Senior Policymaker, Ministry of Finance, Netherlands
Harm Jan van Burg is senior policymaker for the Netherlands Ministry of Finance/ Directorate-General of the tax- and customs administration in The Hague since 1983. He has held several positions, mostly connected to communication. Among these corporate communications, Customs communications, chain management for tax form production and distribution, e-tax services and presently innovation and development. Before the Ministry of Finance he worked for the Dutch post and telecommunications.
During his whole career, Harm Jan was involved in electronic communication. He was responsible for early day's videotext services, the first tax administration website (1995), involved in electronic tax filing and presently the electronic government in the Netherlands.
Presently he is project leader for the national XBRL taxonomy project and vice chair of the intergovernmental management-team for the coordination of E-government development in The Netherlands
