MALCOLM HUTTY, Head of Public Affairs
LINX, The London Internet Exchange.

Malcolm’s role at LINX involves liaising with government and regulatory authorities on behalf of the LINX's membership of ISPs and other network operators, representing the interests of members to government and briefing members on regulatory developments.

In 2008 he was elected President of EuroISPA, the pan-European organisation of membership associations representing the interests of Internet Service Providers.

Malcolm also acts as Regulatory Affairs spokesman for Euro-IX, the European association of Internet Exchanges. He is a member of a number of organisations relating to Internet regulation in the United Kingdom, including the the Communications Industry / Law Enforcement Liaison Group, the UK Council for Children's Internet Safety, and the Electronic Communications Resilience and Response Group.

He has previously served as Chair of the Network Security Information Exchange, a Director of the Internet Watch Foundation and as an elected member of the Nominet Policy Advisory Board.

 
  ISABELLE DE VINCK, Secreatry General
ISPA Belgium, The Belgian ISP Association.

Before joining the Association, Isabelle worked in the marketing and communication field in a Brussels based IT company and at the Belgian Embassy in Harare (Zimbabwe), where she held the post of First Secretary.

Isabelle graduated with a Master's degree in Business from ISC Saint Louis Business School (Brussels) and also holds a Master's Degree in Political Sociology and in European Studies from the Free University of Brussels.

 
  RONAN LUPTON, Barrister at Law
The Law Library, Four Courts, Dublin.

Ronan Lupton, Barrister-at-Law, is a member of the Irish Bar. Ronan practices in the areas of commercial, chancery, defamation, intellectual property/copyright and competition law. Prior to practice he spent 12 years in various regulatory and engineering roles in the Internet and communications markets.

He served as Head of Regulatory Affairs at Verizon Business in Ireland. He is Chair of ALTO, a member of the Department of Justice, Internet Safety Advisory Council, Irish IPv6 Task Force, and the Irish ENUM Policy Advisory Board. He is an experienced industry and regulatory advocate and has worked on major international projects and transactions in the Internet and communications environment. He holds a BA (Management), M.Sc. (Strategic Management), and the degree of Barrister-at-Law (King’s Inns).


Tel: +353-1-817-7766
GSM: +353-87-205-3215

 
  ANDREA D'INCECCO, Public Affairs Manager
Political Intelligence and EuroISPA.

Andrea D’Incecco is an Italian qualified lawyer. Before joining EuroISPA he worked for prestigious international law firms specialising in antitrust law, advertising law and consumer protection issues. Andrea also gained valuable experience in the IT regulatory field working as consultant in the legal and regulatory affairs department of a Swiss telecommunications company, Fastweb.

Andrea holds a LL.M. in European Studies from the Free University of Brussels. He graduated from the Law University of Teramo and spent a year at the Phillips Universitaet of Marburg in Germany as part of his undergraduate studies. In 2002, he completed a postgraduate degree in European Union Law from Pescara’s University of Economics and since 2006 he has been conducting Ph.D. research in competition law with the Law University of Perugia.

 
  PAUL DURRANT, General Manager
Internet Service Providers Association of Ireland (ISPAI).

Paul heads up the ISPAI secretariat based in Dublin which works to promote the interests of ISPs in Ireland. He also manages the ISPAI Hotline.ie service, which provides a shared service for ISPAI members to deal with the legal obligations of ISPs to react to reports from the public of suspected illegal content on the Internet.

He is a member of the Internet Safety Advisory Council to the Government's Office for Internet Safety. He is a member of the European Commission's Safer Internet Focus Group and a EuroISPA Council member.

Paul has over 30 years experience in the Information and Communications Technologies sector providing Internet infrastructure, e-commerce and digital media production consultancy to the private sector, Government agencies and the European Commission, DG InfoSoc both as an independent consultant and later as Principal Consultant with Mason Communications. Previously he was M.D. of Multimedia Technologies Ireland, the national centre promoting digital media information systems development; Technical Director at CACI Dublin, developing simulation software applications and prior to this he worked in IBM Ireland for over ten years as a Software Development Manager and Systems Engineer.