Kees neggers biography channel

Dutch Internet pioneer (born 1947)

Cornelis Adrianus Maria "Kees" Neggers (born 20 July 1947) is a Dutch Internet pioneer.

He is best known for starting and promoting many initiatives for international collaboration in research and education networking.

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Kees Neggers, RIPE NCC Executive Board Chair, opened the meeting at He welcomed the attendees and noted that guests from the other Regional Internet.

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Education and early career

Neggers was born in Breda, the Netherlands on 20 July 1947. He studied electrical engineering at Eindhoven University of Technology, where he obtained his M.Eng. in 1972.^[1] He started his career as a staff member of the permanent committee advising the Dutch Ministry of Education and Sciences on computing infrastructure.

He worked at the Computing Centre of the University of Groningen from 1975 until 1984. In 1984, Neggers joined the Computing Centre at the Catholic University of Nijmegen as deputy director. The same year he started his career in international networking by becoming the director of the European Academic and Research Network (EARN) for the Netherlands.^[