Douglas Griffin

Douglas Griffin is a Director of Albany Associates and is an attorney specialising in media and communications issues.  He has worked in the United Arab Emirates providing advice on regulatory issues, in Sudan on a public information campaign related to the peace process in Darfur, and in Iraq on capacity building projects with the media and telecommunications regulator.  He is also advising Jordanian institutions on the establishment of a media law curriculum, the development of an annual media law and policy institute, and other law and policy issues. 

Doug was the lawyer for the Media Development and Regulatory Advisory Team that Albany Associates deployed in Iraq.  In that capacity, he drafted codes and regulations applying to Iraqi media, drafted legal opinions designed to protect the media and public service broadcaster from government influence, drafted procedural rules for administering complaints against media, drafted media legislation for presentation to the Iraqi legislature, and advised the Iraqi interim and transitional governments on the role of independent regulators of media and telecommunications. 

Prior to his position in Iraq, Doug worked with Internews Europe where he assisted media rights advocates in developing countries and was in private practice for five years with the international law firm of Latham & Watkins in New York, Moscow and Paris representing clients on a variety of media and communications matters.