Edsel F TUPAZ

Introduction

Anthony Edsel C F Tupaz is senior partner and heads data privacy, cybersecurity, and artificial intelligence (AI) Initiatives. He concurrently heads special projects.

Tupaz holds a master of laws (LLM) from Harvard Law School, Cambridge, Massachusetts, and a bachelor of arts in economics (honours program, cum laude; ranked 1st in academic standing in economics.) and juris doctor (St Thomas More Awardee; second honours) from the Ateneo de Manila University. Tupaz was managing technical editor of the Harvard Human Rights Journal.

Dual-qualified under the Philippine and New York State Bars, Tupaz is legal adviser to Fortune 500 and NASDAQ companies, and many of the most impactful technology startups in Asia. He is recognised by Chambers & Partners for being lead contributor of the practice guide for artificial intelligence (Philippines) and by The Legal 500 for TMT, banking & finance, and projects & energy.

In 2023, Tupaz was a member of the Philippine team selected as challenger for the Alan Turing Institute’s Data Challenge – Policy Priorities and AI for Sustainable Development Goals, which advances the intersection of sustainable development, AI, open government and computational social science.

At the 2023 Philippine Law Awards (Asian Legal Business/ Thomson Reuters), Tupaz received the accolade, Data Privacy & Protection Lawyer of the Year.

Tupaz is a certified information privacy professional – Europe (CIPP/E) and a certified information privacy manager (CIPM) under the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP). He holds a postgraduate certificate in data privacy, protection and operational excellence from the Asian Institute of Management.

With over 20 years in legal practice, Tupaz holds more than 10 years of experience in all three branches of government. Previously, Tupaz was a senior official at DPWH under Build Build Build. He served as a law clerk/speechwriter for a Philippine Chief Justice.

He has published close to 200 articles, opinion pieces at The Huffington Post, law journal articles, books, and papers, twice receiving citation from the Supreme Court for his scholarship on constitutional law. He taught in New England Law (Boston, Massachusetts), Ateneo de Manila Law School, De La Salle University, and Far Eastern University Institute of Law.