Malcolm Hutty
LINX
Head of Public Affairs
London, UK
Malcolm is the Head of Public Affairs at LINX, the London Internet Exchange.
Malcolm’s role involves liaising with government and regulatory authorities on behalf of the LINX membership, representing the interests of members to government and briefing members on regulatory developments.
Until December 2013, Malcolm was President of EuroISPA, the pan-European organisation of membership associations representing the interests of Internet Service Providers. He acts as Regulatory Affairs spokesman for Euro-IX, the European association of Internet Exchanges. He is also a member of a number of UK domestic organisations relating to Internet regulation.
Malcolm has acted as an expert witness in ground-breaking court cases concerning network blocking in the UK (the Newzbin2 case, and BT’s challenge to the Digital Economy Act) and Ireland (EMI v Eircom), and has testified to Select Committee hearings of both the UK House of Commons and the House of Lords.
Malcolm 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.