Innocenzo Genna

Council Officer and Chair of the Innovation and Growth Committee, Euroispa

Innocenzo Genna is a EU public affairs consultant specialized in telecoms and Internet. He holds the blog Radiobruxelleslibera about European regulation. He is also director of AIIP, the Italian ISP association, and Council Officer of Euroispa, the European association for ISPs. From 2007 to 2009 he was the chairman of ECTA (the European Competitive Telecommunications Association), while from 2002 up to 2006 Mr. Genna was General Counsel of Tiscali S.p.A., with responsibility for the legal and regulatory affairs of the Tiscali Group.

Previously he practised at Ughi e Nunziante, the well known Italian law firm based in Rome and Milan. He became partner of the firm in October 2000. Before his experience at Ughi e Nunziante, he practised in Bologna at the law firm Studio Legale Bernini, while also serving at the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg.

Mr. Genna graduated in law (magna cum laude) at the University of Macerata with a dissertation on the legal status of Berlin. He holds a L.L.M. of the College of Europe (Bruges) and a Magister Iuris from the University of Trier. He has also been awarded a Diploma at the Faculty of Comparative Law of Strasbourg.

Mr. Genna is also a piano composer (www.innocenzogenna.com)