Michiel Leenaars

[Hexagonista](https://nlnet.nl/hex ) by day, director of Strategy at [NLnet foundation](https://nlnet.nl ) by night. Leads [NGI Zero](https://nlnet.nl/NGI0 ), a family of research programmes including [NGI0 Entrust](https://nlnet.nl/entrust ), [NGI0 Core](https://nlnet.nl/core ) and [NGI0 Commons Fund](https://nlnet.nl/commonsfund ). Has worked at NLnet since 2007.

Helps provide free legal infrastructure for FOSS projects through [The Commons Conservancy](https://commonsconservancy.org ), promote open document formats at [OpenDoc Society](https://opendocsociety.org ), and helps citizens and grassroots communities raise issues at [Petities.nl](https://petities.nl ) foundation. Co-founded [Technology Commons Trust](https://technologycommons.org ) to channel donations.

Previous jobs include coordinating the national software engineering programme at the [Dutch Research Council](https://nwo.nl ) (NWO), writing policy on scientific e-infrastructure at at the Netherlands National Computing Facilities foundation, and bringing the Dutch internet community together at [Internet Society Netherlands](https://isoc.nl ).

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