Innocenzo M. Genna is a EU public affairs consultant specialised in telecoms and electronic commerce matters. He is a director of AIIP, the Italian ISP association, and vice-president of Euroispa, the European association for ISPs. He is also member of the Italian Committee for the protection of minors in the Internet.

From April 2002 up to February 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 Diplome at the Faculty of Comparative Law of Strasbourg.