Speaker details

Kuan Hon, MA (Cantab), LLM (UPenn), MSc (Imperial), LLM (Queen Mary), is consultant to the Cloud Legal Project at the Centre for Commercial Law Studies, Queen Mary, University of London, where she is undertaking a joint law and computer science PhD. She is also a consultant lawyer with Pinsent Masons, the law firm behind the technology-focused thought leadership site Out-Law. A Solicitor of the Supreme Court of England and Wales and a (non-practising) New York Attorney, Kuan worked as a finance/insolvency lawyer for English and US law firms in the City of London before completing a Computing Science MSc and moving into technology law, particularly data protection law and legal issues in cloud computing.
She is the primary author of eight chapters of Cloud Computing Law, including the chapters on cloud technologies and risk, and data protection in cloud computing. Her articles on cloud computing have been published by the IEEE 7th International Conference on Cloud Computing, Information, Communication & Society journal, Journal of International Data Privacy Law, SCRIPT-ed, Society for Computers and Law, Stanford Technology Law Review and SCL - The IT Law Community. Kuan Hon's website.