Individual Seat
First Elected, June 2025
Current term, July 1, 2025 – June 30, 2028
Marcel Oostdijk is a Dutch technologist and entrepreneur with over 15 years of experience in higher education, open source development, and digital public infrastructure. As founder and CTO of Outfox, he has led the design and deployment of Drupal-based platforms that support collaboration, research, and community engagement across European Higher Education institutions.
Marcel combines technical leadership with a strong strategic focus on sustainable and human-centered digital infrastructure. His work prioritizes privacy, transparency, and long-term institutional ownership. These values are closely aligned with Apereo’s mission to advance open technologies in education.
He is passionate about helping universities and public partners adopt open source alternatives to proprietary platforms and contributes to building resilient and values-driven digital ecosystems for education.