Elena Voinikanis 

Ph.D. in History of Philosophy, Associate Professor member of UNESCO Chair in Copyright and Other Intellectual Property Rights leading expert at the Russian Corporate Counsel Association  member of the Commettee on Legal Affairs of the Russian Association for Electronic Communications (RAEC) member of Scientific Council on economic problems of the intellectual property at the Social Science Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences  member of  Interagency Expert Council on Regulation of Personal Data (Russian Ministry of Communications)  member of Expert Council on Telecommunications of the Russian Federal Antimonopoly Service member of Expert Council on Telecommunications of the Committee of the Federation Council (upper house of the RF Parliament)

She holds two Graduate Diplomas in Philosophy and in Law from Moscow State University. After receiving her Ph.D. in 1996, she taught at her alma mater for 15 years.

She is one of the authors of Federal Law "On Information, Information Technlogies, and Information Protection" (2005-2006). Оn behalf of the Russian Ministry of Communications, she participated in the elaboration of amendments to Part IV of the Russian Civil Code concerning legal regulation of databases and electronic libraries (2006). Most recently she was an active participant in the Ministerial Working Group on adaptation of international free licenses to the national legislation and contributed to the drafting and supporting proposals to correct the new provisions about intermediaries' liability and other changes to the Internet regulations introduced by the Amendments to the Russian Civil Code (2012).

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