Drs. Jacoba C. Sieders

Jacoba is a digital identity expert, eager to make digital life better and a lot more secure than it is today. Keynote speaker at international IAM congresses and teacher of masterclasses. 

After twenty years in leading Identity positions at four multinational banks, Jacoba now focuses on strategic freelance assignments only. 

eSSIF-Lab is an EU-funded project and aims at advancing the broad uptake of Self-Sovereign Identities (SSI) as a next generation, open and trusted digital identity solution for faster and safer electronic transactions via the Internet and in real life. Next to being member of the eSSIF-Lab Advisory Board, Jacoba is a reviewer for SSI projects and companies demanding EU-funding under the eSSIF-lab. 

Jacoba holds a Master degree in Classics from Leiden University (Greek, Latin, Hebrew) but re-educated to start an IT-career, first as a developer in Java, C++ and databases, moving to IAM and cybersecurity from there.