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Current position

I am a civil servant of the European Commission since 1993. I held several positions within the European Commission. I am currently a project leader at the Directorate General for Informatics. Previously, I held positions within the European Union Publications Office and the Directorate-General Information Society in Luxembourg.

I much prefer to use the term “civil servant” to describe my position, rather than the more common word “official“, which has a more political meaning. A civil servant should be independent and objective, where the official is more of a spokeperson for an administration (in the american sense).

Previous Positions

My previous positions include the management of the IT infrastructure of the trading room of the Paribas Bank in Brussels, now part of Dexia. I had similar positions within the WordPerfect Corporation Brussels Office and Fnac.

Involvement

I am the secretary of the board of directors of the Luxembourg chapter of the Internet Society, which I have chaired for several years. As an aside, and just for fun, I claim the paternity of Dot EU TLD – local copy PDF (60 kb) since 11 December 1996.

I was previously the Interim Secretary of the ISOC-ECC. Current activities include:

• Member of the Board of Trustees of the Internet Society, currently also serving as the chair of the 2009 Elections Committee.
• Member of the At-Large Advisory Committee to the ICANN board and its European council
• Chairman of the Luxembourg IPv6 Task Force
• Board member of the European IPv6 task Force Steering Committee
• WSIS/IGF representative for ISOC-Luxembourg

Personal Interests

I do not have much time left to spend on computer programming. However, I am pretty fluent in PHP, Perl and C. I have made some contributions to open source projects like KDE, SMA and Logwatch. Some of my hacks are available on this site.

Publications, Papers and Conferences (should be updated)

• E-Work Week, Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg 7 November 2000 (French) - Download the PDF
• Un bout d’histoire de l’Internet – Agefi Luxembourg, February 2002 (French) – Download the PDF
• E-Europe 2005 – Overview of Public and Private Sector Planning in the Context of IPv6 Integration- Copenhagen, 2 November 2002
• Les seconds états généraux européens du nommage Internet – Paris,3 July 2003
• Prospective de l’Internet: Vers une nouvelle fracture numérique – Namur, 4 March 2005 (French) Download the PDF
• Video for the Appreciation Evening for Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn, Washington, 10 May 2005
• IT, Society, and Culture – American Chamber of Commerce, Luxembourg, 8 February 2007 Download the PDF
• Future Trends of the Internet, Luxembourg, 28 January 2009 – Download the PDF

Contact Information

E-mail: patrick@vande-walle.eu S-mime or PGP (Key: 0xa46169c7 or here 0xA46169C7 and here: 0xA46169C7)
Jabber: patrick@vande-walle.eu
Skype: patrickvandewalle

Snail mail:
c/o Internet Society Luxembourg,
66 rue de Luxembourg
L-4221 Esch-sur-Alzette
Luxembourg