Policymaking
- 1986-1988: advisor to the Belgian Minister of Social Affairs Jean-Luc Dehaene
- 1988-1991: advisor to the Belgian Prime Minister Wilfried Martens
- 2000-2001: coordinator of the eGovernment program of the Belgian federal government headed by Guy Verhofstadt, and afterwards founder and first president of Fedict
Research
- 1985: researcher at Max Planck Institute for Social Law and Social Policy in Munich
- 1985-1991: researcher at Institute of Social Law of K.U.Leuven
- 1991-2013: co-founder of and affiliated researcher at Interdisciplinary Centre for Law and Information Technology (ICRI) of K.U. Leuven, nowadays Centre for IT and IP law
Teaching
- 1988-1990: social law at Sociale Hogeschool in Heverlee (Leuven)
- 1990-1996: ICT-law at Erasmushogeschool in Brussels
- 2004-2009: fundamentals in management at Faculty of Law of K.U. Leuven
