• 2019-present : European Commissioner for Budget and Administration
• 2014-2019 : European Commissioner for European Neighbourhood Policy and Enlargement Negotiations
• 2010-2014 : European Commissioner for Regional Policy
• 2007-2010 : Minister for Science and Research
• 2003-2007 : Member of the Vienna regional government
• 1997-2003 : Board member, later CEO of Novomatic AG
• 1996-2003 : Member of the Vienna regional parliament
• 1992-1997 : Executive Director of the Austrian's People Party
• 1989-1992 : Managerial functions in different areas of Austrian industry
• 1987-1989 : Secretary General of the Austrian Managers Association
• 1987: Doctorate in philosophy from the University of Vienna

Andrea Halmos is a Deputy Head of Unit at the European Commission; helping the digital transformation of public administrations in the EU through interoperability. Her work includes the implementation of the Interoperable Europe Act, with particular focus on the role of interoperability on common European data spaces, AI in the public sector, GovTech and the digital transformation of local and regional administrations.

In September 2021, Jack Hamande began work as Director General Simplification and Digitalisation within Belgian Federal Public Service BOSA.

Jack holds a Master's degree in Industrial and Commercial Psychology from ULB, with an attraction to neural programming, which is often regarded as one of the first first important steps towards artificial intelligence.

Before entering the world of technology, Jack worked for Walt Disney. He had the the opportunity to launch the Internet to the general public at Worldcom/Verizon. His career then took him to Cisco, where he worked on new technologies such in the fields of wireless, security and cloud.

A few years later, he gained his first experience in the public sector as Director General of Organization and Personnel Development at the the former Belgian Federal Public Service Personnel & Organization to launch initiatives like new world of work, leadership development. In 2013, He joined BIPT (Belgian institute for Postal & Telecommunications services) as chairman and member of the Executive Committee. Jack also held several positions at the Board of BEREC (Body of European regulators for electronic communications) , ERGP, ITU and UPU (universal postal union)