Graham Cunningham is Intelecon's London based Legal Associate, who has worked with the firm on numerous legal and regulatory projects throughout Africa and Asia. Mr. Cunningham is an English barrister who obtained his legal qualifications in 1976. He has spent half of his career in industry, partly as a legal director, company secretary and a member of a management team of a successful computer company, and half in private practice. He has been involved in computers and information technology and telecommunications matters for most of his working life.

A substantial part of his career has been spent in drafting, advising on, negotiating and interpreting legal documents. In recent years, his work has become more international in nature. He has drafted telecommunications statutes for Estonia and Rwanda; multi-sector regulatory laws for Botswana, Malawi and Rwanda of which major elements concerned the communications sector; drafted a government telecommunications decree and telecommunications licence for, and provided advice to, the Transitional Authority in Afghanistan; has advised on a multi-sector approach to regulation in South Africa, and Kenya (covering transport, communications and utilities); has advised on regulations for the setting up of the Brazilian telecommunications regulator; has advised on legal, policy and strategy documents for the implementation of universal access regimes in Mongolia and Mozambique; and been involved in attempts to establish an e-banking regime in Nepal.

His UK work has involved him in the drafting of legislation, policy and regulatory statutes, telecommunications licences, tender documentation, rights of way and interconnection issues, substantial litigation concerning telecommunications networks, the mediation of telecommunications disputes, setting up the network of a new telecommunications provider, and competition issues in the telecommunications field.