Daniel is Director Social Media and PoliTech Founder at Fondation EurActiv-PoliTech [www.euractiv.com]. Prior, Daniel was President & Executive Director of POLITECH INSTITUTE - European Center of Political Technologies. Daniel benefits from unique insight both at an academic as well as a practical level of today's Internet-based technological innovation in an increasingly global and interrelated world. He holds a Master Degree in International Relations from the 'Centre d’Etudes des Relations Internationales et Stratégiques' (CERIS-ULB) at Brussels University (Belgium) and an MBA degree in 'Entrepreneurship and Technological Innovation' from Swinburne University of Technology (Australia). He is also a certified Webmaster from John Bryce Training Center in Tel Aviv (Israel). In the framework of his activities, he manages the team work, the organisation finances and external contacts with partners and stakeholders and he contributes to European RTD projects, develops innovative concepts, organises seminars and lectures at events and workshops within high profile international conferences. Daniel is joint editor-in-chief of the European Review of Political Technologies, a unique pan-European periodical and policy-shaping instrument bridging the converging domains of Political Technologies. He is also a member of various Steering and Scientific Committees and has published various articles in different academic reviews. Daniel is an official member of the “Commission pour le dialogue sur l’Europe” of Saint-Gilles Municipality, and Secretary General of the European Institute for International Relations. He is also lecturing in seminars for civil servants of EU Member States organised on a regular basis by the European Institute of Public Administration, Maastricht, NL. In 2007, he was rapporteur for the Council of Europe Conference on eDemocracy on the use of Web 2.0 to strengthen Democracy. His report contributed to the recommendations on eDemocracy of the COE. Specialties • Political Technologies: ePolitics, eDemocracy, eParticipation, eDiplomacy, eCitizenship, eGovernance and eGovernment • European multi-level governance • Organization & conceptualization of workshops, training and events i.e: “The European Dimension Strategies and Methods for Governance, Politics and Democracy in Cyberspace” for leaders & executives in private & public sectors • Conceptualization & implementation of e-strategies in the public sphere • European RTD in the public sphere