Speaker Bio
Irish is the Chief Privacy Officer and Vice President for Governance, Risk, and Compliance of Globe Telecom's Information Security and Data Privacy Group and Artificial Intelligence Group.
She is a Certified Information Privacy Manager with the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP) and completed the Data: Law, Policy, and Regulation course of the London School of Economics in 2022. She was IAPP's KnowledgeNet Philippines Chapter Chair from 2021-2022 and was a member of the IAPP’s Women Leading Privacy Advisory Board from 2023-2024. She currently serves as a member of the IAPP’s Asia Advisory Board.
Irish began her professional career in Philippine law firms where she specialized in civil, commercial, and criminal litigation before shifting to public policy. She was part of the USAID Trade-Related Assistance for Development (TRADE) Project where she worked with industry pioneers toward the passage of the Philippine Competition Act. She then joined Uber and Grab where she advocated for ride-hailing legislation.
As a mother of three young children, children’s privacy and online safety are among Irish’s personal advocacies. She participates in Globe’s programs to promote digital literacy and to prevent online sexual abuse and exploitation of children, cyberbullying, fraudulent spam and scam activities, and other unlawful schemes that are rampant in the digital space today.