David Sandukhchyan
Sandukhchyan is a lawyer with 20 years of experience in telecommunications, cyber law, media and personal data protection. He started his legal career as an Internet freedom advocate and made substantial contributions to the development of media, telecommunication and technology legislation in Armenia. David was Chief Counsel at Beeline, one of the leading Armenian telecom operators, for over 8 years. From 2005 to 2007 he was a member of the Council of Europe expert group on human rights in information society and committee of experts on electronic democracy. Today he lives in Toronto, Canada and as a private consultant he is involved in many Internet freedom, data protection and telecommunications development projects. He holds a BA degree in law and a Masters in physics. He is a certified ISO information security auditor with a Certificate in Advanced Cyber Security from York University in Toronto.
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