Dirk Pilat

Deputy Director, Directorate for Science, Technology and Innovation, ‎OECD,

Dirk Pilat, a Dutch national, is Deputy Director of the OECD

Directorate for Science, Technology and Innovation. He supports the

Director of STI in overseeing OECD’s work on innovation, business and

productivity dynamics, science and technology, digital economy policy,

consumer policy as well as the statistical work associated with each of

these areas. He also helps ensure this work contributes to the strategic

objectives of the Organisation to support and develop better policies

for better lives.

Dirk joined the OECD in February 1994 and has worked on many policy

issues since then, including innovation, the role of digital technologies

for economic growth, climate change and environmental innovation,

labour markets, regulatory reform, global value chains, productivity

and entrepreneurship, as well as health innovation. He is currently

helping to coordinate the OECD’s new Going Digital project, which is a

multidisciplinary, cross-cutting initiative that aims to help policymakers

better understand the digital transformation that is taking place and

help articulate recommendations for pro-active policies that will help

to drive greater growth and societal well-being.

Dirk was responsible for the OECD’s Committee for Scientific and

Technological Policy from 2006 to January 2009, and for the Committee

on Industry, Innovation and Entrepreneurship from February 2009 to

December 2012.

Before joining the OECD, he was a researcher at the University of

Groningen, where he also earned his PhD in Economics, working

primarily on productivity and economic growth.