Gérard Comyn is Head of the Unit “ICT for Health” in DG INFSO, European Commission. Prior to this, he was head of the unit “strategies for research in IST”. Before joining the Commission he was managing director of ECRC (European Computer_Industry Research Centre) in Munich (1989-1994) and Professor in University of Lille (1972-1989). Gérard Comyn holds a Master Degree in applied mathematics and a PhD in Computer Sciences.