Previous positions include Chief
Technical Officer of CommerceWorks Group, Managing Director e-Commerce of
Portfin Group, Senior Consultant of Level-7 (now part of PeopleSoft) and of Ovum,
Assistant Director EDI Standards at the Simpler Trade Procedures Board (SITPRO)
of the UK Department of Trade & Industry, and Group Head of CIT
Research. She received accountancy training
at KPMG. In addition to being a practitioner, she has donated time and money to
Internet start-ups in a variety of capacities.
She was a founding technical
expert of the international EDI standard UN/EDIFACT in the 1980s. She was also
a founding technical expert of Open Information Interchange, an initiative of
the European Commission, in the 1990s. From 1992 to 2004 she founded and was
the elected chair of successive European standardization committees at CEN in EDI,
e-commerce and then e-business. She has been a member of various committees at
BSI, CCTA (now OGC), CEN, CENELEC, ETSI, ICTSB, ISO, UN/ECE, UNESCO and
European Commission concerning various aspects of ICT.
She currently serves on a number
of international and European committees including the eEurope Advisory Group
Second Section and the EU-US eGovernment Research Collaboration Group. She is
also currently Coordinator of Community Building of the EU FP6/IST ATHENA
Integrated Project which focuses on interoperability for enterprises. She leads
the activity on business interoperability research in ATHENA. She is closely
involved in the establishment of the Enterprise Interoperability Centre being
initiated by ATHENA, which constitutes an Action of the EU’s updated eEurope
2005 Action Plan. In addition, she was an initiator of the European Network of
National Test-beds for eBusiness (ETeB) and serves on its Core Group and
Programme Management.
She has published over 100
papers on technology and business issues and been a speaker/chair at over 200
events. She has co-authored 2 books and is a regular reviewer for academic
journals.
Man-Sze is a graduate in
Politics, Philosophy & Economics of