Yes. A personal email address may be appropriate when you are participating in an individual capacity, when you do not have employer authorization to use a work email, when you are between roles, when you are retired, when your employer restricts external affiliations, or when you want to avoid creating the impression of institutional representation.
Using a personal email does not reduce the seriousness of your participation. You should still provide accurate professional background, sector expertise, country or regional pathway, areas of interest, visibility preferences, and conflict information where required.
For individual Council subscriptions, a personal email may be especially useful because the subscription belongs to the individual leader, not to the employer. The subscription helps build the national Nexus Consortium pathway, Stewardship Pool, and National Desk activation base. It does not enroll the participant’s company.
If a company or institution wants to participate, that should be handled separately through Helix Councils or another institutional pathway. The individual account should not be used to create informal company participation.
A personal email is acceptable when it supports clarity, accuracy, and role separation.
