Erik Huizer

CEO GÉANT

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Erik Huizer was appointed interim CEO of GÉANT  in July 2017. ​​ Former CTO at SURFnet, the Dutch national academic and research network. 

For over 30 years he has been involved in education and research networking, Internet standardization and Internet governance. For his contributions to the Internet he has been inducted into the Internet Hall of Fame in 2014. In 2015 he was honored with the title of Dutch ICT personality of the year.

Until 2015 he served as part-time professor Internet Applications at University of Utrecht. He remains a research associate at this university.

He has been teaching at various developing countries workshops on Internet policy and technology. He is a TEDx speaker.

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