Paul Snijders

Paul was amongst the first members of XBRL is co-founder and vice chair of the Dutch jurisdiction of XBRL International and one of the driving forces behind the global adoption of XBRL. Paul has a background in finance and accounting and is involved in pragmatic implementations of digital reporting on a daily basis. As member of the International Specification Workgroup, chairman of the section Technology of XBRL The Netherlands, member of the Implementation Group of XBRL-UK, the Tools Section of XBRL-Germany, Corep/Finrep, XBRL-GL and the CRAS workgroup, Paul has gained recognition as an expert in definition and deployment of the standard. Paul was founding board member and director of the EU funded 'XBRL in Europe' consortium. He acts as strategic advisor in the assurance working group, Big four accounting firms, regulator implementations and for global software companies. Paul was the initiator of the first XBRL projects in the Europe and involved in the Netherlands Taxonomy Project for nationwide implementation of XBRL for all Dutch enterprises.