Dear NPOC Colleagues,

I wish to nominate Emmanuel Agbenonwossi for the position of NPOC Secretariat.  He is a Web Journalist and Internet Policy Researcher He is Togolese and bilingual too in both french and English. A brief background of Emmanuel is below.

Emmanuel is the convener of Togo Internet Governance Forum and contributed to several Internet governance research and contributions. He is an active member of Internet Society, ICANN, IGF Academy. He is Togo’s focal point of the African Union flagship project, PRIDA.

Emmanuel is an alumnus of the University of Greenwich (UK), the Central University of Tunisia, the University of Malta, Stanford school of public policy (UK) and the Busan University of Foreign Studies (Korea.)

He holds a Master’s Degree in Journalism, a postgraduate diploma in Cyber-Security, a bachelor degree in Finance and BSc (Hons) in Business Information Technology. He is currently a PhD candidate with the Daniel J. Evans School of Public Policy and Governance at the University of Washington (USA) with a topic focus of information controls and Internet shutdowns in Africa.

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