Mario Campolargo is the Director of the "Emerging Technologies and Infrastructures" Directorate of DG-INFSO in charge of future and emerging technologies, ICT based infrastructures for science as well as ICT trust and security, experimental facilities and experimentally driven research for future internet. Before joining the European Commission in 1990, he worked for 12 years in the R&D Center of Portugal Telecom as a researcher and manager. He has a Degree in Electrical Engineering by the University of Coimbra, a Master of Science in Computing Science by the Imperial College London, a Post graduate in Management by the Solvay Business School in Brussels and a European Studies Diploma by the Université Catholique de Louvain-la-Neuve in Belgium