Dr. Buhr, an economist and computer scientist, has been a member of the cabinet of Digital Agenda Commissioner and EU Commission Vice-President Neelie Kroes since 2010. Among others, he advises her on the European Cloud Computing Strategy, the Connecting Europe Facility, ICT research policy, data protection and online privacy as well as ICT Standardisation and interoperability policies. Previously he dealt with antitrust and merger control investigations by the Commission, such as the Microsoft antitrust case and the Oracle/Sun Microsystems merger.