David Simonsen, born 1973 in Copenhagen.
Manager of WAYF since it started as a research network project in 2005. Employed by the Danish government agency for Library and Media.

2010	member of the TERENA networking conference program committee
2009 -	member of the steering commitee for Kalmar2 (www.kalmar2.org)
2007 -	member of ECAM, European commitee for Academic Middleware
2005 - 2007	co-chair of TERENAs mobility task force (result: www.eduroam.org)
2003	Cand. it from the IT University of Copenhagen (www.itu.dk) Before that 5 years in molecular biology at Copenhagen University.
2001	member of the Danish governments IT-forum
2000 - 2001	member of the advisory board for the establishment of the Danish Virtual University