Chair & Executive Director, OASC
Karl-Filip is Chair of the Governing Body and Executive Director of Open & Agile Smart Cities & Communities, an international cities and communities network supporting its members in their digital transformation journey to find solutions to societal challenges.
He is also Head of the Data, Governance and Communities Unit at the imec research group SMIT of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (imec-SMIT, VUB). The focus of the work of his unit is on governance and business aspects of urban digital transformation and urban innovation, including data spaces, trust in data sharing, local digital twins and personal data management. Currently, he also serves as Senior Policy Advisor Smart Cities, Data Spaces, Local Digital Twins and CitiVerse at FARI, the AI for the Common Good Institute in Brussels.
Before joining SMIT, he served in government for 24 years, working at the local level as Chief Strategy Officer of the City of Ghent and at the Belgian FPS Justice on digital policies and digital transformation programmes. He holds a master of laws degree, specialised in European and International Law.