complicated or novel issues, including AI governance and immersive technology.  She has represented Meta at international convenings, including the OECD and the IGF, as well as regularly advocating with government stakeholders around the world.  She previously spent 12 years at the Federal Trade Commission, where she worked in the Division of Privacy and Identity Protection on enforcement actions related to consumer privacy.  Melinda later joined the FTC’s Office of International Affairs, where she specialized in international digital policy. She represented the United States in discussions at the OECD, the UN, and in APEC, where she helped design global frameworks to enhance consumer privacy protections and strengthen enforcement cooperation among data protection authorities.

Eunice Huang

Head of AI and Emerging Tech Policy, Asia-Pacific, Google

Eunice Huang leads Google’s AI and emerging tech policy work in the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region. She engages governments and other stakeholders on the responsible development and deployment of AI through enabling policy and regulation. Prior to her current role, Eunice led Google’s digital trade efforts in Asia-Pacific and played a pivotal role in shaping global trade policy at the World Trade Organization (WTO). 

A former diplomat and trade negotiator, Eunice was in the Singapore Government’s premier Administrative Service before coming to Google. She has experience across a diverse range of policy issues, including foreign policy, energy, trade and investment, and held senior appointments as Singapore’s Deputy Ambassador to the WTO and WIPO, and Regional Vice President of the Singapore Economic Development Board. 

Eunice is a graduate of the University of Michigan and Oxford University.

Christina Montgomery

Vice President and Chief Privacy & Trust Officer, IBM

Christina Montgomery is Vice President and Chief Privacy & Trust Officer for IBM, overseeing the company’s global privacy program, compliance, and strategy. She also chairs IBM’s AI Ethics Board, a multi-disciplinary team responsible for the governance of AI and emerging technologies. Christina has served in various roles at IBM, including Corporate Secretary to the Board of Directors. A global leader in AI Ethics and governance, Christina is a member of the United States’ National AI Advisory Committee (NAIAC), established in 2022 to advise the U.S. President and the National AI Initiative Office on a range of topics related to AI. She is also an Advisory Board Member of the Future of Privacy Forum (FPF), Advisory Council Member of the Center for Information Policy Leadership (CIPL), and a member of the Board of Directors and the AI Governance Advisory Board for the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP). She received a B.A. from Binghamton University and a J.D. from Harvard Law School.

Kwang Bae Park

Senior Fellow, Global, FPF

Kwang Bae PARK is a senior partner and leader of the Technology, Media, and Telecommunications (TMT) group, as well as head of the Data Privacy and Cybersecurity (DPC) practice at Lee & Ko in South Korea. With over 25 years of experience, he has represented and advised a broad range of foreign and domestic companies, focusing on various TMT and DPC issues. His expertise includes telecommunications, media, e-commerce, internet content and advertising, IT outsourcing, data privacy compliance, and data breach litigations, including some of Korea’s largest cases. Recognized since 2008 by legal institutions like Asia Law, Chambers Asia, Legal500 and The International Who’s Who Legal, Park is a leading lawyer in TMT and DPC. He was awarded the National Medal of Merit in the ICT Sector by the President of the Republic of Korea in 2013. Park has contributed to over 30 articles and numerous speeches on TMT and DPC topics, especially on cross- border issues. In addition to his legal practice, he has been served in various public and private sector roles, including as an outside director for the Korea Internet & Security Agency (KISA) and the Korea Data Agency (K-Data). Park is admitted to practice in Korea and New York and is fluent in Korean and English.

Josh Lee Kok Thong

Managing Director for APAC, FPF

Josh is deeply passionate in the issues at the intersection of law, policy and technology, and is a changemaker in the spheres of the law of tech, and the tech of law.

As a legal architect that hopes to re-shape relationships disrupted by technology, Josh is the Managing Director, Asia-Pacific of the Future of Privacy Forum. In this role, he leads a team furthering FPF’s mission of advancing data protection best practices and the trusted development and use of emerging technologies in the region.

Josh received his LL.M. from the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law in 2022, where he was named to the Dean’s List for his academic achievements. Josh was also a Richard Buxbaum International Graduate Fellow and a White & Case Kathryn Aguirre Worth Scholar. An active contributor to Berkeley Law’s student body, Josh served as the LL.M. Editor of the Berkeley Technology Law Journal and co-founded B-LIT, Berkeley’s first legal innovation student organisation.

Before postgraduate studies, Josh served for half a decade in the Singapore Government. More recently, he was the Legal Policy Manager for Artificial Intelligence (AI) Governance in Singapore’s Personal Data Protection Commission, where he managed Singapore’s overall AI governance policies. Before that, Josh was an Assistant Director for Legal Policy in the Ministry of Law, where he drove criminal and civil legislative reform, particularly in technology and online harms. He also practiced as an international arbitration lawyer in a large Singaporean law firm.

As a driver of the tech of law, Josh is the first Chairperson of the Asia-Pacific Legal Innovation and Technology Association (https://alita.legal), a pan-regional industry platform driving legal innovation and technology initiatives in the region. Josh also co-founded LawTech.Asia (https://lawtech.asia) and etpl.asia, organizations that advance thought leadership on law and technology in Asia. In 2019, Josh was identified by Asia Law Portal as one of Asia’s Top 30 Persons to Watch in the business of law.

In addition, Josh is a member of Singapore’s Law Reform Subcommittee for Robotics and AI, where he authored a law reform report on “Criminal Liability, Robots and AI Systems”.  Josh was also a chapter co-author of Law and Technology in Singapore, which was edited by Professor Simon Chesterman, Professor Goh Yihan, and Judge of Appeal Andrew Phang. Given his keen interest in new technologies like AI and its potential impacts on society and governance, Josh is also a voting member of the IEEE P2863 Working Group on Organisational Governance of AI Systems, and holds research roles in the National University of Singapore and the Singapore Management University. He speaks regularly at conferences and dialogues in the law of tech and tech of law ecosystems.