Alexander Seger

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Alexander Seger is from Germany and holds a PhD in political science, law and social anthropology after studies in Heidelberg (Germany), Bordeaux (France) and Bonn (Germany). He was with the Council of Europe in Strasbourg, France, from 1999 to September 2025 where from 2011 he was responsible for the framework of the Convention on Cybercrime (“Budapest Convention”), including as Executive Secretary of the Cybercrime Convention Committee in Strasbourg and as Head of the Cybercrime Programme Office of the Council of Europe in Bucharest, Romania (www.coe.int/cybercrime). Prior to that he headed the Economic Crime Division where he was in charge of the Council of Europe’s cooperation programs against, corruption, organized crime, cybercrime and money laundering. From 1989 to 1998 he was with what now is the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime in Vienna (Austria), Laos, Pakistan and Afghanistan, and a consultant for German Technical Cooperation (GTZ) in drug control matters.

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In this pool photograph distributed by the Russian state agency Sputnik, Russia's President Vladimir Putin chairs a Security Council meeting via a videoconference at the Kremlin in Moscow on July 25, 2025. (Photo by SERGEI ILYIN/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

Russian Motivations Behind the “Hanoi Convention” Against Cybercrime

Oct. 7, 2025 Alexander Seger