Anastasia Su-Anne Chen

Director, Drew & Napier LLC

Anastasia Su-Anne Chen is a director in Drew & Napier’s corporate and finance department. Her key areas of practice are data protection, privacy, cybersecurity, and technology, media, and telecommunications (TMT). 

Before joining the firm, Anastasia was deputy chief counsel to Singapore’s Personal Data Protection Commission (PDPC) and Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA) for over nine years. She was lead counsel for PDPC’s matters, IMDA’s procurement and IP portfolios, as well as the legal adviser to IMDA’s Data Administration Group. This included advising on the administration, application and enforcement of Singapore’s Personal Data Protection Act 2012 (PDPA). 

Significant national projects that she has worked on include the amendments to the PDPA, which came into effect on 1 February 2021, and Singapore’s participation and implementation of the APEC Cross Border Privacy Rules System.

Anastasia has broad experience in data protection compliance programmes and documentation, cross-border data transfers, the coordination of multi-jurisdictional projects and data breach management. She also advises on related TMT matters, such as regulatory issues in respect of data centres and the use of artificial intelligence.