Veni Markovski
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| Country: | Bulgaria |
| Email: | veni[at]veni.com |
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Veni Markovski is a pioneer for internet and information technology from Bulgaria. He is currently the Regional Representative of ICANN for Russia and Eastern Europe, CIS.[1] and the CEO/owner of Global Solutions and Consulting. He also has been advising the Bulgarian National Cybersecurity Coordinator since 2009.
Veni Markovski was born 1968 in Skopie, Macedonia. He started his work with the internet in 1990, as a system operator of the first Sofia-based bulletin-board system, part of FidoNet.[2] 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 non-profit Internet Society of Bulgaria, and is currently chairman of its board.[3]
Veni Markovski currently lives in Washington, DC, USA.
Advisory and Leadership Roles
He has served on the boards of ICANN, the Internet Society, CPSR, Sofia New Symphony Orchestra, and others. In 2003 he ran for mayor of Sofia. In 2006-2009 Veni Markovski supported the work of the Bulgarian State Agency for Information Technologies and Communications by advising its chairman on international ICT related issues.
He has also advised several Bulgarian Parliaments, the chairman of the state agency of IT and communications, the Council of Ministers, and has been chairing the Bulgarian President's IT Advisory Committee since 2002. His governmental work includes contribution to a variety of ICT related legislation; such as the Telecommunications Act, the Penal Code (computer crimes chapter), the Electronic Document and Digital Signature Law, the Copyright Law, and others.[4]
Mr. Markovski has been member of the Bulgarian delegation to the U.N. World Summit on Information Society, and a member of the advisory group to the Internet Governance Forum. He was a member of the ICANN Board from 2003 to 2006, and from 2002-2007 he served as a member of the Board of Trustees of the Internet Society.[5] He also served the Internet Society of New York from 2007 to 2010, and was on the Board of Directors of the Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility from 2003 to 2005.
Veni Markovski was Project Manager of UNDP projects for support of e-government initiatives in South-eastern Europe, and his efforts there were positively reviewed by The New York Times, [6], The International Herald Tribune, heise.de, [7] and others. Veni Markovski has also served as project contact point for the Bulgarian ENUM trial, which was launched on April 13, 2006.
He has been published in dozens of Bulgarian and foreign newspapers and magazines since 1984, and is a frequent presenter at IT and cybersecurity related conferences around the world, among them CFP (San Francisco, CA, USA), MMAWG (Washington, DC, USA), WSIS (Geneva, Switzerland and Tunis, Tunisia), Wizards of OS (Berlin, Germany), iWeek (Johannesburg, South Africa), FBI/Fordham (New York), RANS (Moscow, Russia), Nato Forum on Security (Istanbul, Turkey), Cybersecurity forums (Sofia, Bulgaria; Belgrade, Serbia; Moscow, Russia; New York, USA), and many others. [8]
Education
- St. Kliment Ohridski Sofia University Msc., Law, 1989-1997
Career History
- From September 1990 to August 1993 Veni Markovski was the System Operator at MicroComm.
- He was the CEO/President of BOL.BG from December 1993 to April 2002.
- He was a Member of the Board of Directors of ICANN from 2003 to 2006.
- He served as a Member of Board of Trustees of Internet Society.
- He was a participant of TED during February 2009.
- From December 1995 he is serving as the President and Chairman of the Board Internet Society, Bulgaria.
- He has been acting as the Chairman Bulgarian President's IT Advisory Committee from March 2002.
- He is working as the Senior Advisor to the Chairman, Bulgarian Government - State Agency for IT and Communications from January 2006.
- November 2006 he joined Global Solutions and Consulting as the CEO/owner.
- He has been serving as the Regional Representative of [ICANN]] in Russia, Eastern Europe, CIS from January 2007.
- He joined the Office of the National Cybersecurity Coordinator as the Senior Advisor in April 2009 and has been serving as the Advisor of the Bulgarian National Cybersecurity Coordinator since.