Phil Rushton works in BT’s Technology and Service Operations Division where he has responsibility for contributing to BT’s compliance with regulatory requirements of the UK’s telecoms Act, focussing upon Standards, Numbering and Number Portability.  He has responsibility for BT’s relationship with the regulator over numbering policy.

As part of the Standards role, Phil is active in Internet Governance matters across a number of forums, and has participated in the CSTD Working Group on enhanced co-operation, where he led the correspondence group that identified existing mechanisms. Phil is also active in the ITU at various levels, on behalf of BT and as part of UK delegations, and has a number of formal positions in relation to Child online Protection and Numbering.  Phil has also been responsible for developing European Common Positions at ITU Conferences, including Plenipotentiary, World Conference on International Telecommunications, World telecommunications Standards Assembly and World Telecommunications Development Conference on various topics including climate change, Numbering Misappropriation and Child online Protection.

In the UK, Phil works closely with UK Government across a number of areas including UK ITU Co-ordination and the UK Multistakeholder Advisory Group on Internet Governance.  Within the standards area, he is the UK co-ordinator for ITU-T Study Group 2 (Numbering) and ITU t Study Group 5 (climate Change).  He is active in contributing submissions to the UK co-ordination processes for various standards activities including ITU-T and ITU-D in his specialist areas.

Phil has been involved in Numbering for over 20 years and is recognised as an expert in this area.

Phil holds an M.Sc. in IT (Loughborough) and a BA (Hons) History (Essex).  He was educated in NSW Australia.