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David Broster joined the European Commission after 15 years working in research and development in the semiconductor industry. From 1989-1998, he was Project Officer in ESPRIT programme (microelectronics). He worked for the EU IST Programme as member of the strategy unit with responsibility for the Advisory Group (ISTAG) that developed the notion of Ambient Intelligence, coordinating ~400M€ of FP5’s budget and its application to Cross Programme Research activities.
From 2003-2006, he was Head of Unit for the eTEN Programme, with an annual budget of 45M€ used to support electronic services validation and deployment in the public interest - portfolio included work in eGovernment, eHealth, eInclusion, eLearning, Trust & Security, plus services for small and medium enterprises.
In 2007, he was appointed Head of Unit for "eGovernment and CIP Operations" which further extended implementation of European-level eServices. He was also responsible for implementation aspects of the "ICT Policy Support Programme" (ICTPSP) which is a part of the Commission's new Competitiveness and Innovation Programme.
He joined IPTS in July 2008 as Head of the Information Society Unit. |
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Clara Centeno has degrees in Telecommunication Engineering and Business Administration. She worked for 13 years in the electronic payments business, on systems, security, technology and regulatory aspects across Europe, providing independent management advice as well as solutions to financial institutions and national and international payment service providers. Her work mostly concentrated on new technology areas, namely debit, credit and electronic purse payment tools, smart cards, Pay-iTV, e-commerce, mobile, multi-application platforms and fraud prediction and detection.
Since 2001, she has been working at IPTS carrying out prospective research on ICT policy areas, such as: Internet payments in general and security and consumer trust in particular, PKI and digital signatures, Internet banking, cyber-security (including skills and training needs, the future of Identity, identity management systems, security and privacy balance, and foresight on Information Society technologies in the enlarged EU). |
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Marc Bogdanowicz is currently managing the 'Information Society and Growth' research activities of the IS Unit. These focus on two main areas: the competitiveness of European industry and its R&D system in a global perspective, and the contribution of European regions and the most recent Member States to the European Information Society. He has a background in Educational Sciences and Adult Training, Organisational Sociology and Medical Science.
Before joining IPTS in 2000, he held successive senior research posts in Belgian universities, where he participated in European activities, networks and observatories. His professional interest in the Information Society dates back to 1993. |
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Ioannis Maghiros is Principal Scientific Officer in the IS Unit, and has been working for the European Commission since 1990 on various research activities in the field of Information and Communication Technologies. He is currently leading a team conducting a techno-economic foresight exercise in the Information Society. He previously led a team working on security and privacy challenges with an emphasis on identity-related technologies such as identity management systems, biometrics and RFID.
Prior to joining the European Commission, he worked for IBM in Greece (1988-1990). He studied Physics in the University of Patras, Greece and holds an MSc. in Computer Science from Birmingham University, UK. |
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Fabienne Abadie joined the IS Unit in September 2006. She is currently in charge of the SIMPHS project which aims at delivering a qualitative and quantitative analysis of the market and innovation dynamics around Personal Health Systems. She is also involved in research on the impact of ICT on sustainability. Until 2008 she was in charge of the EPIS (European Perspectives on the Information Society) project, a prospective study dealing with the future evolution of the creative content industries, foresight in ICTs and policy priority-setting.
Before moving to Sevilla, she worked for the European Radiocommunications Office (ERO) in Copenhagen for 8 years. ERO is the permanent office supporting the Electronic Communications Committee (ECC) of the CEPT. As an expert in charge of regulatory affairs, she has been working with Information Society-related issues, carrying out investigations and writing reports on, for example, satellite licensing, spectrum flexibility, spectrum assignment methods. She has a Masters from the European School of Management ( ESCP-EAP). |
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Kirsti Ala-Mutka's research focusses on topics related to ICT for learning, other eServices and eInclusion. She has been working on different projects looking at the future of ICT for learning and Innovation, such as development on eLearning in the 10 EU New Member States, ICT and learning in an ageing society, and the impacts of social computing for learning and innovation, both in organized and unstructured learning settings.
Kirsti has a doctoral degree in Information Technology (thesis on Computer Science Education) and vocational teacher qualification. From 1996 to 2006, she worked at the Tampere University of Technology as a researcher on ICT-supported learning, and as a lecturer in ICT courses. She has also worked as the project coordinator of a national virtual university network project and education manager for industrial training, as well as an independent consultant and researcher. In 2006, she spent 8 months as a visiting scientist with the Computing Education Research Group at Monash University, Melbourne (Australia). Her research interests are related to applying and developing technologies to support quality of life and work in general, and especially in the area of teaching and learning, as enablers of new approaches. |
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Margherita BACIGALUPO
Tel: +34 954 48 8490
Margherita.Bacigalupo(at)ec.europa.eu
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Margherita Bacigalupo joined the IS Unit as a post doctoral researcher in February 2008 to investigate web 2.0 applications and services and their implications for domestic and personal environments.
She has a PhD in "Telematics and Information Society" (2007 – University of Florence), with a dissertation on Robotics for Dementia Care. Her background is in human-computer interaction.
Before moving to Seville she collaborated with the Interaction Design Lab of the Communication Science Department at the University of Siena and worked as a Human Factors consultant for DeepBlue Research and Consulting (an SME operating in the field of aviation).
Over the past few years, she has worked on a variety of research topics dealing with the design of innovative artefacts to support different working activities, ranging from air traffic management to the non-pharmaceutical treatment of dementia-affected elderly people.
Margherita is particularly focused on user studies and on supporting interaction designers in making design choices by taking into account users’ actual and potential needs.
Her research interests include interactive environments, human-robot interaction and social networks on the Internet. |
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Romina CACHIA
Tel: +34 954 48 8412
Romina.Cachia(at)ec.europa.eu
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Romina Cachia joined the IS Unit as a doctoral researcher in October 2005, working on projects related to social computing, user studies and new media technologies. She has an MA in Digital Media from University of Sussex and a B.Communications from University of Malta. She worked as an ICT Trainee in Bangalore (India), as an EU ICT Coordinator within the Central Information Management Unit of the Office of the Prime Minister (Malta) and currently lectures at the University of Malta.
Her doctoral research explores the transformative role of users as a collective networked force, precipitated by contemporary technological environments, and how this force organises and transforms itself into a co-production entity. |
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Cristiano CODAGNONE
Tel: +34 954 48 8301
Cristiano.Codagnone(at)ec.europa.eu
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Cristiano Codagnone joined IPTS in October 2009 as a Senior Scientist to work mainly in the area of eHealth. He has a degree in Economics from Bocconi University (Italy), and a Ph.D. in Sociology from New York University (1995). Between 1992 and 1994 he was a Visiting Fellow at the Institute of Sociology of the Russian Academy of Science, and from 1995 until 2000 he worked as contract professor at the Institute of Sociology of Bocconi University. He also completed his post doctoral study at Utrecht University in 1996. From 2000 to 2003, he was a faculty member at the Department of Social and Political Studies, Milan State University and from 2003 to 2004, he served as a Project Officer in the United Nations’ “eGovernment for Development” programme.
Since 2004, he has carried out several studies and research projects on eHealth, eInclusion and eGovernment for DG INFSO. He combines an understanding of technologies and technological developments in the field of the Information Society with a fine grained economics and sociological approach, which enables him to uncover the relationships between technologies, economics and societal change and their policy implications. He is an expert in evaluation and impact assessment in the domain of Information Society where he commands both quantitative and qualitative methods. He has also managed for DG INFSO important foresight and future-oriented studies and possesses solid foresight methodological expertise. Finally, he has state-of-the-art knowledge on issues related to user acceptance and appropriation of technologies. |
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Giuditta DE PRATO
Tel: +34 954 48 8483
Giuditta.De-Prato(at)ec.europa.eu
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Giuditta De Prato joined the IS Unit as a post doctoral researcher in January 2009 to contribute to projects on the economic aspects of the Information Society and on the impacts of Information Society Technologies, mainly focusing on ICT R&D, the software sector, patents and innovation. She has a PhD in Economics and Institutions from the University of Bologna (Italy).
Before joining IPTS, she was a software developer and IT consultant from 1992 to 2005. From 2005 to 2009, she was a contract research assistant, focussing on research activities on local development, evaluation, ICT and open source at the University of Bologna, where she also lectured on macroeconomics and environmental economics. |
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Paul DESRUELLE
Tel: +34 954 48 8329
Paul.Desruelle(at)ec.europa.eu
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Paul Desruelle is a senior scientific officer in the IS Unit and coordinates the activities of the team in charge of producing the annual "PREDICT" report on research and development (R&D) in information and communication technologies (ICT) in the European Union. The PREDICT report, jointly published by JRC-IPTS and by the Information Society and Media Directorate General, provides an analysis of EU R&D investments and performance in the ICT sector and benchmarks them at world level.
Prior to joining the IS Unit in 2008, Paul worked for several years in the IPTS Knowledge for Growth Unit. Before joining IPTS, he worked at the European Commission in Brussels, first as a project officer for the ESPRIT and then on the Information Society Technologies R&D programmes. Paul is an engineer, with degrees obtained in France and at University of Wisconsin-Madison, U.S.A. (M.S. and Ph.D.). |
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Anusca FERRARI
Tel: +34 954 48 8299
Anusca.Ferrari(at)ec.europa.eu
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Anusca Ferrari joined the IS Unit in December 2008. She holds a PhD from the University of Bologna (Italy) and Cergy-Pontoise (France) on the image of the city in postcolonial francophone Caribbean literature. She also holds a PGCE (Post-Graduate Certificate of Education) from the University of Chester (UK). She has a background in education and taught in France and the UK for seven years before coming to Seville.
Her current research interests involve technology-enhanced learning, creative and innovative pedagogies and lifelong learning. At IPTS, she is mainly involved in a study on Innovation and Creativity in Education and Training in EU Member States. |
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Alexandra HACHÉ
Tel: +34 954 48 8345
Alexandra.Hache(at)ec.europa.eu
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Alexandra Haché joined the IS Unit in September 2007. She has a PhD in Social Economics (with a focus on Information and Telecommunications Theory) from the University Toulouse-le-Mirail (UTM), France. Her PhD thesis was entitled 'The counter-globalisation movement versus information and communication technologies: uses, practices and values of contemporaneous activism'. She has worked on several research projects dealing with the political and social uses of ICTs developed by civil society - for example, media activism, cyber activism, and the development of open source tools for generating maps, cartographies and data visualisation. In her present post, she will work on an analysis of web 2.0 applications for eInclusion dynamics, and will study how the third sector fights social exclusion by promoting enabled ICTs. |
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Anssi HOIKKANEN
Tel: +34 954 48 8373
Anssi.Hoikkanen(at)ec.europa.eu
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Anssi Hoikkanen joined the IS Unit in November 2008 as a Research Fellow to work on techno-economic foresight and analysis of electronic identity and personal health systems. He graduated from Helsinki University of Technology in 2001, having specialised in Industrial Economics and Telecommunications. He has also studied social sciences and anthropology at University of Helsinki. Before joining IPTS, he worked for Nokia and Nokia Siemens Networks for 8 years in a variety of positions, focusing on techno-economic analysis of new network technologies and services, operator business case assessments, and investment analysis. At IPTS, he wants to leverage his industry expertise for policy support and competitive analysis. |
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Maria Lluch
Tel: +34 954 48 8318
Maria.Lluch(at)ext.ec.europa.eu
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Maria Lluch joined the IS Unit in April 2010 to carry out research on ICT for Health in general and Personal Health Systems and Mobile Health in particular.
She has an MPharm from the Universidad de Barcelona, an MBA from IESE Business School, an MSc International Health Policy - Health Economics and was a PhD reader at the London School of Economics (LSE). Maria started developing her career as a project manager for a London-based consulting firm focusing on health-related projects with customers such as Alliance Unichem and the National Health Service (NHS). She then moved to journalistic projects developing country reports for different media (The Economist, BusinessWeek and Fortune magazine) and lived for 3 years in different countries, mainly on the African continent.
During the last seven years, Maria has developed solid experience in EU-funded projects in the health sector at IESE Business School and at LSE Health. She is a member of the Spanish National Jury for the 2010 EU Health Prize for Journalists. Prior to joining IPTS, she combined both management and research, focusing on cost effectiveness studies, regulatory frameworks in health systems with a specific focus on the pharmaceutical sector and ICT for Health (the latter was her PhD topic). |
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Francisco LUPIAÑEZ VILLANUEVA
Tel: +34 954 48 8206
Francisco.Lupianez-Villanueva(at)ec.europa.eu
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Francisco Lupiañez Villanueva joined the IS Unit in April 2010 to work on economic evaluation and modelling of Personal Health Systems. Before joining IPTS, Francisco was an Associate Professor in the Information and Communication Department of the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC), teaching issues related to the Network Society (Information Policies and ICT, Information Society and Media and Information Society). He also did research at the Internet Interdisciplinary Institute (IN3).
He has a Bachelor's degree in Economics, and a Master's degree in Information and Knowledge Society Programmes from IN3. His PhD thesis entitled "Internet, Health and Society: Analysis of the uses of internet related to health in Catalonia" has been supervised by Manuel Castells. Francisco has also been a visiting researcher at the Science and Technology Studies Unit (SATSU) in the Department of Sociology at the University of York.
His current research focuses on social, economic, cultural and policy issues associated with ICT. He is interested in the relationship between the new technological paradigm and the existing social structure, using modelling and multivariate statistics analysis. Broadly, his research spans health, government, welfare, ICT, digital economy and new media topics. |
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Wainer LUSOLI
Tel: +34 954 48 8271
Wainer.Lusoli(at)ec.europa.eu
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Wainer Lusoli joined the IS Unit in January 2008. He graduated in Political Science from the University of Bologna (BSc, MSc, MA) and has a PhD in Media and Communication from the London School of Economics. Before coming to IPTS, he was a Senior Lecturer in Social and Communication Studies at the University of Chester (UK). Over the last eight years, he has worked on several projects regarding citizen participation, online elections, political representation and new media and the political process.
He is a member of the Internet & Elections Project, reporting on the use of the Internet in electoral campaigns worldwide. He is also an Associate Expert of DEMO-net: the eParticipation Network. In July 2006, he became a member of ARC VOSON (Virtual Observatory for Online Networks: New Forms of Collective Action on the World Wide Web). More recently, he became an Expert Member of the Global Network on ICT in Parliament (United Nations and Inter-parliamentary Union). he has published widely on new media and politics and is on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Information Technology and Politics and the Open Communications Journal. At IPTS, he will be working on a Europe-wide survey of young people's views on new technologies, in relation to identity, privacy and trust. |
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Gianluca MISURACA
Tel: +34 954 48 8209
Gianluca.Misuraca(at)ec.europa.eu
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Gianluca Misuraca joined IPTS in 2009 and is working on ICT for Governance. He is investigating, from a technological and socio/economic point of view, ICT-enabled user-driven innovation in public services areas, and new forms of ICT-enabled governance, in order to support innovation and policy for those public services relevant to the development of the Information Society in Europe.
Before joining IPTS, Gianluca was the Managing Director and Scientific Coordinator of the Executive Master in e-Governance, organized by EPFL. Previously, he worked for the United Nations Public Administration Network (UNPAN), acting as Liaison Officer for Africa. During this time, he was seconded to CAFRAD, where he was responsible for the design and implementation of the e-Africa initiative.
Earlier in his career, Gianluca held several positions as lead consultant and policy advisor for different UN agencies, the World Bank, the European Commission, and bilateral cooperation agencies. He was a Senior Manager at Ernst & Young International where he provided advisory services in the area of public administration reform and regional development. He started his career as an intern for the European Commission DG Development and as a consultant for the APRI Spa, where he was a Member of the "Task Force Innovation" at the Italian Ministry of Research and Technological Development.
Gianluca holds a Degree in Business Administration, a Specialisation Diploma in EU Economics and Law, an Executive Master in e-Governance and he is now finalizing his PhD in Management of Technology at EPFL. He has several publications in the area of ICT for Governance and ICT for Development, including the book "e-Governance in Africa, from
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Daniel NEPELSKI
Tel: +34 954 48 8265
Daniel.Nepelski(at)ec.europa.eu
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Daniel Nepelski joined the IS Unit as a post doctoral researcher in March 2009 to contribute to projects on the economic aspects of the Information Society and on the impacts of Information Society Technologies, mainly focussing on innovation dynamics in the context of the knowledge economy.
Before joining IPTS, he worked at DIW Berlin, the German Institute for Economic Research, as a research associate and policy consultant between 2002 and 2008. His research interests are in the area of Industrial Organization with a particular focus on Innovation Economics and Competition Policy. He holds a PhD in Economics from the Humboldt University Berlin. |
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Stavri NIKOLOV
Tel: +34 954 48 8385
Stavri.Nikolov(at)ec.europa.eu
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Stavri Nikolov started working at the IS Unit in November 2009 and is focussing his research on the areas of digital identity, eID technologies, eID architectures, mobile and enterprise search. Previously, he was Managing Director and Head of Research of Attentive Displays Ltd, a start-up company specialising in designing and developing attentive and interactive information displays for public spaces, which he co-founded in 2007. From 1998 until 2007, Dr Nikolov was a Research Fellow/Senior Research Fellow in Image Processing at the University of Bristol (UK).
His research interests over the years have spanned several areas including image analysis, image fusion, video surveillance, gaze tracking, new methods for data visualisation and navigation, and the construction of attentive and interactive information displays. He has published more than 65 refereed or invited papers, including eight invited book chapters and also numerous technical reports in these areas. He has also given many invited lectures around the world on image processing, information fusion and information visualisation. He is the creator and co-ordinator of The Online Resource for Research in Image Fusion and The Online Archive of Scanpath Data. Dr Nikolov is a member of the British Machine Vision Association, the Applied Vision Association, the International Society of Information Fusion and IEEE. He is the Founding Director of the Digital Spaces Living Lab, a Living Lab in Sofia (Bulgaria) focussing on novel digital media technologies. |
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Yves Paul Firmin PUNIE
Tel: +34 954 48 8229
Yves.Punie(at)ec.europa.eu
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Yves Punie holds a Ph.D. in Social Sciences from the Free University of Brussels (VUB). Before joining the IS Unit in 2001, he was interim Assistant Professor at the VUB and Senior Researcher at SMIT (Studies on Media, Information and Telecommunications).
At IPTS, Yves Punie has worked on Information Society policy issues, the social and technological aspects of Ambient Intelligence in everyday life, the future of the media and the media industries, social capital in the knowledge society and privacy, security and identity in the future information society. Currently, he is project manager for eLearning and is also involved in work on ICT for inclusion and the future of eServices. He has (co)- authored more than 25 publications and presented more then 50 papers on different occasions (conferences, seminars, workshops, etc.). He is also a member of the IPTS Scientific Committee. |
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Christine REDECKER
Tel: +34 954 48 8492
Christine.Redecker(at)ec.europa.eu
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Christine Redecker joined the IS Unit in February 2008. She is primarily working on eLearning, conducting a major study on the impact of web 2.0 applications on learning. She is also working on eInclusion, where she is contributing to research on the use of ICT for ethnic minorities and older people.
She has a PhD in Philosophy of Mathematics from the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Germany, and a Teaching Diploma for secondary education (Erstes & Zweites Staatsexamen). She has worked as a practitioner of eLearning at different institutions in Germany and Denmark and as a lecturer for didactics at the Humboldt-Universität Berlin. Her current scientific interests centre on the impact of ICT for inclusion, the future of teaching and learning, pedagogical innovations, lifelong learning, ageing and demographic change. |
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Gabriel RISSOLA
Tel: +34 954 48 8343
Gabriel.Rissola(at)ec.europa.eu
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Gabriel Rissola joined the IS Unit in June 2010 as a Senior Scientist in Digital Inclusion. He has a degree in Informatics, academic education in Philosophy and Psychology and wide professional experience with multilateral cooperation bodies (European Commission, United Nations agencies). Before joining IPTS he was Director at Dynamic Organization Thinking (D-O-T), a Barcelona-based Research and Consultancy firm he co-founded (from 2003); external Evaluator for the Lifelong Learning programme of the European Commission (from 2004); European Projects Officer for the Foundation of Viladecans City (2005-08); Senior Expert & Evaluator at UNs' Food and Agricultural Organization (1990-91 and 2002-08); head of an eLearning company in Spain (Didacom Iberoamerica, 2001-03) and of a digital media company in Latin America (Faro Latino, Windows Media content provider). He was also the creator and head of RADAr - the first Internet intelligent search engine in Argentina - and leader of ForTel - one of the largest technology-enhanced learning projects in South America- for Telecom Argentina during the ‘90s.
His research interests focus on the field of ICT and Social Innovation. Gabriel has carried out different Action Research and Learning projects around the contribution of Information Society Technologies (IST) to social and educational innovation and inclusion, and its policy implications in Europe and internationally, covering topics ranging from the digital inclusion and lifelong learning of disadvantaged categories of end users (notably migrants) and the enabling role of the Third Sector, to the development of strategies for learning, innovation and cooperation between small economic actors in complex settings (historical centres, rural areas, etc). He has collaborated with DG INFSO in the organization of the e-Inclusion Ministerial Conference (2008). Gabriel has authored/co-authored/edited several publications on ICT and Social Innovation, while having also been author and reviewer for the Journal of International Development and Information Technologies (USA).
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Jean-Paul SIMON
Tel: +34 954 48 8566
Jean-Paul.Simon(at)ec.europa.eu
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Jean-Paul Simon joined the IS Unit in January 2010, where he will be assessing future socio-economic trends and challenges of the European Information Society with a particular focus on prospective analysis (media/telecom) and on the internationalisation of R&D in the IT and telecom sectors. He will also cover media and content related aspects.
Prior to joining IPTS, he was director of JPS Public Policy Consulting, a consulting firm specialising in media/ telecom law and regulation, founded by him in 2007. He was also Director at LECG (Law and Economics Consulting Group) a global economics and finance consulting firm. Previously, Jean-Paul held various positions in the telecom industry, including Senior Vice-President, International Regulatory Strategy, Regulatory Affairs Directorate at Orange - France Telecom Group (2001-2006) and Head of European Regulation (1996-2001), Head of Prospective (1991-1996). At the European Public Telecommunications Network Operator’s association (ETNO) he was Chairman of Markets and Technology Trends (2005-2006) Working Group, of the Repositioning Task Force (2004) and of the Working Group on Interconnection Pricing (1997-1998). In 1985, he joined the National Centre for Telecommunications Research (CNET), the research branch of France Telecom where he was in charge of the social science unit (usage social de la telecommunication). In the seventies, he worked as a consultant and for the newspaper industry (publisher).
He has a Ph.D. in Philosophy (1975) and is a graduate in econometrics from the Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales (1971). Jean-Paul has written several books and articles on communications and public policy. He is also a frequent speaker on telecommunications and media in Europe and the USA. |
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Juraj STANCIK
Tel: +34 954 48 8415
Juraj.Stancik(at)ec.europa.eu
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Juraj Stancik joined IPTS in June 2010 to work on the International Digital Economy Analysis project. He will carry out research on the ICT industry, ICT R&D expenditures and employment, ICT-enabled innovation, ICT economic impacts and the contribution ICT could make to the transformation of the EU economy in the future.
Juraj has a Ph.D. in Economics from the Center for Economic Research and Graduate Education in Prague. He spent 5 months in the Economic and Financial Studies division of the European Investment Bank as a research intern. In 2007, he was a visiting scholar at the School of Arts and Sciences of the University of Pennsylvania. Juraj also holds a M.Sc. in Mathematics of Economy and Finance from Comenius University in Bratislava. His areas of interest cover international economics and econometrics. |
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Wojtek SZEWCZYK
Tel: +34 954 48 8276
Wojciech.Szewczyk(at)ec.europa.eu
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Wojtek Szewczyk joined the IS Unit in March 2010 to work on the quantitative and modelling aspects of the Digital Economy. He has a degree in Engineering (Materials) from the Silesian University of Technology in Poland, a Masters degree in Engineering Management from the University of Western Sydney and a PhD in Economics ("APEC Digital Divide: Economic Policy Implications'') from Macquarie University in Sydney.
Since then, he has worked on a variety of research projects related to the impact of ICT technology on production and consumption, and measuring the sectoral productivity flow-on benefits of innovations in IT. Wojtek's interests focus on economic growth and dynamics, the impact of ICT and other General Purpose Technologies (GPTs) on socio-economic development and Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) modelling. |
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Geomina TURLEA
Tel: +34 954 48 8219
Geomina.Turlea(at)ec.europa.eu
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Geomina Turlea joined the IS Unit in April 2005 as a Research Fellow working on a research training project entitled 'R&D in the ICT sector: Situation, outlook and impact on the European ICT sector'. She has a PhD ('Econometrics of short and volatile time series') from the Romanian Academy of Sciences (2003).
She was previously employed by the Institute for World Economy in Bucharest, Romania and has worked with various national and international institutions and organisations in academic research projects. She has also carried out consultancy for policy makers and private agents. Her main interests are in macromodelling and applied econometrics, particularly as regards the knowledge economy and endogenous growth. |
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