Georg C. F. Greve

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Georg C. F. Greve
2009
Born	(1973-03-10) 10 March 1973 (age 51) Helgoland, Germany
Nationality	German
Alma mater	University of Hamburg
Occupation(s)	Co-Founder and President at Vereign,[1] Founding President (until 2009) and Director at FSFE

Georg C. F. Greve (born 10 March 1973 in Helgoland, Germany) is a software developer, physicist, author and currently co-founder and president at Vereign.^[1] He has been working on technology politics since he founded the Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) in 2001.

Greve has been working full-time as president for FSFE since early 2001. In June 2009, he handed over the presidency of the FSFE to Karsten Gerloff.^[2] His responsibilities for FSFE included coordination of the general assembly, supporting local representatives in their work, working on political and legal issues as well as projects and giving speeches or informing journalists to spread knowledge about free software.

In addition, Georg Greve also worked as a consultant, representing Google in the OOXML standardisation process at ISO^{[citation needed]} and as a project reviewer for the European Commission.^{[citation needed]}

Greve is married and lives in Switzerland.^[3]

In 2010 Greve was awarded the Cross of Merit on ribbon of the Federal Republic of Germany (Verdienstkreuz am Bande). ^[4]