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alfred-ij-tsai/README.md

I-Jung (Alfred) Tsai · 蔡易融

ROC-Qualified Attorney · Commercial Contracts & Privacy Compliance · Cross-Border Regulatory Analysis

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About

ROC-qualified attorney with 4 years of experience across public-sector digital governance and private-sector commercial legal practice.

  • Commercial contracts — Independently drafted and reviewed contracts across equity transactions, financing, licensing, and cross-border data arrangements, designing bespoke risk allocation for each transaction.
  • Cross-border regulatory analysis — Sole author of the legal analysis underpinning a government referral on a novel EU antitrust enforcement matter, delivered within a tight deadline.
  • International compliance — GDPR, APEC & Global CBPR, ISO 27001. Contributed Taiwan's written legal analysis to the multilateral drafting of the Global CBPR Forum's updated Program Requirements (expanded from 50 to 57), publicly released in March 2026.
  • Languages — English (TOEIC 980) and Mandarin (native).

Open to opportunities in privacy and commercial legal roles.


Experience

Privacy Law & Digital Governance Officer

National Development Council · Department of Regulatory Reform, Taipei Oct 2023 – Present

  • Sole case officer on a novel EU antitrust enforcement inquiry; produced independent statutory analysis served as the sole legal basis for a referral to Taiwan's Fair Trade Commission.
  • Reviewed PDPA compliance plans for government-supervised foundations, identifying cross-border transfer and special-category data risks; recommended formal enforcement where the statutory threshold was met.
  • Contributed Taiwan's written legal analysis across two drafting tranches of the Global CBPR Forum's Program Requirements update (50 → 57 requirements), including original positions on withdrawal of consent and AI training data; requirements publicly released by the Forum in March 2026.
  • Represented Chinese Taipei at the Global CBPR Forum General Assembly, Spring & Fall Workshops (Taipei, Singapore, Philippines), and the APEC Digital Economy Steering Group & Data Privacy Subgroup (Peru, South Korea).
  • Built the Council's first internal Personal Data Protection Regulation and Manual, enabling all 15 departments to run annual inventory and risk assessment independently.

Legal Researcher

Institute for Information Industry (III) · Science & Technology Law Institute, Taipei Jan 2023 – Oct 2023

  • Analyzed legal compliance for secondary use of the National Health Insurance database; findings submitted to the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Ministry of Health and Welfare as policy reference.
  • Conducted on-site personal data protection audits for retail and financial enterprises; earned ISO 27001:2022 Lead Auditor and MODA TPIPAS CPMP certifications.
  • Published 3 legal research articles on GDPR and Taiwan's PDPA in Science and Technology Law Review, spanning CJEU case law, cookie-consent compliance, and personal data as civil evidence.

Trainee Lawyer

Oz & Goodwin Global Law Firm, Taipei Jun 2022 – Nov 2022

  • Independently drafted commercial contracts across equity restructuring, tri-party contract assumption, dual-track financing, atypical leasing, and multi-party subcontracting, each with bespoke risk allocation.
  • Delivered a full multi-party equity restructuring document set, reconciling share and transfer logic across three instruments; finalized after supervising-attorney review and executed by the clients.
  • Drafted a reusable commissioned-work contract template allocating copyright ownership by design; adopted as the client's internal standard.

Selected Project

🔧 PDPA Compliance Toolkit

Self-initiated · Open source · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

A compliance toolkit mapping Taiwan's PDPA obligations to the Global CBPR Program Requirements, with modules for data-subject access requests and incident response.

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Education

Degree Institution Years
LL.M., Criminal Law National Chengchi University, Taipei 2020 – 2022
LL.B., Corporate & Finance Law National Taiwan University 2014 – 2019

Passed the ROC Bar Examination in first sitting (2019).


Qualifications & Skills

Licences

ROC Attorney-at-Law · ISO 27001:2022 Lead Auditor · TPIPAS:2021 Certified Personal Information Management Professional

Expertise

Commercial Contract Drafting & Review · Personal Data Protection Act (Taiwan) · GDPR / EU Regulatory Frameworks · APEC & Global CBPR · ISO 27001 · Chinese/English Contract Review

Other

  • National Senior Examination (Legal Affairs) — ranked 6th nationally
  • Teaching Assistant, Criminal Procedure, National Chengchi University

Résumé maintained in this repository. Last updated July 2026.

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