Since 1984 George Metakides has held Senior positions with responsibility for R&D policy, funding and international co-operation in European institutions, also as President of the Research Group of the European Council, and member of the ESPRIT (European Strategic Programme of Research in Information Technology) Management Committee, as well as the NATO Science Committee (between 1984 and 1987.) Mr. Metakides founded and headed the department for Basic Research and International Scientific Relations in Information Technologies at the European Commission from 1988 to 1993. He was the Director of the ESPRIT Programme in the European Commission's Industry Directorate General from 1993 until its completion in 1998. Until November 2002 he was director of Essential Technologies and Infrastructures in Europe Information Society Technologies (IST) Programme (1998-2002), in the Information Society Directorate General which - besides funding and coordinating R&D in Information and Communication Technologies in the European Union - also covers Information Society and telecommunications policy and regulation.
George Metakides