Christiaan van der Valk
Christiaan co-founded TrustWeaver in 2001. He was elected a World Economic Forum (WEF) Global Leader for Tomorrow in 2000. Until 2001, he worked at the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC)’s Paris-based secretariat as Deputy Director of Policy and Business Practices and member of the executive staff committee. Christiaan was the driving force behind the Global Action Plan for Electronic Commerce for the Alliance of Global Business that between 1997 and 2002 was recognized as the most authoritative global business view on e-commerce regulation. Christiaan has been closely involved with international and European policy and standards projects in the fields of e-commerce and in particular security, privacy and e-signatures. As an adviser to the Finnish Ministry of Trade and Industry, he authored the 2001 Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM) E-Commerce Principles. Christiaan co-chairs the ICC EBITT Commission’s Task Force on Security and Authentication. He also sits on the Supervisory Board of the .nl domain registry foundation (SIDN), and is a member of the Executive Board of the Dutch ENUM Foundation.
