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Strategic EU Liaison Manager

James Clarke

ORCID: 0000-0002-1330-7488

Personal Summary

Mr. James Clarke has been working for Walton Institute at South East Technological University (SETU) since February 2005. Prior to joining Walton Institute, Mr. Clarke worked at LAKE Communications in Ireland for eight years and Grumman Corporation in the United States for eight years.

Currently, Mr. Clarke is coordinating Data Usage Control for empowering digital sovereignty for All citizens (DUCA) project within the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions – Staff Exchanges (MSCA-SE) programme and coordinating SETU’s participation to a number of projects in the European Smart Networks and Services Joint Undertaking (SNS JU) programme of research and innovation.

Between 2020 – 2023, Mr. Clarke coordinated the NGI Atlantic.eu project within the European Commission’s Next Generation Internet (NGI) Initiative. Establishing a collaborative platform for EU-US NGI Experiments, NGI Atlantic.eu had a central goal to provide the organisational and financial framework that will drive the cascade funding of the EU-based research and innovators in carrying out NGI- related experiments built on top of EU–US experimental platforms.

From January 2021 – 2022, Mr. Clarke coordinated TRACK-STAR, an EU – US project supported by the Delegation of the European Union to the United States of America.  TRACK-STAR facilitated Transatlantic Civil Society Dialogues between civil society organisations (CSOs) from both Europe and the United States of America.

Prior to this, Mr. Clarke was the project coordinator of a European Horizon 2020 Program Co-ordination and Support action (CSA) entitled SpeakNGI.eu, which was one of the pathfinder projects funded under the H2020 programme entitled ICT-41-2017: Next Generation Internet (NGI), which is designed to get the public more involved and central to its work in building an NGI Flagship initiative for the successor of H2020, which is expected to run to 2027.

From 2014 – 2019, Mr. Clarke coordinated the EU – India FI-MEDIA project, a cluster to cluster (C2C) partnership building project funded by the Delegation of the European Union to India. C2C partnerships have been facilitated in a number of areas of mutual interest between Indian and EU researchers and innovators, including Smart Villages, Bringing FIWARE to the India context, Internet of Things, and ICT standards.

Prior to this, Mr. Clarke coordinated the Framework Programme 7 project entitled ‘BIC’, which stands for Building International Cooperation for Trustworthy ICT: Security, Privacy and Trust in Global Networks & Services. BIC will engage the European Union trust and program management (funding organizations) and research communities with associated peers located internationally in India, Brazil and South Africa. If successful, this will enable greater collaboration amongst research communities in security, privacy and trust and will reflect what has already been established in the US, Australia, Japan, Korea and Canada in the INCO-Trust project that Mr. Clarke also coordinated from 2008 – 2010.

Academic supervision

MSc

B.S.E.E

Professional links

In addition to the above activities, Mr. Clarke is a Steering board member of the NEM Technology Platform http://www.nem-initiative.org/ and was twice voted onto the two year terms of Steering Board member of the European Net!WorksTechnology Platform http://www.networks-etp.eu/ and is also involved in the Future Internet Assembly (FIA) http://www.future-internet.eu/ as one of the principal trust and Security organisers and Program Committee (PC) members. For the FIA Aalborg in May 2012 and the FIA Budapest conference held in May 2011, he was involved with organising sessions related to research challenges associated to smart cities and associated with the Internet of Things (IoT) and impacts on trust, security and privacy. Mr. Clarke is actively involved in the research community, having served in various international conference committees as Chair and program committee member. Mr. Clarke also worked on the Framework Programme 6 (FP6) IST DAIDALOS, ESFORS and SecurIST projects, amongst others.