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Veni Markovski, Global Partnership, Regional Liaison for Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
Veni Markovski started working on the Internet in September 1990 by becoming one of the first operators of a FidoNet Bulletin Board System in Sofia, Bulgaria. By 1993 he had founded the second Internet Service Provider in the history of Bulgaria, which later became BOL.BG. In 1995, he founded the Internet Society of Bulgaria.
He chairs the Bulgarian President's IT Advisory Committee and served on the Boards of ICANN, the Internet Society, and CPSR. Veni Markovski supports the work of the Bulgarian governmental Agency for Information Technologies and Communications by advising its chairman. He has chaired the ICANN Membership Implementation Task Force. He has also been expert to several Bulgarian Parliaments, and is among the contributors to different laws, among them the Telecommunications Act, the Penal Code (computer crimes chapter), the Electronic Document and Digital Signature Law, the Copyright Law, and others.
Mr. Markovski is graduate of the Sofia University "St. Kliment Ochridski" with a master of science degree in Law (1993). He has published in dozens of Bulgarian and foreign newspapers and magazines since 1984, and is a frequent presenter at IT-related conferences around the world.
Veni Markovski has extended knowledge of the Russian history and culture, as well as the cultures of the countries in the region he's responsible for within the ICANN's Global Partnership Program.