Stakeholder Group: Civil Society
Region: Asia Pacific
Biography
Jeremy Malcolm is Consumers International's Senior Policy and Project Officer for Consumers in the Digital Age, coordinating its global programmes on Access to Knowledge (A2K), broadband, and consumer rights and representation in the information society from CI's Asia-Pacific office in Kuala Lumpur. Jeremy graduated with degrees in Law (with Honours) and Commerce in 1995 from Murdoch University, and completed his PhD thesis at the same University in 2008 which was the first doctoral examination of the Internet Governance Forum. He later adapted his thesis into a book titled "Multi-Stakeholder Governance and the Internet Governance Forum". Jeremy's background is as an information technology and intellectual property lawyer and IT consultant with a research interest in Internet governance. He is admitted to the bars of the Supreme Court of Western Australia (1995), High Court of Australia (1996) and Appellate Division of New York (2009). Until his most recent appointment Jeremy was the principal of Western Australia's first specialist IT law firm, and simultanously managed an IT consultancy. Jeremy has been a committee member of the Australian Public Access Network Association, Electronic Frontiers Australia, the Western Australian Society for Computers and the Law, the Society of Linux Professionals Western Australia, the Western Australian Internet Association, the Internet Society of Australia and the Spam Taskforce of the Internet Industry Association of Australia, and is an immediate past co-coordinator of the Internet Governance Caucus.