Andrey Vorobyev
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Engineer, lawyer, journalist, PR-specialist and publicman.
In 1999 Andrey Vorobyev graduated from the department of traffic engineering and production organization of the Moscow State University of Railway Engineering and received a degree "mechanical engineer." In 2006 he graduated from the Moscow State Institute of Intellectual Property in the specialty "Lawyer." In 2009, he received his degree, "Intellectual Property Appraiser" after the additional training in the International Academy of Appraisal and Consulting (IAAC). Since 2001 Andrey Vorobyev is the head of external relations and communications at RU-CENTER[1], Russia's leading domain registrar, and gives a legal support to Internet projects.
Andrey Vorobyev is the author of scientific researches devoted to the protection of the intellectual property rights in the Internet and Internet security issues. He is a co-author of the books "Encyclopedia of site building"(«Энциклопедия сайтостроения») and "Creation of Websites" («Создание сайтов»). Since 2004 - Member of the advisory council of the Russian Public Organization "Regional Public Center of Internet Technologies" (ROCIT), member of the Expert Council of the Award for the contribution to the national segment of the Internet (Runet Prize), since 2005 - member of the administration for the Russian Association for Electronic Communications (RAEC). Since 2008 Andrey Vorobyev has participated in ICANN meetings regularly.
Vorobiev is the official spokesperson for different national domain related news, events, and policies for Moscow and Russia. He frequently makes international news by announcing important Russian landmarks, such as the creation of the first internet domain to use a national language script ,Cyrillic (.рф);[2] the official suspension order for a Russian bittorent site [3], and the announcement of a 3,000,000th .ru domain.[4]
He also frequently acts as the official representative for the Russian domain industry in different national [5] and international [6] events and meetings.