The German-Saudi Arabian Liaison Office for Economic Affairs (GESALO) and Hundt & Partners are pleased to invite you to the webinar "Understanding the KSA Personal Data Protection Law – How is it Different from the European GDPR?” on June 11, 2024.

Date: June 11, 2024

Location: via Zoom conference call

Time: 11.00am - 12.00 pm (Riyadh time) | German time: 10.00am - 11.00am | Malaysia time: 4.00pm

Register here: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_kVSqSc8bRIunRuSPS_r7ow 

About the webinar:

On 15 September 2024, the Saudi Personal Data Protection Law  (PDPL) will be fully implemented including hefty penalties of up to several million SAR that apply in case of non-compliance. To help businesses operationalize the new law in a most efficient way, Hundt & Partners will provide a wealth of practical suggestions and hints while at the same time drawing a comparison between the PDPL and the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) of the European Union (which has inspired the Saudi legislation to some extent).

Speakers

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

Jochen Hundt, Managing Partner, Legal Consultant, Hundt & Partners

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About Prof. Abu Bakar Munir

Professor Abu Bakar Munir is an internationally renowned scholar, expert and consultant on Cyber Law and Data Protection Law. He is a Professor of Law and has been appointed as the Holder of Tun Ismail Mohamed Ali Chair at the Faculty of Law, University of Malaya, Malaysia. He was an Adjunct Professor at the International Islamic University.

He is the author of several books: 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 has published more than 400 articles in the reputable journals on the subjects of cyberlaw, data protection law and his other areas of expertise.

He speaks extensively at seminars, workshops 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 where he shared the same dais with Dr. Vinton G. Cerf, recognized as one of the fathers of the Internet.

Professor Abu Bakar Munir has been far and wide consulted by the governments and private entities around the globe. He was appointed as 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 was consulted by the Government of Saudi Arabia to provide his expert opinion on the draft law on personal data protection.  He submitted his expert opinion on the Singapore draft law on data protection.  He was instrumental in developing the draft law on personal data protection for the Republic of Indonesia.

In Saudi Arabia, Professor Abu Bakar Munir has joined the team of Hundt & Partners as an of-counsel.

About Jochen Hundt 

is a German legal consultant and entrepreneur, founder of the firm Hundt & Partners Legal and Business Advisory. Jochen studied law in France, first in Montpellier (LL.B in private law) and then in Strasbourg (LL.M in business law), later at the University of Sussex in the United Kingdom (LL.M with distinction in international commercial law). After practising for one year in Dubai, UAE, he shifted to Riyadh, Saudi Arabia where he soon launched his own practice in cooperation with various local partners. In 2011, he established Hundt Legal, a consulting firm registered in the UAE and operating in Saudi Arabia through local alliances. The current cooperation partner is Saudi lawyer Nouf Al-Qhtani, who had joined Hundt Legal in 2018 and founded its litigation practice. In 2020, Hundt Legal then acquired the MENA practice of German consulting group Scheer whereby Hundt Legal rebranded into Hundt & Partners. Today, as one of three managing partners overseeing a team of ten professionals, Jochen is running Hundt & Partners’ transactional legal practice out of the firm’s Riyadh office (the contentious legal practice is also based in Riyadh whereas the management consulting practice is run out of Jeddah).

Jochen has co-authored several investment and legal guides and has published dozens of articles in regional and international reviews. He is a frequent speaker at events in the Gulf region, in Europe and beyond. He is also a founding member of several lawyers' and business organizations. In Saudi Arabia, Jochen is advising over a dozen embassies and foreign trade missions. On several occasions, he was called to provide legal advice to the Saudi Arabian government. Jochen is fluent in English, French, German, and Arabic.