Jens Haeusser

Jens Haeusser is the Director of Strategy in the Information Technology department at the University of British Columbia, a position he has held since 2006. He is responsible for fostering outstanding IT solutions throughout the highly decentralized UBC campus by developing creative and relevant IT strategies that anticipate and reflect broad campus needs, developing strategic relationships with faculties and administrative units, and building long-range plans for IT directions at UBC. In addition to his role within UBC, Jens is an active participant and frequent presenter and facilitator in many other organizations at the provincial, national, and international level, including EDUCAUSE, Internet2, CANHEIT, CIPS, BCNET, and as a JASIG and Fluid board member. He plays a leadership role on Identity Management as part of the BC Public Sector Identity Management forum, the Canadian Identity Management Federation, and as a member of the Middleware Architecture Committee for Education. An advocate for the transformative role of Service Oriented Architecture within the higher education community, Jens is also involved in promoting and architecting the next generation Community Source Student Service System, Kuali Student.

Prior to his current position, Jens spent a decade as a departmental IT administrator before founding the UBC Information Security Office in 2003. In his role as Information Security Officer, he helped build a culture of security at UBC, developing security strategy and policy and leading an operational team that dramatically improved the IT security stance of the University. Jens is a member of the Internet2/Educause Security Task Force, and chair of the BCNET Security and Identity Management Working Groups.