Daniele Rizzi has a degree in civil engineering from the Politecnico di Milano University. He spent most of his professional life working on the development of information and communication systems and tools, in particular in the domain of spatial information, both in the private and the public sector. Daniele joined the European Commission in 1993, where from 2004 to 2012 he worked on the adoption and implementation of a European spatial data infrastructure (INSPIRE). Since December 2012 he contributes to the development of policies in support to the European data economy in Commission’s Directorate-general for Communications Networks, Content and Technology; he works in particular on the deployment of a European infrastructure supporting open data data access and re-use.