Ms. Laura Hutchison is a Policy Executive at Nominet UK. Ms. Hutchison joined Nominet, the registry for .uk domain names, in 2001. Since 2008 she has been part of the International Policy team where she is responsible for building and maintaining relationships with external stakeholders, government and regulatory representatives. Ms. Hutchison has participated in the IGF since 2008 and has lead on the coordination of the UK-Internet Governance Forum which is a collaborative partnership that provides a local forum in the UK to engage industry, government, parliament, academia and civil society in debate on Internet Governance issues. She also has extensive experience of ICANN which she has participated in for over five years.