Stakeholder Group: Private Sector
Region: Asia-Pacific
Biography
Iarla Flynn is Head of Public Policy and Government Affairs with Google for Australia and New Zealand. His role covers the full range of public policy issues including access, content regulation, security and privacy, and includes responsibility for representing Google in interactions with government and with industry groups. He is also leading Google’s engagement across the Asia-Pacific region on Internet governance issues.
He joined Google in 2007 as European Public Policy Manager based at the Company’s European HQ in Ireland. Prior to joining Google he spent 12 years in senior roles with government and industry in Ireland’s telecommunications sector where he was a leading advocate for the benefits of competition and choice. He has a Commerce degree from University College Cork and a Masters degree in Economics from Trinity College Dublin.