Jan Kleijssen j was appointed to the Secretariat of the Parliamentary Assembly and was Secretary to the Political Affairs Committee from 1990 to 1999. Jan then served as the Director of the Secretary General's Private Office until 2004 and subsequently as Director in the Parliamentary Assembly and Special Advisor to the President. In 2006, he moved to the Directorate General of Human Rights and was Director of Standard-setting until 2011 when he was appointed to his current function of Director of Information Society - Action against Crime, Directorate General Human Rights and Rule of Law. His Directorate carries out standard-setting, monitoring and co-operation activities on a wide variety of issues, including: freedom of expression, data protection, AI, Internet governance, cybercrime, terrorism, criminal law, fighting corruption, and money laundering.