Veni Markovski

Veni Markovski is based in New York, and is responsible for the relations with the United Nations, the UN Agencies in New York, and the Permanent Missions to the United Nations.

Mr Markovski has graduated law, but before that, back in September 1990 he started his work on the Internet, as a system operator of the first Sofia-based bulletin-board system, part of FidoNet.

In 1993 Mr. Markovski formed with another of the Bulgarian Internet pioneers, Mr. Dimitar Ganchev, their company – bol.bg, the first commercial Internet service provider in Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria. Mr Markovski was President and CEO of bol.bg for nine years. The two owners sold the company successfully in 2008 to an international investment fund.

In 1995 he co-founded the Bulgarian Internet Society, a non-profit, of which he serves as President and chairman of the Board.

In March 2002 Mr. Markovski was appointed as Chairman of the Bulgarian President’s IT Advisory Council, a position he held until the President stepped down from office at the end of his second term on January 22, 2012.

In 2005 he was invited to be the senior international projects adviser to the chairman of the governmental Agency for Information Technologies and communications, a position that he held until 2009. He was also adviser to the Bulgarian national cybersecurity coordinator from 2009 till 2013.

Since the beginning of his career, Mr Markovski has been involved in different international organizations and programs on different levels – as project manager, adviser, senior adviser, advocate for policy changes, mediator, board member, etc. He has served on the Boards of CPSR, ISOC, ICANN, among others.

Widely recognized as a computer geek and expert in cyber, Mr. Markovski is a frequent speaker at international conferences, and is often being approached for advice by companies, organizations, and governments.