Joe McNamee

Executive Director, EDRi (European Digital Rights)

Joe McNamee is Executive Director of European Digital Rights, the umbrella organisation for digital civil rights organisations in Europe. He has been working in the internet sector almost continually since 1995 and has a particular interest in issues related to privacy, "voluntary” regulation of citizens by internet companies and the application of human rights law in the online environment. He played a key role in the civil society campaign for legal protection for net neutrality in Europe. In his previous job, he led independent studies for the European Commission on telecoms and the information society in Russia and seven former Soviet states, local loop unbundling and convergence.