Maarten Botterman is Director of GNKS Consult, a company with strong associations to other research institutes and leading international researchers committed to working together on policy development: making things happen, in a sustainable way. For this GNKS and its associates aim to inform policy making in the best possible way, with an open mind, conscious of the need to balance interests of stakeholders in a fair and transparant way.  He also has a passion for getting the best out of teams and organisations, by making sure there is a focus on key priorities, and a good use of the passion and abilities of people.

For his work he relies on his knowledge and experience from his work as Information Society Director at RAND (1999 – 2006), as CEO of the Information Assurance Advisory Council (2003 -2006), as Scientific Officer for DG Information Society of the European Commission (1995 – 1999), as Senior Telework Consultant at the Dutch Ministry for Transport, Public Works and Water Management (1992 – 1995), and as Head of ICT at the North Sea Directorate of the same Ministry (1987 – 1992). Next to that he can rely on contact network in Brussels, London, The Netherlands and Washington DC.

Currently he is also Chairman on the Board of the Public Interest Registry (PIR), responsible for the .ORG domain on the Internet. 

He has been responsible as project manager for international research projects including multidisciplinary, multinational teams from multiple organizations, ranging from Novosibirsk to Denver, ranging from small to large. He a Masters’ degree in Business Economics from the Erasmus University Rotterdam, and a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from the same university.

His excellence is recognized on European information society policy work, including information assurance, critical information infrastructure protection, new ways to work benefiting from ICTs (including telework), and his contributions to governance, sustainable development and inclusion.

In addition, his interpersonal communication skills help to make sure there is an open mind and common understanding on issues that need to be tackled: in other words: making the best out of now, recognising the lessons of the past and realising the unlimited potential of the future. His experience in leading teams since 1987 and international teams since 1995, and his training for Public Sector Manager (1989), Project Management (1988, 1990), Journey® practitioner (2007) and  Conscious Coach® (2009) are important in this.

Maarten currently is associate partner to the Danish Technology Institute, associated as consultant to RAND Europe, non-executive Director on the .ORG Management Board, and Honorary Member of the Information Assurance Advisory Council. He has also been teaching candidates for Master in Information Security Management at the TIAS/NIMBAS Business school.

GNKS stands for “Global Networked Knowledge Society”: a deep understanding that helps understand what it takes to put strategic and policy challenges into the perspective of today’s and tomorrow’s ICT instigated developments.

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Full CV available on LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/botterman.