Klaus Birkenbihl, CEO of the ict Media GmbH, started his career at the GMD National Research Lab for Information Technology. After some research in Software Technology he was appointed manager of GMD's Computing Center in Bonn in 1981. He had teaching assignments for Computer Science at the University of Cologne and the University of Applied Sciences Bonn-Rhein-Sieg. He participated in many projects on Research Networks since 1982 and was head of the department for Computer Networks and the Computer Networks and Society group in GMD. Starting from 1997 he was also manager of the Germany Austria Office of the World Wide Web Consortium. He continued this work after GMD merged with Fraunhofer in 2000. In 2006 he left Fraunhofer and launched in 2007 his own Company ict Media GmbH. As CEO of this company is a.o. contracted by W3C to co-ordinate the W3C World Offices. Klaus also is or was member of the Advisory Board or Supervisory Board of several companies and served as IT Executive Expert for the Shengen Treaty.
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