Andrew Houghton | Deputy Head of Unit Flagships
European Commission

Andrew Houghton is Deputy Head of the Unit "Future Networks", in the Directorate-General for Information Society and Media of the European Commission, in Brussels, Belgium. He received a B.Sc. degree from the University of Sussex, UK, and a Ph.D. from the University of Nottingham, UK. After five years with BT Research Labs, he joined STC /Northern Telecom Optoelectronics, involved in production of components for optical communications systems. In 1992 he joined the European Commission as a Project Officer, initially in the area of optical networks and subsequently in the areas of "Broadband for All" and "Mobile and Wireless Beyond 3G". He is currently responsible for projects of the ICT FP7 Research Programme, in the "Network of the Future" Objective.