Kristina Hakobyan

Organization:	Internet Technology Center LLC, Internet Society NGO
Affiliation:	ccNSO, Fellowship Program, GAC, ALAC, APRALO
Region:	Eastern Europe and Central Asia
Country:	Armenia
Email:	hakkrist@gmail.com
Website:	https://www.isoc.am/board-members/
Facebook:	Kristina Hakobyan
LinkedIn:	Kristina Hakobyan
Twitter:	@hakkrist

Kristina Hakobyan is Head of Staff at Internet Technology Center LLC.

Career History

Kristina Hakobyan started her career in the field of domain name registration in 2010. She played an important role in the development of several registrar companies. Since 2015, she has participated in many local and international events, as well as co-organized different internet-related events (ArmSIG, N2Forum, Girls in ICT).

Starting from 2019, she is a Board member of Internet Society and an advisor to the Representation of Armenia in the Governmental Advisory Committee (GAC) of ICANN. Currently, she works at the Internet Technology Center LLC as a Director.At the same time she is a Head of Staff at Internet Society NGO (ISOC AM) which a manager of .am and .հայ ccTLD.

Chronography

• National Academy of Sciences of RA, Yerevan - Typist, Text editor March 1995 - June 1995 Managing and editing texts and documents

• Silentium LLC, Yerevan - Clerk June 1995 - March 1996 Managing all documents, emails, calls

• Online Plus LLC, Yerevan - Customer Care in Service Center May 2010 - September 2010 Supporting customers before, during and after a purchase

• Global Ar-Net LLC, Yerevan - Customer Care October 2010 - April 2012 Managing all stuff with customers in domain registration services (creating agreements, domain registrations/renewals)

• GlobalAR LLC, Yerevan - Customer Care/ Customer care department supervisor April 2012 - May 2015 Managing all stuff with customers in domain registration services (creating agreements, domain registrations/renewals). Supervising customer care department

• Global AR LLC, Yerevan - Executive Director May 2015 - February 2016 Formulating and successfully implementing company policy Performance of the company, as dictated by the board's overall strategy Reporting to the Chair or board of directors

• Global AM LLC, Yerevan - Executive Director/ Project Coordinator February 2016 - October 2019 Working on ccTLD’s integration to GlobalR.com platform. Managing GlobalR.com project (registry service for .AG, .AM, .BY, .BZ, .GE, .LC, .ME, .MN, .PR., .SC, .VC  ccTLDs). Formulating and successfully implementing company policy. Performance of the company, as dictated by the board's overall strategy. Reporting to the Chair or board of directors.
• Internet Technology Center LLC, Yerevan - Head of Staff - January 2020
• Internet Technology Center LLC, Yerevan - Director - January 2021
• Internet Society NGO (.am and .հայ ccTLD), Head of Staff - June 2021

ICANN and Internet Governance Participation

• September 2015 attended TLDCON as a participant in Yerevan, Armenia
• September 2016 attended TLDCON as a participant in Tbilisi, Georgia
• October 2016 attended ARMIGF as a participant in Yerevan, Armenia
• October 2017 attended ARMIGF as a participant in Yerevan, Armenia
• October 2017 participated as a Fellow to ENOG14 in Minsk, Belarus

• November 2017 participated as a Fellow to RIPE NCC IPv6 Hackathon in Copenhagen, Denmark

• February 2018 attended Internet Fundamentals and Data Analytics RIPE NCC Workshop as an invited guest in Yerevan, Armenia
• March 2018 attended NASIG2018 as a student in San Juan, Puerto Rico
• March 2018 participated as a Fellow to ICANN61 in San Juan, Puerto Rico
• May 2018 participated as a Fellow to SEEDIG2018 in Ljubljana, Slovenia
• May 2018 co-founder of Internet Society Armenia Chapter
• June 2018 attended EuroDIG2018 as a participant in Tbilisi, Georgia
• June 2018 attended Regithon2018 as a participant in Tsaghkadzor, Armenia
• June 2018 attended DigiTec Business Forum as a participant in Yerevan, Armenia
• September 2018 attended TLDCON2018 as a participant in Jurmala, Latvia
• September 2018 attended RIPE NCC Regional Meeting as a panelist in Almaty, Kazakhstan
• September 2018 attended 6th International Research and Practice Conference «Digital transformation of the telecom business and 5G - the basis of digital economy» as a speaker in Almaty, Kazakhstan
• October 2018 attended CENTR Registrar Day as a participant in Brussel, Belgium
• October 2018 participated as a Fellow to ICANN63 in Barcelona, Spain
• November 2018 attended Global IGF2018, Represented in IGF Village Booth in Paris, France
• November 2018 attended Nordic Domain Days as a participant in Stockholm, Sweden
• December 2018 attended DNS Forum as a panelist in Moscow, Russia
• January 2019 has been selected as SEEDIG Ambassador for this year
• March 2019 participated as a Fellow/Coach to ICANN64 in Kobe, Japan
• March 2019 has been elected as a Board member to ISOC AM (.am and .հայ ccTLD manager)
• June 2019 participated as a Fellow to ICANN65 in Marrakesh, Morocco
• October 2019, member of N2 Forum Organizational Committee
• November 2019 attended NASIG2019 as a student in Montreal, Canada
• November 2019 participated as an ATLAS III participant to ICANN66 in Montreal, Canada
• November 2019 assigned as an Advisor to Armenia GAC representation in ICANN
• May 2020 has been elected as a Board member to Internet Society Armenia Chapter
• May 2023 has been reelected as a Board member to Internet Society Armenia Chapter
• February 2024 has been reelected as a Board member to ISOC AM (.am and .հայ ccTLD manager)

Education

• School N 28, Yerevan - Elementary, High degree September 1980 - May 1990

• “David Anhakht” Humanitarian University - Magistry, Specialist in English Studies September 1990 - May 1995
• ISOC AM Arbitrage Courses April 2018 – June 2018 

Country Code Names Supporting Organization. Develops and recommends to the Board global policies relating to country-code top-level domains (ICANN Bylaws).

Governmental Advisory Committee. Considers and provides advice on the activities of ICANN as they relate to concerns of governments, particularly matters where there may be an interaction between ICANN's policies and various laws and international agreements or where they may affect public policy issues (ICANN Bylaws).

At-Large Advisory Committee. Considers and provides advice on the activities of ICANN related to the interests of individual Internet users (ICANN Bylaws). Not to be confused with the Non-Commercial Stakeholder Group.

Internet Society

Country code top-level domain

Internet Governance Forum