Frank Robben

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Frank Robben (b. 16 March 1961) is a Belgian lawyer and specialist in legal informatics and social security. He is general manager of the Belgian Crossroads Bank for Social Security, which he conceived and founded. The crossroads bank is part of the Belgian eGovernment initiative.

1 Education
2 Career
3 Awards
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[edit] Education

He graduated in law at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in 1984 with a specialization in legal informatics and social security. In 1985 he further specialized at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen and the Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Social Law in Munich. In 1987 he obtained a postgraduate in computer auditing at the University of Antwerp (IPO) and obtained an MBA at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in 1992.

[edit] Career

Frank Robben is co-founder of and researcher at the Interdisciplinary Centre for Law and Information Technology (ICRI) at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven and lectures on business administration at the faculty of law of the university. He is general manager of the Crossroads Bank for Social Security and CEO of Smals, an ICT-service provider for the Belgian social security sector. Frank Robben is co-founder and a member of the Board of Directors of BeHealth and the Belgian Health Telematics Commission. In addition he is strategic advisor at Fedict, where he developed the concept of the electronic identity card and the company register. He provides advice on the general information security and privacy protection policy of the Belgian federal government. He is a member of several commissions on eGovernment providing advice to the Belgian and Dutch government and the European Union.