Katrin Nyman-Metcalf

Katrin Nyman-Metcalf is one of Albany’s Associates and is Professor of International and Comparative Law at Audentes International University in Tallinn, Estonia and a regular visiting professor at universities in Georgia, Latvia and Sweden lecturing in public international, EU and comparative law with a special emphasis on communications law. Her PhD from Uppsala University, Sweden (1999) deals with the law of outer space including legal issues related to the use of space for communications.

Apart from her academic work, Professor Nyman-Metcalf is active as an international consultant in the area of communications law (telecommunications and media) as well as infrastructure and general institution building. Projects include regular legal analysis of media and communications legislation for the OSCE and Council of Europe, EU legislative projects and various professional training projects.  In 1998-1999 Dr. Nyman-Metcalf was Head of the Legal Department of the Independent Media Commission (later Communications Regulatory Agency) in Sarajevo, Bosnia Herzegovina and later (until 2004) active as legal advisor to the Agency.

She was also involved as advisor and as member of the first Council of the broadcast regulator in Kosovo (until 2007) and is currently involved in training the Iraqi communications regulator. Dr. Nyman-Metcalf has published extensively on international and EU law, including on media issues. She is an Estonian national, resident in Tallinn and speaks seven languages.