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name-PAVAN DUGGAL
country- INDIA
profession- ADVOCATE, SUPREME COURT OF INDIA
e-mail address-pduggal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
                    pavanduggal@xxxxxxxxxxx

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        CURRICULUM VITAE OF PAVAN DUGGAL



Pavan Duggal is a practising Advocate in the Supreme
Court of India at New Delhi, having specialized in the
newly emerging field of Cyberlaw & E-Commerce law in
the last few years.  

An internationally renowned expert and authority on
Cyberlaw, Pavan has also the credit of having done
pioneering work in the field of Convergence Law.

He is the Founder President of Cyberlaw Asia, Asia's
pioneering organization committed to the passing of
dynamic cyberlaws in the Asian continent. Cyberlaw
Asia is engaged in the process of creating greater
awareness about Cyberlaws in different countries of
Asia.

Pavan has been associated with UNESCO on Ethical,
Legal, and Societal Challenges of Cyberspace in Asia
and the Pacific.

He is Member of Membership Advisory Committee of The
Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers
(ICANN).  He is also member of the Membership
Implementation Task Force (MITF) of ICANN and is
involved in the legal issues of At Large Membership of
this global body. 

Pavan is a member of World Intellectual Property
Organization (WIPO) Arbitration and Mediation Centre
Panel of Neutrals. He has taken an active part in the
regional deliberations at Hyderabad relating to the
Domain Names Policy formulation undertaken by World
Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO).

He is the consultant to United Nations Economic and
Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP)
on the Asia Pacific Conference on Cybercrime and
Information Security 2002.

Pavan is the member of AFACT Legal Working Group of
UN/CEFACT.

Pavan is the President of Cyberlaws.Net, The Cyberlaw
Consultancy, which is Internet's unique and first ever
consultancy dedicated exclusively to the new field of
Cyberlaws. He is engaged in providing online
consultancy relating to various issues of Cyberlaws
and E-commerce.

He is advising the Controller of Certifying
Authorities, Ministry of Information Technology,
Government of India on issues concerning the Indian
Cyberlaw namely, The Information Technology Act, 2000.
 He is also the Member of the IT Act Legal Advisory
Group constituted by the Controller of Certifying
Authorities.

Pavan Duggal has testified before the Indian
Parliamentary Standing Committee on Information
Technology, on the Communication Convergence Bill,
2001.

At present, he is handling various newly emerging
Cyberlaw litigations and disputes.

Pavan is the Founder of The Cyberlaw Association,
Internet's pioneering association dedicated to the
growth of Cyberlaws in cyberspace.

He has been associated with the United Nations
Development Programme (UNDP) and United Nations
International Drug Control Programme (UNDCP).

He is the Founder of Cyberarbitration, an online
system of alternative dispute resolution. 

He is the Founder of CyberlawIndia, an organization
committed to the passing of dynamic cyberlaws in
India.  Cyberlawindia is membership based and is
engaged in the process of creating greater awareness
about Cyberlaws in India.

Pavan Duggal is also the exclusive contributor on
India's only vortal on Cyberlaw in India being
Cyberlaw India at www.cyberlawindia.com.

He is member of Inter-Ministerial Working Group of
Cyber Law and Cyber Forensics of Government of India.

He is associated with Ministry of Information
Technology, Government of India on legal issues of
Electronic Governance.

He is the author of the book entitled "Cyberlaw - The
Indian Perspective".

Pavan is the visiting faculty for Cyberlaw at the
National Police Academy, Hyderabad, SEMCOM, Gujarat
and Indian Law Institute, Delhi.

He has conceptualize and taught a comprehensive course
on Cybercrime, for the Bureau of Police Research &
Development, Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of
India.

Pavan is associated with NASSCOM, Confederation of
Indian Industry (CII) and Indo German Chambers of
Commerce (IGCC), All India Management Association
(AIMA) on various Cyberlaw and E-Commerce law issues. 

He is the Cyberlaw correspondent for the Global Legal
Publication JURIST: The Legal Education Network. 

He is a prolific writer and speaks at numerous
International Cyberlaw Forums.

In addition, Pavan is the only Cyberlaw content
provider and columnist with the leading Indian IT
Portal being ZDNETINDIA at www.zdnetindia.com . He is
regularly contributing special articles on Cyberlaw in
his monthly column on the website ITSpace.com.  Pavan
has a weekly column "Cyberlaw and You" at
www.indiainfoline.com.

He is already contributing interactive features on the
subject in various leading newspapers of the country.
Pavan writes the weekly Sunday interactive cyberlaw
column entitled "Brief Cases" in The Economic Times.
He also writes for The Financial Express, The
Telegraph and others.

Pavan has been interviewed by various television
channels on Cyberlaw, like The British Broadcasting
Corporation (BBC), Star Television, Star News, Zee
News, Sahara TV and Doordarshan. He has also given an
exclusive interview on Cyberlaw to BBC Radio.

He has been invited as a distinguished speaker on
various issues of Cyberlaw at numerous International
Internet Fora, conferences and exhibitions like India
Internet World, 1998, 1999 & 2000 at New Delhi,
E-biz-2000, E-BizIndia-2000,
E-Governance Conference, Apricot 1999 at Singapore and
Regional Meeting of Infoethics (UNESCO), 2000 at
Beijing.

Pavan has been invited as a speaker on Cyber Terrorism
at the 11th Annual AMIC conference in Perth,
Australia.  He was also plenary speaker at the
Regional Seminar on the Root Causes of Terrorism and
the Role of Youth organized by the World Youth
Foundation on the subject of Cybercrime and Cyber
Terrorism.  He was invited by the Mauritian Management
Association to conduct the first of its kind seminar
on Cyberlaw in Mauritius in August 2002.

Contact Address: -
Pavan Duggal,
C-2/60,Janak Puri,
New Delhi-110058,
India

Telephone Nos-
(Off) -  91-11-26535812, 25536298, 25554607
Fax-     91-11-5554607

E-mails - pduggal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
           pavanduggal@xxxxxxxxxxx

Website www.cyberlaws.net




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