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, and his name has been quoted in the "Who's Who in Science" since 1991.

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 block. In 2002 he was awarded the title of Grand Ph.D. and Professor of the World Information Distributed University for his achievements in the promotion of global education.

He was then appointed as head the aid program department of the European Commission in Guatemalan where he took an active role in the steering of prominent economic and scientific actors towards the design of a national strategy towards the information society: GuateSi!

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.