Mathew Lowry

Current

• Board member at Blogactiv SPRL
• Online Communication Strategist at GOPA-Cartermill

Past

• Director, Blogactiv SPRL & Freelance Consultant at Euractiv
• Online Communication Strategist at European Commission
• Manager, Broadband Content & Services Division at Quadtel International

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Education

• The Open University
• University of Adelaide - BSc (physics)

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Industry

Political Organization

Mathew Lowry’s Summary

Conceiving and implementing communication strategies for organisations as diverse as the European Commission and start-ups. I've focused on the internet since 1995, but I'm not a developer. I do know, however, how to harness web technologies to real needs, and how to interface between the client and the developers, designers and writers.

My first website - for the EUREKA pan-European R&D organisation - could, in 1995, do what the Commission's equivalent CORDIS server still can't do today. At DG INFSO, the first edition of the 'Event in a Box' system (2002) had social networking tools before we knew that's what they were called, while the Newsroom was the first EC system to syndicate RSS (2003). More recently I set up Blogactiv.eu, a blogging platform focused on discussing EU policy and bringing the blogosphere to Brussels.

Along the way I've picked up significant experience in managing multiple communication project teams and departments simultaneously, structuring organisations, and implementing internal knowledge management solutions.

Mathew Lowry’s Experience

• Board member

  Blogactiv SPRL

  (Political Organization industry)

  2008 — Present (1 year )

  Although I left EurActiv in early 2008 (below), I remain on the Blogactiv Board and am an Advisor on the eParl project.

• Online Communication Strategist

  GOPA-Cartermill

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Public Relations and Communications industry)

  March 2008 — Present (1 year 9 months)

  Strategic communications consultancy to clients, business development, internal processes, etc., emphasising online communications, particularly the use of Web2.0 technologies.

Mathew Lowry’s Education

• The Open University

  BSc (Hons) , International Relations & International Environmental Politics, Economics & Science , 2005 — 2006

  First Class Honours degree, received end 2006

• University of Adelaide - BSc (physics)

  BSc , Theoretical and Applied Physics, Mathematics , March 1984 — August 1988

  Activities and Societies:

  Wrote for student newspaper, edited Science Association newsletter, organised lectures on Physics Department research and helped run two Orientation Camps.
  
  Supported myself throughout my studies as a lab technician, tutor, barman, kitchenhand and agricultural labourer.

Additional Information

Mathew Lowry’s Interests:

science & technology, impact of IP technologies on society, sustainable development & international relations, evolution, complexity theory and physics, cinema, European history & culture