Adrian Mak

Adrian Mak Chief of Staff for Global Affairs at AI Safety Asia, an NGO, and is a fellow at the Stanford Law AI Initiative. His work focuses on the intersection of AI law and policy, data governance, and dispute resolution, including co-editing “Privacy and Personal Data Protection Law in Asia” (Hart Publishing) and contributing to “The Cambridge Handbook of Private Law and Artificial Intelligence” (Cambridge University Press). Adrian also works in international disputes, being a director (on academic leave) at a dispute resolution boutique, appointed as a Panel Arbitrator in the Republic of Uzbekistan and as a Specialist Mediator at the Singapore International Mediation Center. He served as a resource person to the Asian Development Bank to strengthen dispute resolution capacities across Asia-Pacific judiciaries and arbitral institutions. He is qualified in New York and Hong Kong, having graduated from The University of Hong Kong with a Bachelor of Social Sciences (Government and Laws) and Bachelor of Laws and from Stanford Law School with a Master of Laws.