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Dr. Miriam Lips Biography
Dr Miriam Lips completed her PhD in Public Administration at Erasmus University Rotterdam. Since 1996, she has worked as an associate professor at the Center for Law, Public Administration and Informatisation at Tilburg University, the Netherlands, and since 2003 also as a Research Fellow at the Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford, UK. Her research concentrates more generally on the introduction of ICTs in citizen-government relationships and their implications, with a current focus on topics like identity management, personalisation, digital citizenship, e-Governance and Internet Governance. Her most recent book publication (together with Simone van der Hof, Corien Prins and Ton Schudelaro) is 'Issues of Online Personalisation in Commercial and Public Service Delivery' (2005, Wolf Legal Publishers). Dr Lips is a book review editor and member of the editorial board of Information Polity, a Senior Research Fellow of the Netherlands Institute of Government, and Member of IFIP Working Group 8.5 (Information Systems in Public Administration). She is also Chair of the permanent Study Group on Informatisation in Public Administration of the European Group of Public Administration (EGPA; together with Professor John Taylor) and Academic Director of the Master in Public Information Management at TIAS Business school, Tilburg University. Miriam Lips holds Memberships of the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research's Network of Network Research Programme Committee, the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research's Open Competition Social Sciences 2005-2006 Assessment Committee, and the Scientific Advisory Council of the Dutch Bsik-programme 'Space for Geo-information' (2004-2009). Moreover, Miriam Lips is project leader of a two-year research project sponsored by the ESRC 'Personal Identification and Identity Management in New Modes of e-Government', and Activity Leader of social scientific research in the European FP6 Integrated Project 'Privacy and Identity Management for Europe' (PRIME), March 2004-2008.