Dr. Jacques Bus
Head of Unit - Trust and Security (ICT Programme)
DG Information Society and Media, European Commission

Trust & Privacy in the Future Internet: A research perspective

Jacques Bus studied Mathematics at the University of Amsterdam and obtained his PhD with a thesis in Numerical Mathematics. He worked as a researcher at CWI (Amsterdam) for 15 years. In 1988 he joined the European Commission services and has been working in several jobs in the Esprit and ICT research programmes.

From March 2004 he has taken responsibility for the unit Trust and Security in the ICT Programme, which includes Security of Network and Service infrastructures, Critical Information Infrastructure Protection, Identity and Privacy management, and enabling technologies for trust and security.