Gijs Hillenius is an international specialist on Digital Government, helping public services – small, national, and supranational – develop their digital government policies and actions. In addition, he is an IT journalist with more than 31 years of experience. His work has appeared in German, Dutch, and English publications.

He has worked for the European Commission’s Open Source Observatory (OSOR.eu) since 2007, and is the OSOR expert team leader since 2012.