Paul Timmers

Paul Timmers is a professor at European University Cyprus and co-founder of the cybersecurity expertise centre Cyber.Cerides, research associate at the University of Oxford (Oxford Internet Institute) and visiting professor at Rijeka University, senior advisor to EPC Brussels, board member of Digital Enlightenment Forum and of the Estonian eGovernance Academy supervisory board and until recently advisor to the European Commission on digital health. Previously he was Director at the European Commission dealing with EU legislation and funding for cybersecurity, e-ID, digital privacy, digital health, smart cities, e-government. He was a cabinet member of European Commissioner Liikanen, manager in a large ICT company, and co-founded an ICT start-up. He holds a physics PhD from Nijmegen University, MBA from Warwick University, was awarded an EU fellowship at UNC Chapel Hill, obtained cybersecurity qualification at Harvard.