Biography Thomas De Haan
August 2014

Thomas De Haan is Senior Policy Coordinator at the Ministry of Economic Affairs in The Netherlands. His field of work is telecommunications and internet, and he is active in the areas of international strategy, internet policy and governance, and cyber security. He currently (2014) represents the Dutch government in ICANN’s Governmental Advisory Committee.

Before joining the government (1999) he worked on product development in the telecommunications industry. He was project leader and product manager in Getronics, Philips, Siemens and Alcatel. He has been a researcher at OECD and a consultant at OPTA (national regulatory agency).

Thomas de Haan holds an Engineering Degree from the Technical University Delft in the Netherlands and started his career as an Industrial Designer at Philips Mexicana.

De Haan’s focus is getting private entities and governments to work together to foster an open, free and more secure Internet.