Paul Timmers
Position: Director ICT addressing Societal Challenges
Organization: European Commission
Dr Paul Timmers is Director of the Directorate ICT for Societal Applications in the European Commission, Directorate-General Information Society & Media. Previously, he headed the ICT for Inclusion unit. Before joining the "ICT for Inclusion" unit he was head of the eGovernment unit (EU policy, research and promotion). He has been a member of the Cabinet of European Commissioner for Enterprise and Information Society Erkki Liikanen, responsible for the information society and telecommunications policy portfolios. Other activities in the European Commission included electronic commerce policy and programme development.
Paul Timmers has been a manager in product marketing and head of software development in a large IT company and has co-founded a software start-up. He holds a PhD in theoretical physics from the University of Nijmegen, the Netherlands and an MBA from Warwick Business School, UK. He was awarded an EU Research Fellowship at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, USA in 2009. He has widely published in the field of technology and policy, including a book on electronic commerce strategies and business models, and has been a visiting professor and lecturer at several universities and business schools across the world.
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