19 Facts About Kees Neggers

Cornelis Adrianus Maria "Kees" Neggers was born on 20 July 1947 and is a Dutch Internet pioneer.

Kees Neggers is best known for starting and promoting many initiatives for international collaboration in research and education networking.

Kees Neggers started his career as a staff member of the permanent committee advising the Dutch Ministry of Education and Sciences on computing infrastructure.

Kees Neggers worked at the Computing Centre of the University of Groningen from 1975 until 1984.

In 1984, Kees Neggers joined the Computing Centre at the Catholic University of Nijmegen as deputy director.

On 13 June 1986, Kees Neggers was present when Reseaux Associes pour la Recherche Europeenne, the European association of national research and education networks, was incorporated in Amsterdam.

Kees Neggers served as Treasurer of the association until 1990, as vice-president from 1990 until 1992, and as president from 1992 until the European Academic and Research Network association was merged with RARE and RARE changed its name to TERENA on 20 October 1994.

Kees Neggers joined the TERENA Executive Committee again as vice-president for Services from 1997 until 1999, and as Vice-president Technical Programme from 1999 until 2001.

In November 1987 Kees Neggers participated in the first meeting of the Co-ordinating Committee for Intercontinental Research Networking, which was held in Washington, DC He was appointed by RARE as the European CCIRN co-chair in 1988 and continued in that position until the final full CCIRN meeting in Reykjavik in 2011.

In 1991, Kees Neggers was one of the people leading the initiative to create a project called Ebone as an interim solution while the European research networking community made the transition from OSI to IP.

Kees Neggers represented RARE as a Founding Member of the Internet Society when that organisation was founded in 1992.

Kees Neggers served as a trustee of the Society appointed by RARE from 1992 until 1996, and as an elected member of the Board of Trustees from 1998 until 2004.

Kees Neggers was one of the organisers of first Annual Global LambdaGrid Workshop, which was held in Amsterdam on 11 September 2001.

Kees Neggers was one of the initiators of the creation of NetherLight, the GLIF Open Lightpath Exchange in Amsterdam, and represented SURFnet in the GLORIAD initiative since its inception in 2003.

In July 2012, Kees Neggers retired from his position at SURFnet, but continued as a strategic advisor to the SURF Foundation and as one of the Dutch representatives in the e-Infrastructure Reflection Group.

In July 2014, Kees Neggers took up the job as interim director of SURF.

In 2002, Boudewijn Nederkoorn and Kees Neggers were jointly elected ICT Personality of the Year by the Dutch ICT-Office.

On his retirement from SURFnet in 2012, Kees Neggers was appointed Officer of the Order of Orange-Nassau.

Kees Neggers was inducted into the Internet Hall of Fame in August 2013.