General Counsel-Hong Kong, CLP Power Hong Kong Limited
| E | laine Chong is the General Counsel-Hong Kong of CLP Power Hong Kong Limited. She leads the company’s legal team and is responsible for the |
company’s legal work, its intellectual property portfolio, government affairs and compliance work. Since becoming General Counsel in March 2002, Elaine has helped spearhead the establishment of an enterprise record management system and in overseeing the company’s compliance system. Her extensive practice also covers a range of corporate, regulatory, planning and environmental, banking and employment law. Elaine holds an MA degree in law from the University of Cambridge. She qualified as a Hong Kong solicitor in 1994 and a graduate of the Hong Kong Institute of Chartered Secretaries in 2006. Prior to joining CLP Power, she was with Allen & Overy and Baker & McKenzie in Hong Kong.
Central to CLP’s success has been our firm commitment to a set of business principles and ethics that help drive our company forward. As a responsible utility company in Hong Kong, this includes respect for people and privacy that begins with how we protect data from our customers, staff and move through our relations with investors, business partners and the wider communities. From a business practitioner perspective, we would like to share our journey of redesigning privacy into existing systems across our enterprise, how we engage our staff to increase alertness and vigilance and deploy technology to manage data and guard against data leakages. Using privacy by design approach, we are committed to establishing good governance over data and creating a responsible and secured environment for data management.
