Paul Keller

Paul Keller (1974) is co-founder and Director of Policy at Open Future and President of the COMMUNIA Association for the Public Domain. Paul has over 20 years of experience as a media activist, open policy advocate, and systems architect for improving access to knowledge and culture. A political scientist by training, Paul has a deep understanding of the digital transformation’s political, social and legal implications. Prior to founding Open Future Paul was co-director of Kennisland, an Amsterdam-based think-tank working on issues related to the knowledge economy.

Paul is a research fellow at the Institute for Information Law of the University of Amsterdam and sits on the advisory boards of the Glushko & Samuelson Information Law and Policy Lab and the Europeana Foundation and on the board of Public Spaces, a coalition of Dutch civil society organizations working on public digital infrastructures.