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Georgia Angelaki graduated from the Media and Communication Department of the Panteion University of Athens in 2001 with a specialization in cultural management. Between 2003 and 2005 she did a Leonardo MA in Multimedia Project Management at the Media Department of the University of Athens and worked for a media education NGO and in the film production sector in Greece. As an intern at the European Commission in DG Information Society and Media in 2006 she followed the beginnings of the i2010 Digital Libraries initiative and she produced a report on the status around the digital legal deposit laws and practices among EU member states.

Georgia joined The European Library in September 2006. She is currently managing projects for The European Library (TELplus) and Europeana (ATHENA, PrestoPRIME).

Aubéry Escande is the Communication and Editorial Manager for The European Library, the library aggregator of the EDL Foundation. He coordinates the development of The European Library virtual exhibition space, The European Library Newsletter, the rich media resources available on the site and the Internal Bulletin. Aubéry is also the European Film Gateway - EFG project coordinator for Europeana; he ensures that the tasks undertaken for EFG are adequately monitored on behalf of the EDL Foundation. He is responsible for EFG content ingestion process into Europeana prototype and he coordinates the communication stream between the EDL Foundation and the EFG project. Aubéry joined The European Library Office in September 2006 and previously worked for several specialised magazines - Fabrics & Textiles, The Asian Exporters, L'Officiel du Transporteur, daily papers - La Croix/L'évènement, and news websites - Sapenda.com, NewMonday.com. Aubéry devotes his free time to short-films and Original Soundtrack production.

Olaf D. Janssen (1973) is a project & account manager for The European Library (TEL) , the collaborative platform and joint webservice of the 48 national libraries of Europe. In 2004 he was asked to coordinate the technical & editorial development of the project. His previous position was at the Koninklijke Bibliotheek, the Royal Library of The Netherlands, where he was editor in chief for Gabriel, the precursor of TEL. He has been involved in a number of EU-funded projects to expand and improve The European Library: TEL-ME-MOR (2005-2007), EDLproject (2006-2008), TELplus (2007-2009) and FUMAGABA (2008-2009). Olaf has given presentations & lectures across Europe, Asia and the US. Before moving into the library world, he studied astronomy at Leiden University, The Netherlands. Classical men's shoes, cycling and (g)astronomy are his life-long passions.

Lizzy Komen joined The European Library office in August 2007. She finalised her Masters degree in Cultural Studies at the University of Amsterdam in 2007; her interests lay in the area of ethnology, museums, photography and colonialism. Before joining The European Library, Lizzy worked as an intern at The Tropical Museum in Amsterdam. She is responsible for the coordination of the translation of collection descriptions into all 35 available languages besides English to The European Library portal. She is also the project coordinator of FUMAGABA (2008-2009), a project of The European Library that aims at integrating the collections of the national libraries of Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Ukraine, Moldova, Albania, Georgia, Armenia, Bosnia Herzegovina and Azerbaijan. In addition she is project coordinator for EuropeanaLocal and BHL-Europe, which are both Europeana related projects. Lizzy loves playing the guitar, photography, movies, cooking and of course travelling.

Ruth has been working for the National Library of the Netherlands since December 2006. She has worked as the a Salary Administrator and in the Personnel Departments of various companies. In the National Library she works in Financial Administration. Since September 2007 she has been involved in the Financial aspects of Europeana (travel claims, EC financial procedures etc) and will be responsible for the financial reporting procedures of The European Library itself. In her spare time Ruth likes Aerobics, Photography, Walking and has a passion for Austria and Skiing!

Willem Vermeer is responsible for the technical implementation of The European Library portal. This includes the daily operation of the portal, the search engine and digital collections as well as defining and working on new developments such as: multilingual search prototype developed in the CACAO project; annotation services for the TELplus project; ARROW project that aims at building a European Digital Rights Infrastructure.

Willem completed his Master of Science in Applied Mathematics at the Delft University of Technology and has had more than 12 years of IT experiences as internet engineer. Willem enjoys family activities and cycling.