Internet Industry Association

Peter Coroneos is Chief Executive of the Internet Industry Association, the national industry body for the Internet in Australia. In addition to his role as primary industry advocate, political strategist and spokesperson for the IIA, Peter drives the IIA's policy development work and has instigated the formation of specialist taskforces to leverage member expertise in diverse legal, economic and technical areas.

Peter is currently overseeing the development and implementation of industry codes of practice within the IIA representing industry's proactive response to a range of challenging social policy areas within Australia, ranging from cybercrime to online privacy. Peter acts as industry representative on a number of high level bodies and regularly appears before House of Representatives and Senate inquiries to advise on the development of facilitative and workable rules for the internet and new media.

Prior to his appointment in 1997, he enjoyed a diverse professional life as a science educator, marketing consultant and senior officer with the national competition and telecommunications regulator, as well as State Convenor and National Management Committee member of the Australian Republican Movement. His multidisciplinary education includes a First Class Honours degree in Law, Honours Degree in Agricultural Economics, and a postgraduate Diploma in Education.

A specialist in internet governance and joint industry-government co-operation, Peter has addressed audiences in the US, Europe and Asia. His previous and current appointments and participations include:

Appointments

• Member, Consultative Working Group on Social Networking  -- Joint Ministerial appointment (2007)
• Member, Australian Teleworking Advisory Committee -- Ministerial appointment (2006)
• Member, Privacy Advisory Committee - Vice Regal appointment (2002-current)
• Director, NetAlert, national community advisory body for protecting children online - Ministerial appointment (1999-current)
• Attorney General’s Consultative Group on Protecting Australia’s Critical Information Infrastructure (2000-2)
• Tax Commissioner's Consultative Committee (eForum) on Electronic Commerce (2000-1)
• Australian Tax Office GST Implementation Industry Consultative Group ( 2000)
• Business Entry Point Business Consultative Group (2002)
• Chair, Internet Advertising Industry Steering Committee (2002)
• Australian Information Economy Advisory Council (AIEAC) -  Ministerial appointment (1999-2001)
• National Bandwidth Inquiry Committee (subgroup of AIEAC) (1999)
• National Innovation and Entrepreneurship Committee (subgroup of AIEAC) (1999)
• Private Sector Core Consultative Group to the Federal Attorney General on Proposed Privacy Legislation for Private Sector (1999)
• Digital Broadcasting 'High Level Consultative Group' (1999)
• Digital Broadcasting Industry Coordinating Group (1998)
• Model Code Reference Group - Consumer Protection in E-Commerce, Department of Treasury (1998-9)
• Children and Online Content Ministerial Taskforce (1998)

 Presentations/invitations

• East China University of Politics and Law, Copyright Symposium (Shanghai, May 2007) - International presenter
• Council of Europe, Pan-European Forum on Human Rights in the Information Society (Strasbourg, September 2005) - International panellist
• Oxford Internet Institute, Cybersafety Symposium (Oxford, September 2005) - Keynote address
• Canadian Taskforce on Spam Roundtable (Ottowa, December 2004) - Keynote address
• OECD International Spam Summit (Korea, September 2004) - Keynote address
• Internet Society of China Spam Symposium (Beijing September 2004) - International presenter
• APEC Privacy Symposium and Electronic Commerce Working Group (Santiago Chile, March 2004) - Presenter
• US Federal Trade Commission Spam Forum (Washington DC, May 2003) - International panellist
• US/Australian bilaterals on Critical Infrastructure Protection (Washington DC, October 2002) - Leader of industry delegation
• OECD Working Group on Information Security - (Sydney, Feb 2002) - Delegate
• US/Australian bilaterals on Critical Infrastructure Protection (Canberra, August 2001) - Industry representative
• Global Advertising Summit (Washington DC, April 2001) - Working Group leader
• World Internet Gambling Summit, (Miami FL, March 2001) - Presenter
• Berkman Center of Internet Law, Harvard Law School (Cambridge MA, March 2001) - Presenter
• Bertelsmann Foundation, International Experts' Roundtable for the Protection of Children on the Internet (Singapore, February 2001) - Presenter
• ISPCON (San Jose CA, November 2000) - Presenter
• ISPCON (Orlando FL, May 2000) - Presenter
• International Network 2000 (New York NY, May 2000) - Presenter
• Economic Strategy Institute (Washington DC, October 1999 ) - Presenter
• Convention on Combating Child Pornography on the Internet (Vienna, October 1999) - Delegate invitee of Ministry of the Interior, Austria
• Internet Content Self Regulation Summit (Munich, September 1999) - Delegate invitee of Government of Bavaria/Bertelsmann Foundation
• Australian industry representative to E-commerce APEC Business/Government Roundtable (Kuala Lumpur, 1998) - Delegate invitee of Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
• numerous Australian conferences and events since 1998