ICT engineer with an MBA, Benoit is policy officer in the startups and innovation unit of DG Connect. He is part of the Blockchain and FinTech team where he leads the standardisation and interoperability aspects.
He chairs the Interoperability and Standardisation Work Stream of the EU FinTech Task force. He is member of the ISO Technical Committee 307 on Blockchain/Distributed Ledger Technologies and coordinates Commission's inputs. He worked previously as Policy Officer at the Health and Wellbeing Unit of DG Connect, where he was in charge of standardisation and of the epSOS large scale pilot project.
Before joining the Commission, Benoit held different executive positions in ICT startups, in Amadeus, the technology partner of the travel industry, and in Belgacom, the Belgian Telecommunication incumbent.
