Shushan Doydoyan, PhD, is the founder and president of the Freedom of Information Center of Armenia since 2001. Ms. Doydoyan is an FOI activist who initiated and promoted adoption of the Armenian FOI Law in 2003. Mrs. Doydoyan was a Steering Committee member of the FOI Advocates Network in 2004-2006. She was also one of the founder members of the Access Info Europe. Her current work includes providing FOI trainings for civil servants and civil society groups, monitoring of implementation of the FOI Law of Armenia, organizing wide public campaign, providing legal advisory to the general public on access rights, developing manuals and handbooks both for the general public and public servants of Armenia on how to use and how to implement the Armenian FOI Law.

Mrs. Doydoyan is a professor at Journalism Department, Yerevan State University. She teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in “Media Law” and “Media Ethics”.  She has published more than 50 articles in both popular and scholarly journals on the subject of Freedom of Information. As a reporter, she worked for the Reporters Without Borders, Armenian Public Radio, Internews/Armenia and the Association of Investigative Journalists of Armenia.

She has law and journalism backgrounds and is a Doctor of Philology since 2001.

Statement of Interest

My interest to be involved in the FOIANET Steering Committee is based on 2 main reasons:

1.  To realize more fresh ideas and activities more targeted at young people around the world to bring access to information benefits for meeting their interests and needs;

2.   To contribute to the growth of FOIANet, also involving more civic activists and NGOs from the Post Soviet union region with the most secrecy traditions.