He is professor and research manager on ‘Information Management in the Public Sector’ at the Public Governance Institute in KU Leuven. He is also secretary-general of EuroSDR – an European Spatial Data Research network linking national mapping and cadastral agencies with academic institutions across Europe for doing applied research. In addition, he is founder of the joint master programme ‘Public Sector Innovation and E-Governance’. His main research topics refer to e-governance, digital transformation, (spatial) data infrastructures and open data ecosysytems. Finally, he is involved in numerous (inter)national projects somehow related to these research topics.
He is the Secretary-General of EuroSDR, a European Spatial Data Research Network
Other EU projects, Spatialist (2007-2011), Terra Mosana (2018-2021), Digi4FED (2020-22), Flexpub (2016-2020), Its4land (2016-2020), EIF4SCC (2020-21), ELISE (2021-22), etc.
Education
- PhD Wageningen University, the Netherlands
- MSc Wageningen University and ITC Twente University, The Netherlands - Geographical Information Science for rural applications
- MSc Wageningen University, The Netherlands - Soil Science
