Marius Snyders (1973) is employed by the European Commission DG Information Society as expert in the context of the European Digital Library policy development. Before entering the European Commission in 2005 he has worked for 7 years as senior policy advisor to the Dutch national government in the areas of ICT and digitisation. In that capacity he led the design of a national digitisation policy and large funding scheme. Prior to that, Marius worked for various large publishers where he got involved in internet publishing strategy development for the first time. Marius has an academic background in geography and political science.