Curriculum Vitae - Mr. Christopher Richard Wilkinson
Christopher Wilkinson is presently Adviser in DG XIII (Information Society: Telecommunications, Market, Technologies - Innovation and Exploitation of Research) at the European Commission. He has been responsible for coordinating the European position on the reform of the organisation and management of the Internet. Following a career with the Commonwealth Secretariat, OECD and the World Bank, Mr. Wilkinson joined the European Commission as Head of Division in 1973 following UK membership of the EU. He has worked successively as Head of Division, in Regional Policy (reconversion lending for the coal and steel areas), Industrial Affairs, Information Technology and Telecommunications. From 1986 to 1993, he was responsible for international aspects of information technology and telecommunications where he played an active part in the science and technology and telecommunications aspects of the EEA and Uruguay Round negotiations. He led the Commission/European Parliament joint exploratory missions on science and technology to Hungary and Czechoslovakia in 1990 and participated in the exploratory S&T mission to Moscow. He was head of the Commission delegation to the ITU World Radio Conference in 1992. Mr. Wilkinson was educated in England, in Yorkshire and at Cambridge university, where he took degrees in Natural Science and Economics. He has also studied at the London Business School and International Relations at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts. He has taught economics at Holland Park Polytechnic (1962-63) and at the College of Europe, Bruges (1989-90).