Major General Oleksandr Potii

• Chairman
• State Service of Special Communications and Information Protection (SSSCIP), Ukraine

Major General Oleksandr Potii earned his PhD in communication security from Kharkiv Military University and subsequently obtained a Doctor of Technical Sciences (DSc) from the Ivan Kozhedub Kharkiv National Air Force University. His primary research focuses on information security standards, cybersecurity, and cryptography.
Major General Potii has more than 25 years of distinguished military service alongside 20 years of academic and teaching experience. Before his appointment to the State Service of Special Communications and Information Protection of Ukraine, he held various senior technical and administrative positions at prominent academic institutions, including the Kharkiv National University of Radio Electronics and the National Aerospace University “Kharkiv Aviation Institute”.
In his current role as Chairman, Major General Potii is responsible for a range of strategic areas, including the development and implementation of state policies in cybersecurity, technical and cryptographic information protection, special communications, critical infrastructure protection, and countering technical intelligence.
Oleksandr Potii is a laureate of the Borys Paton National Prize of Ukraine (2021). He has authored five textbooks and more than 100 research articles.