Christian Reimsbach-Kounatze is an Information Economist/Policy Analyst at the OECD Directorate for Science, Technology and Innovation (STI), where he has been working on topics related to the digital economy since 2008 and more specifically on data governance since 2010.

Since 2010, Christian has been leading OECD projects on data governance including: the OECD project on Data-driven Innovation, Enhancing Access to and Sharing of Data, and Data Portability. He is currently co-ordinating Phase III of the OECD Going Digital Project that focusses on Data Governance for Growth and Well-being, and is leading OECD work on “Emerging Privacy Enhancing Technology: Maturity, opportunities and challenges”.

Before joining the OECD, Christian worked as a researcher at the Institute for Information and Market Engineering of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and at SAP Research (Germany). Christian holds a Diploma in Information Science, Engineering and Management and in Economics, both granted by the KIT.

Steve Pawlowski is corporate vice president of advanced computing solutions at Micron Technology. He is responsible for defining and developing innovative memory solutions for the enterprise and high performance computing markets.

Prior to joining Micron in July 2014, Steve was a senior fellow and the chief technology officer for Intel’s Data Center and Connected Systems Group. His extensive industry experience includes 31 years at Intel, where he held several high-level positions and led teams in the design and development of next-generation system architectures and computing platforms.

Steve earned bachelor’s degrees in electrical engineering and computer systems engineering technology from the Oregon Institute of Technology and a master’s degree in computer science and engineering from the Oregon Graduate Institute. He also holds 58 patents.