Director General, Energy and Telecom, Netherlands

Since January 2006, Mark Frequin is Director General for Energy and Telecom. Before this, he was Director General for Telecommunications and Post, first at 2002 the Ministry of Transport, Public Works and Water Management, since 2003 at the Ministry of Economic Affairs. In that role he is also responsible for the national coordination of ICT-policy. Prior to this, he was deputy Secretary-General of the Ministry of Justice in 2000 and 2001. Since the end of 1988 he has worked at the Ministry of Education, Cultural Affairs and Science, first as Deputy Director for Secondary Education, since 1993 as Director of Strategy and Policy (strategy, minister/state secretary support and international policy) and since 1996 as Director of Primary Education (basic and special education). Mark Frequin (1953) studied Social and Economical Geography and (Urban and Rural) Planning at the University of Groningen.