Erik Huizer

Erik Huizer - Vice-Chair, Public Interest Registry

Erik Huizer is chief strategy officer responsible for strategy, innovation and business development with NOB Cross Media Facilities, a Technicolor company. He is also part-time professor of Internet applications at University of Utrecht. One of the topics he is currently involved in is video over Internet. Huizer also teaches at various developing countries' workshops on Internet policy and technology.

From May 2000 to December 2004, he was a part-time professor for Internet applications at Twente University. Prior to being a part-time professor, he was managing director of the SURFnet Expertise Center (SEC) through June 2000. He was strongly involved with the GigaPort project, the Dutch project for the next-generation Internet.

Huizer has worked for SURFnet on projects that dealt with developing and introducing new services. He also initiated and participated in several European Union projects, including the DESIRE 4th framework project. From December 1991 to April 1995, Huizer was area director for the Applications area of the Internet Engineering Task Force as well as a member of the Internet Engineering Steering Group. From 1995 through 2002, he was a member of the Internet Architecture Board. From 1999 to 2002, he was chairman of the Internet Research Task Force.

Huizer currently chairs the Dutch national IPv6 Task Force. He serves on the Board of Trustees for the Stichting Internet Domeinregistratie Nederland (the .nl ccTLD registry); the Board of Trustees of the Internet Society; the Advisory Board of Internet Society in the Netherlands; the Advisory Board of the SURFnet; the Kennisnet Innovation Program; and the Advisory Board for the Media and Entertainment management program at the CHN University Netherlands.

He has served on the Board of Directors of Eurofiber. He was member (later chairman) of the board of the Amsterdam Digital City (DDS) as well as chairman of the board of The European Internet Seminars Foundation. Furthermore, he was a member of the Dutch Expert Group on Broadband, a member of the commissie Andriessen (FttH for the city of Amsterdam), a pioneer member of the Internet Society, and co-founder of Electronic Commerce Platform NL and the Dutch chapter of the Internet Society.