Thibaut Kleiner is Head of Unit Network Technologies in the European Commission Directorate-General for Communications Networks, Content and Technology (DG CONNECT). Previously Thibaut was Advisor to Vice-President Neelie Kroes, supervising Internet policies at large (Net futures, cloud computing, e-ID, Startup Europe, Media & Data, Internet Governance, trust and security). He has worked for the European Commission since 2001, occupying a number of positions, notably in the field of competition policy, where he was head of unit in charge of coordination, and member of Cabinet of Neelie Kroes in her previous mandate, where he notably supervised state aid (including during the banking crisis). An economist by training, he holds a Master from HEC Paris and a PhD from the London School of Economics.