Professor Dr Paul Timmers

Prof Dr Paul Timmers is a Dutch policy expert and academic. Prof Dr Timmers served as Director at the European Commission's DG CONNECT (2011-2016). His work focused on legislation, regulation and funding for programmes on cybersecurity, e-identity, digital privacy, digital health, smart cities and e-government. 

Prof Dr Timmers was also a member of the Cabinet of European Commissioner Erkki Liikanen and a member of the European Commission's regulatory scrutiny board. Prof Dr Timmers holds a Physics PhD from Radboud University and an MBA from Warwick University, as well as an EU fellowship from the University of North Carolina and cybersecurity qualifications from Harvard. 

Prof Dr Timmers joined the University of Oxford's at the Department of Politics and International Relations and Oxford Internet Institute, as Visiting Fellow and Research Associate from 2018-2024. Currently he is a professor at KU Leuven and the European University Cyprus, focusing on geopolitics and technology. He is co-author of the EuroStack report on digital sovereignty for Europe. He is Senior Advisor to the European Policy Centre in Brussels and the regulatory thinktank CERRE, was Chair of the Supervisory Board of the eGovernance Academy in Estonia (2019-2025) and is member of the advisory council of Common Good Cyber Fund.