is a partner at KPMG in the Netherlands where he leads the data and analytics practice and is professor in Big Data Ecosystems at the University of Amsterdam. He holds a PhD in High Energy Physics and worked on a number of projects for CERN, the world’s largest physics institute in Geneva. He contributed to the research of the ATLAS experiment that resulted in the discovery of the Higgs Boson (Nobel prize 2013). His best-selling book We are Big Data about the future of our information society was runner-up in the management book of the year election of 2015 and is published in Dutch and English. His new book Trust in a Smart Society appeared in 2017 and was leading the management book charts in the Netherlands after its introduction. It has been nominated for book of the year by the order of organization advisors and will appear in English in October 2018.
