Dr. Jean-Claude Burgelman

Jean-Claude Burgelman is professor of Open Science Policies and Practices at the Free University of Brussels (Faculty of Social Science and Solvay Business School) He retired on March 1st, 2020 from the EC as open access envoy and head of the unit who developed the EC’s polices on open science, the science cloud, open data and access. 

Till 2000 he was a full professor of communication technology policy at the Free University of Brussels, as well as director of the Centre for Studies on Media, Information and Telecommunication. He chaired the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on Innovation and was a member of its Science Advisory Committee.