Baharul I.

Baharul is a legal practitioner, university faculty, international consultant for the United Nations, and CEO of an international development organisation.

He works in the area of law, Information Technology, Cyber Crime, Governance, Rural Development, Poverty Reduction, Gender, Information Society, Development Communication, and Knowledge Economy for more than a decade.

With a Master's and Doctorate in English, his basic strength lies in all kinds of writing, editing, web-content development, and legal drafting. With a Master of Law (LLM) in Information Technology & Telecoms Laws from the University of Strathclyde (UK), he specialised in Information Technology Law, Cyber Crimes, Intellectual Property Rights of software, and Liability in Information Society. He has worked as a Consultant with the United Nations (Asia and Africa).

Baharul wrote for the Encyclopedia of Digital Governance (2006), appeared on BBC World Debate (2006), and was awarded Certificates of Recognition by the World Bank.

With a diverse set of career mobility in his own CV - from a college teacher, to university professor, Director of non-profit organisations, and later at different diplomatic levels and legal advisory services, this expert has a vast canvass of training expertise in career choices, workforce retention, and rejuvenation. He has worked for more than ten years in the UN, International Organisations, Universities, and NGOs. In applications of his professional knowledge in global consultancy works as a head of an international NGO and being a practising lawyer in the High Court, he brings in sufficient innovative input to the assignments in terms of new ideas and strategies beyond the traditional approaches to consulting.

He has been working in the area of Institutional Development, Teaching, Research, ICT Policies, and e-Government in Asia and Africa. He has MA, LLB, B.ED, PhD, Post-Doctorate (AIT, Bangkok), and LLM (IT & Telecom Law, Strathclyde (UK)) degrees.

He started his career as a university faculty and taken keen interest in broadening the education and training area to "workforce creation" and individual career mobility planning, whereby the employer and the employee both enjoy a win-win paradigm. He is especially attracted to marginalised areas of work, labour, and mainstream working professionals in large companies. He handles the issues like individual strengths and weaknesses, regional and inter-disciplinary aspects of the global market today, boosts internal workforce conflict resolution, recovery, and reconstruction under challenging circumstances.

He strongly believes in teamwork and adds value to assignment/projects that build a strong support base for their sustained growth through knowledge sharing across borders and providing individual mentorship in the post-training period. His works generate impact through:

• Strong research, and comparative analysis;
• Application of global perspectives in local contexts;
• Positioning of the output in a holistic manner within individual and organisational goals.

Baharul's specialties include:

• Legal drafting and consulting on Information Technology, Cyber Crime, Governance;
• Developer of strategies, policies, and plans for Information Technology & Development;
• Senior Faculty, Research Supervisor in Law, Communication Methods, Poverty Reduction, Gender, Information Society, Development Communication, and Knowledge Economy;
• Senior level administration and management of international projects;
• Research studies and baseline surveys.