Michel SCHOUPPE

Dr. Michel SCHOUPPE is Senior Expert and team leader on the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) within the Open Science Unit of the European Commission's Directorate-General for Research and Innovation (DG R&I). He has joined the European Commission in 1998. For more than 20 years, he has been responsible for the development of R&I policies and the management of EU research framework programmes in the fields of Earth observation, global observing and forecasting systems, ICT for crisis management, web sensors for the monitoring of the environment and environmental technologies for water supply and sanitation. He has been representing the Commission in various international boards and committees (e.g. Belmont Forum, the Water JPI, GMES/Copernicus, GEO/GEOSS, IGOS-P, CEOS, ESA, NASA).