This week, Dr. Jeremy Chih-cheng Chang, CEO of DSET, and the Deputy Director of Economic Security Resaerch Program, Min-yen Chiang went to Stanford University. During the visit, DSET officially appointed the Honorable Charles Mok, JP, a former member of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong and current researcher at Stanford University’s Cyber Policy Center, as an advisor for DSET.
Honorable Charles Mok currently serves as a Research Scholar at the Global Digital Policy Incubator of Stanford University’s Cyber Policy Center. He also holds several international roles, including Director and Trustee of the Internet Society, Director of the International Centre for Trade Transparency and Monitoring, and Founder of Tech for Good Asia, an initiative dedicated to promoting AI technology governance aligned with democratic values. From 2012 to 2020, he represented the Information Technology sector in the Hong Kong Legislative Council. In 1994, he founded HKNet, one of the earliest internet service providers in Asia, which was acquired by Japan’s NTT Communications in 2020.
Moving forward, Mr. Mok will collaborate with DSET on in-depth research projects spanning critical policy areas such as submarine cable security, internet governance, digital policy, and supply chain resilience. Professor Hong-Wei Yen, Director of the Science and Technology Division at the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in San Francisco, personally witnessed the appointment ceremony.
