Aaron SHULL - Africa Think Tank Conference 2016

May 12, 2016
Speakers
Aaron SHULL
Chief of Staff & General Counsel, CIGI, Canada
As CIGI’s managing director and general counsel, Aaron Shull acts as a strategic liaison between CIGI’s research initiatives and other departments while managing CIGI’s legal affairs and advising senior management on a range of legal, operational and policy matters. A member of CIGI’s executive team, Aaron provides guidance and advice on matters of strategic and operational importance, while working closely with partners and other institutions to further CIGI’s mission. He also serves as corporate secretary. Aaron is an expert on cyber security issues. He coordinated the CIGI essay series Governing Cyberspace during a Crisis in Trust. In his introduction, he argues that more robust international norms for cyber security are a national imperative for Canada. P ...

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