Naavi –Credentials as a Faculty
Naavi has been a Corporate executive working in the field of Banking and Finance as well as Marketing and Advertising. During over 30 years of his Corporate life, Naavi has also developed a special expertise as a Faculty for a Corporate audience.
Naavi was one of the officers who were specially selected after a competitive screening test from NIBM in 1979 to the post of Faculty Member in Indian Overseas Bank.
During this special posting which lasted for 5 years, Naavi was provided special training in Teaching Methodologies, Behavioral Sciences etc at SIET, Hyderabad, NIBM Pune and many in-house training programmes.
During these years, Naavi headed the Bank’s training center in
After the end of the posting as Faculty member in 1984 Naavi moved over to Merchant Banking and later switched over to private sector as a Corporate Executive in 1987. Between 1989 and 2000 when Naavi was heading the Financial Promotions Division and Internet Division of R K SWAMY/BBDO, Naavi was engaged in developing and implementing Strategies for Corporate and Financial Product Marketing.
Since 1997, Naavi started specializing in E-Commerce and picked up Cyber Laws as an area of specialization. He authored the first book on the subject in December 1999 and opened the Cyber Law portal http://www.naavi.org/.
In October 2000, Naavi left RKSWAMY/BBDO as Resident Director
and opened the Virtual College of Cyber Laws viz www.cyberlawcollege.com.
This was a pioneering effort for providing formal education in Cyber Laws in
Cyber Law College initially started with an online course for
“Certificate in Cyber Laws” containing a curriculum similar to what was
observed as a standard curriculum in Australian MBA programmes.
Subsequently, a more detailed programme was
introduced and a unique course in Techno Legal Cyber Security was also
introduced. This is again a one of the kind programme
in the whole world and was conceived keeping in view the need for legal
compliance as a part of IT security environment.
The unique expertise in Cyber Laws, the existence of the
Naavi is a visiting faculty in a number of institutions IDRBT.
Naavi has also conducted Cyber Law classes for
Journalists undergoing Diploma Course in Journalism at the
Naavi has been a member of several working groups of the Ministry of Communication and Information Technology, Government of India on Cyber Laws and Cyber Security. He has also a member of the e-Governance advisory committee of Government of Karnataka and one of the Trustees of the International Institute of IT Law. Naavi is presently the Chairman of the NIC sub committee on Legal Enablement of E-Governance (G2C).
Naavi has also conducted series of courses on Cyber Crimes for TN police at the Police Training College, Chennai.
Naavi has also conducted in-house training programmes on Cyber Laws and HIPAA in various Companies.
Currently, Naavi has been conducting various courses in Cyber
Laws in Cyber Laws at
Naavi is one of the few specialists in Cyber Laws available in
List of
Seminars and Workshops conducted/participated in by Naavi