some personal information

[h.j.m.burg@minfin.nl]

Friends,

To help you with the decision to elect (or not) me as you chair perhaps some background information might be helpfull.

Please do not hesitate to give me a call or send me an e-mail if you have any questions.

Regards,

Harm Jan van Burg
tel: +31 (0)70 3428522
mail private: harmjan@vanburg.net
at the office: h.j.m.burg@minfin.nl



Harm Jan van Burg (1953) is senior policymaker on the Netherlands Ministry of Finance/ Directorate-General of the tax- and customs administration in The Hague since 1983. 
Within the ministry  he was involved  in corporate communications, Customs communications, chain management for tax form production and distribution, e-tax services and presently innovation, development and strategic ICT policy.
Earlier he was employed by the Dutch post and telecommunications agency.
During his whole career electronic communications where a large portion of his daily activities. He was responsible for early days videotext services, the first tax administration website (1995), involved in electronic tax filing and presently the electronic government in the Netherlands.
At the moment Harm Jan is deeply involved in open standards for tax interoperability. The OECD Forum on Tax Administration, took the initiative together with OASIS, the world standards organisation for e-commerce standards to form a tax-xml technical committee. Several tax administrations together with major software vendors and accounting firms have joined this committee since 2003. Harm Jan has been promoter and chair of committee from the start. In 2003 he was rewarded the Dutch XML award for his efforts. Presently he is project leader for the national XBRL taxonomy project and member of the Intergovernmental Management Team on coordination of electronic government in the Netherlands.

Harm Jan has a college degree in Social Sciences. Did several courses in communications and management development. Is an autodidact on electronic government and ICT policy. 
He is married with Saskia (self-employed text writer) and lives with his wife and son Jesse (1988) in Zoetermeer, Netherlands. In his spare time Harm Jan among other activities involved in the organisation and refereeing of athletic events.