Head of Unit, Intellectual Property and Technology Transfer, JRC, European Commission
Matthew King has been in the European Commission for 25 years after joining from the UK Treasury. He spent most of that time in Directorate-General (DG) Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital Markets Union (FISMA), working on banking and insurance regulation. In the early 2000s, he was posted to the Commission’s office in Washington DC where he was active in pursuing better relations between US securities and banking regulators and the Commission. Since then he has been in a number of different DGs, including DG MARE, DG RTD (working on the creation of the new European Innovation Council) and the Joint Research Centre (JRC). Until recently he was the head of unit for text and data mining at the JRC.
He has recently been appointed the JRC’s Chief Data Officer and head of unit for innovation and intellectual property rights management.