Maggie Meng

Introduction

Maggie Meng, a partner at Global Law Office, is a co-chairman of the International Association of Privacy Professionals Beijing. Her main practice areas are cyber and data security, personal information and privacy protection, and e-commerce and digital economy compliance.

She has extensive expertise and proficiency in delivering data compliance advice and related services to domestic and foreign enterprises in industries such as the internet, artificial intelligence, connected vehicles and autonomous vehicles, the internet of things, communications, cloud computing services, internet data centres, e-commerce and retail, fintech, health care and life sciences, transportation and infrastructure, advertising and marketing, big data, etc. She has extensive experience and expertise in assisting clients in improving their data compliance capabilities and enhancing strategies, interpreting data protection related legal/regulatory requirements, analysing and evaluating the potential impact on business operations, guiding the personal information and data security management process, communicating and co-ordinating with government and regulatory agencies, and assisting in the implementation of security measures or data localisation requirements.

Meng has more than 17 years of internal and external legal service experience. She previously worked at a well-known law firm, served as the chief counsel of a Fortune 500 multinational company and a global unicorn company, and as the general counsel, director of government relations affairs and data protection officer of a domestic AI unicorn company.

She ranked in the Legal 500 leading lawyers in data protection, technology, media and telecommunications, fintech, regulation and compliance; Chambers Greater China Region recommended lawyer in data privacy protection and TMT; Legalband recommended lawyer in cybersecurity and data compliance, consumer and retail, automotive and new energy, digital economy, etc.; ALB China’s Top 15 Cybersecurity and Data Protection Lawyers; and as an Asialaw and a Benchmark Litigation “star” in the areas of government and regulation.

She translated data protection laws of the US, Europe, India, Brazil, Russia and other countries, authored hundreds of professional articles and commentaries in major journals and public magazines over a long period of time, co-edited a number of national/industry standards, co-edited or independently compiled a number of reports, and co-authored the practitioner’s guide book, Data Compliance – Introduction, Practice and Advancement.