Head of Unit for ICT for Inclusion in the European Commission, Directorate-General Information Society & Media

Dr Paul Timmers is Head of Unit of ICT for Inclusion in the European Commission, Directorate-General Information Society & Media. Previously he headed 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 was 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 has also recently finished an EU Research Fellowship for the European Commission at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA. He has widely published, including a book on electronic commerce strategies and business models and has been a visiting professor, research fellow and lecturer at several universities and business schools.