Doron Avni leads and manages Google's public policy team across Africa, Middle East, Russia, Israel, Ukraine and Turkey - building strategies, projects and outreach across different issues, markets and organizations. He has been with the company for more than 7 years developing Google’s policy campaigns on cutting edge technology issues like innovation, artificial intelligence, digital literacy, entrepreneurship and controversial content. He is a passionate advocate for the empowering, open and enabling nature of the internet and its potential for emerging economies. Prior to joining Google he served as the Legal Counsel of the Israeli Regulator of the Media, and as an associate in a leading law firm in Jerusalem. He holds an MJur from Oxford University, specializing in European and comparative law, and a MPA from Harvard Kennedy School.