Nick Ashton-Hart

Nick Ashton-Hart is the representative of Cybersecurity Tech Accord to the UN and APCO’s Senior Director for Digital Economy Policy based in New York. He is active in the General Assembly’s global cybersecurity discussions and was a lead negotiator for the private sector in the UN Cybercrime Convention negotiations. Over his 25-year public policy career he has been active in high-stakes multilateral negotiations across multiple digital economy domains from representing 38 European member-states at the ITU, various states in WTO ecommerce talks, and the tech sector’s de-facto Geneva representative for 15 years. Prior to his career in public policy, he was a Manager of popular musicians including the Godfather of Soul, James Brown, and multi-platinum electronic pop pioneers Heaven 17.