Nick Ashton-Hart
Nick Ashton-Hart is the Geneva Representative of the and on the UK delegation to the meetings of the International Telecommunications Union. He has served in various capacities as the representative of the technology sector to the UN and its member-state delegations in Geneva for more than a decade, including with the Computer & Communications Industry Association. Prior to that he was Senior Director for Participation and Engagement and Director for At-Large at the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers.
He has been the lead negotiator for the 48 European member-state regional grouping in the ITU on various economic issues at ITU meetings from 2011 to the present.
He has been active in international policy development and intergovernmental negotiations in various areas for more than 25 years, from trade policy as a representative of the private sector to the WTO and as an advisor to the UN Conference on Trade and Development, was a Member for the Technical Community of the convened by the UN General Assembly, sustainable unban development, Intellectual Property, and Internet Governance.
He has served as a Director and Managing Director of various organisations, including Executive Director of the International Music Managers Forum, the international non-governmental organisation representing the interests of music managers and their clients, the featured artist community.
He began his business career as an artist manager for featured musical artists, such as James Brown and Heaven 17. He retired from artist management in 2004.
He speaks regularly on international public policy issues, especially related to trade policy, including at the UK House of Commons, at the World Trade Organization's meetings on the . and . In intellectual property policy he's spoken at events as diverse as Digital Hollywood and MusicTank, the Transatlantic Consumers Dialogue, organs of government such as the Committee on Legal Affairs of the European Parliament, and organs of the United Nations and its specialised agencies, for several years during meetings of the World Intellectual Property Organization on behalf of CCIA.
