Daniel Dietrich was born in 1973 in Frankfurt, Germany. His academic work covers political science, computer science and communication science in Frankfurt and Berlin. He worked as Research Associate at Technical University Berlin, Department of Internet and Society until the end of 2011. He has been working for the Open Knowledge Foundation (OKFN), since 2009 and is Chairman of the German Chapter of the Open Knowledge Foundation. He is the Project Coordinator for the OKF Project Open Definition as well as the Coordinator of the Working Group on Open Government Data. He is the co-founder of the Open Data Network, a non-profit advocacy organisation to promote Open Data, Open Government and Transparency in Germany, Europe and beyond. In 2011 he became Editor of the ePSIplatform.eu.
