Paris, France - Senior Policy Manager, E-Business, IT, and Telecoms, Executive in charge of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) Policy, International Chamber of Commerce (ICC)
Ms. Ayesha Hassan manages the ICC Commission on E-Business, IT and Telecoms. She is in charge of ICC’s initiative, Business Action to Support the Information Society (BASIS). She managed the Coordinating Committee of Business Interlocutors (CCBI), which was established to mobilize and coordinate involvement of the world business community in the process leading to the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) Summits of 2003 and 2005. She also served on the UN Secretary-General’s Task Force on Financial Mechanisms, and currently serves on the multistakeholder advisory group for the Internet Governance Forum (IGF).
Ms. Hassan represented the ICC on numerous occasions, participating and speaking at international and regional events, including the G8 Dot Force, the UN Information and Communication Technologies Task Force and other events hosted by the OECD, the WTO, ITU Telecoms and the EU Commission.
Ms. Hassan is an experienced lawyer with a background in dispute resolution, international policy and e-commerce issues. She is the former head of online dispute resolution services at SquareTrade. Ms. Hassan obtained her undergraduate degree from the University of Chicago in political science. She also holds a law degree from the University of San Diego and a master's degree in International Policy Studies from Stanford University.