Michel
Bosco
Born in Nice, France, in 1961, Dr. Michel Bosco
received his Engineering Degree (M. Sc.) from the French National School for
Civil Engineering in 1984, and his Doctorate with honors in the field of
Computer Systems from the French National School for Space and Aeronautics in
1988. He has then be a Senior Researcher with the Center for Studies of the
French Ministry for Transport and Civil Works, and a Professor with the
University of Massachusetts.
He has contributed to, and led research projects in
France, in the United States of America, and he designed award-winning European
projects in the field of Database Systems, Transport Telematics and Software
Engineering. He has published numerous articles in computer science and science
policies, and was invited to the Ilya Prigogine Seminar "To Think
Science". He received a NATO fellowship for his research in 1990.
He joined the European Commission in 1990, when he was
appointed a scientific officer in charge of monitoring pan-European research
projects in the field of computer science. He then moved to the management of
international research and technology funding programs in the field of
information technologies.
Until early 2003 he was the Head for International
Cooperation in Europe's 4 billion Euro Information Society Technologies (IST)
Program (1998-2002). He has been the architect and the technical manager of the
200 million Euro European Union economic cooperation programs for the promotion
of the Information Society in the Mediterranean countries (EUMEDIS), Latin
America (@LIS), and the Asian countries (Asia IT&C). He designed several
science and technology cooperation schemes and financial arrangements between
the European Union and agencies in the United States of America, Brazil,
Turkey, and other emerging economies. He also lead the efforts of the European
Commission towards the expansion of the pan-European Research network, GEANT,
to the rest of the world, and, since the early years right after the Fall of
the Berlin wall, he was actively involved in associating the Central and
Eastern European countries with European Union programs. He has engineered
programs aimed at supporting economic growth and reversing the
"brain-drain" in the developing countries and in the countries from
the former Soviet bloc. He served as a European Union diplomat overseas,
heading the aid program department of the European Commission in Guatemala, where
he also steered the design by prominent economic and scientific actors of the national
strategy towards the information society: GuateSi! (2003-2006).
He was then appointed Head Financial Manager of the
Community funds granted to the European Space Agency in the GMES Space program
(2006-2008). In 2008 he joined the European Commission department in charge of
the Galileo global positioning and timing system to lead the project's
international relations and cooperation activities, and to drive the
establishment of the pan-European action plan for the uptake of GNSS
applications.
He is the President of PITCH, the Association for the
Promotion of the International Technological Cooperation for Humanistic-ends,
and he is regularly called for advising policy-makers and industrialists on
issues related to innovation policies and international technological
cooperation.
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