Andreas Meier is a former member of the Faculty of Economics and Social Science and was a professor of Information Technology at the University of Fribourg. He specializes in electronic business, electronic government, and information management. He is member of the GI (Gesellschaft für Informatik), IEEE Computer Society, and ACM. After studying music in Vienna, he graduated with a degree in mathematics at the Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich, studied his doctorate, and qualified as a university lecture at the Institute of Computer Science. He was a systems engineer at the IBM research lab in San José, California, director of an international bank, and a member of the executive board of an insurance company.