Leonid Volkov

Founder, Internet Protection Society, Moscow

Leonid Volkov was campaign manager and chief of staff for Alexei Navalny’s 2013 mayoral campaign for Moscow, as well as Alexei Navalny’s attempt to get registered for the 2018 presidential election. Currently, Leonid oversees all regional political operations of the Russia’s Future Party. He is a former deputy of the Yekaterinburg City Duma and the head of the central election committee of the Russian Opposition Coordination Council. Leonid has over 20 years of experience as an IT professional, running and consulting several of Russia’s largest software firms. Together with Fyodor Krasheninnikov he published three editions of “The Cloud Democracy”, a book on how modern technology could re-shape and re-define democracy and elections. Leonid is also founder of the Internet Protection Society, a NGO focused on internet freedom and digital rights in Russia.

Subjects:

Digitalisation, Russia, Technology

Updated: May 1, 2019

Agenda

Digitalisation, Technology

An Antenna Can Outweigh the World’s Biggest Army: Elections in the Digital World

LMC 2019

Side events

Russia

Does the Russian Society Long for a Change? What Role for Civil Society? What Role for Russian Activist Diaspore Abroad?

Another Voices of Russia talk by the Open Estonia Foundation will discuss the possible scenarios and future strategies.

LMC 2019