dr. ir. Hans Rudi Stol was born in Leiden, the Netherlands on the 9th of October 1947. In 1967, he received his diploma Gymnasium b, at the Stedelijk Gymnasium in Breda. Thereafter he went to the Delft University of Technology. He studied Mathematics, with a major in applying Information Systems (graduation 1976). After his study he was appointed scientific employee for one year at the Delft University of Technology, in the Section of Professor Brussaard, with focus on the development of new methods and techniques for the design of IS.
From 1977 to 1981 he worked for two Financial Institutions: (1) assistant to the Board of Directors of the Eerste Hollandsche Levensverzekerings Bank (insurance company), with special assignment to improve the operational Information Systems and (2) as enterprise administrator in the Data Administration Group of the NMB-Bank (now ING), assigned to the architecture and implementation of large databases.
From 1981 to 1986 he was Managing Director of Orga-Info Nederland, an Organisation & Information consultancy company. The core business of this company was Information Planning for Public and Private Sector. In this period he designed IS architectures for Ministries, Provinces, Municipalities, and for industrial and financial institutions.
He founded in 1987 his own consultancy company: Stol Consult. For Statistics Netherlands (CBS) he performed various assignments, from project leader of the introduction of the e-questionnaire on lap tops in the Labour Force Survey (1986) to the design of the information architecture (1986-1991) and the development of the organisation of the IT function (1991-1995). From 1990 to 1994 he was head of the ICT department of the CBS, during which period he was responsible for the reorganisation of the IT function. From 1995 to 1997 he was interim information manager in the Technical University of Delft, with assignment to redesign the Management Information Systems Architecture. As from 1998, he performed O&I and IT audits in various organisations.
In 2000, following international experiences in electronic data capture, he founded, together with his colleague Hans van Nek, SuperCollect b.v.. This company develops and exploits software systems for electronic data capture via Internet.
He contributed to international projects in the area of electronic data capture, policy impact analysis and the development of Monitoring and Evaluation Systems.
His experiences in the IT developments of Statistics Netherlands contributed to his vision that some methods of the Official Statistical System, especially on data collection, are very powerful to get unambiguous data, to be used for EBPM.
He was active member of the liberal party (VVD) in Delft from 1999 to 2003. He chaired the local political party in Delft “Leefbaar Delft” from 2003-2007. The discussions on the responsibilities of the local administration versus those of the elected politicians contributed to his notion of the power of the politicians and the limitations of rationality in politics.
On February 20, 2009 Hans Stol obtained his doctor's degree at the University of Tilburg in the Netherlands. His dissertation explains the use of a framework to obtain evidence-based policy making.
Next to his professional carrier, he was involved in research, publishing, and education in Information Science and electronic data capture.
Other functions:
1) Member and Secretary of the Working Group Architecture of Information Systems (NGI) (1976-1981)
2) Development of various courses and teacher in IS development, information analysis, information planning and project management (1980-1987) for Management and IT-professionals.
3) Teacher management science and information management MBA (Henley) (1986-1988)
4) Lectures on Information Science at Technical University of Delft, the University of Amsterdam (UVA) and the Vrije Universiteit (VU) of Amsterdam (1988-1994)
5) In 1990 he published his book on theory and experiences in Information Planning “Information Planning in de praktijk” (Stol, 1990).
6) Member of the “Board for Administrative Requirements and Strategy” Fifth Framework programme (EC DG XIII) (1998).
7) Presentations and publications on e-data capture for Government (1996-2007).
8) Member of Advisory Committee Information Systems of EIM Business Policy (2002-now).
