Sander van der Waal is Head of Long Term Projects at the Open Knowledge Foundation. Overseeing many of the grant funded projects the OKF is involved with, Sander ensures any funded project will benefit maximally from cross-fertilization with other related initiatives across the wider international Open Knowledge Foundation community. Sander has a strong background in the open source world, having advised academic projects on open source software development at OSS Watch, based at the University of Oxford. He is a committer and contributor to the Apache Software Foundation and co-organised several big and smaller open source events.