Tomasz Janowski is Associate Professor at Gdańsk University of Technology, Poland; Invited Professor at University for Continuing Education Krems, Austria; Associate Editor of Government Information Quarterly; and Digital Government Society board member.

Previously, he was co-editor-in-chief of Government Information Quarterly; head of the Department of Informatics in Management at Gdańsk University of Technology; founder and head of the United Nations University Operating Unit on Policy-Driven Electronic Governance (UNU-EGOV), Portugal; Senior Research Fellow at the UNU International Institute on Software Technology (UNU-IIST), Macau SAR, China; and Invited Professor at the University of Minho, Portugal and Università Della Svizzera Italiana, Switzerland. He was also co-chair of the e-Government Interest Group at the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C); member of two evaluation panels of the European Commission’s Joint Research Center (JRC); chief jury of the Saudi e-Government Award and Omani Sultan Qaboos Award for Excellence in e-Government; and founder of the International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance (ICEGOV) and series coordinator of the ICEGOV conferences in Macao, Cairo, Bogota, Beijing, Tallinn, Albany, Seoul, Guimarães, Montevideo, and New Delhi.

His research interests include digital government, sustainable digital transformation, and digital transformation for sustainability. He is an author or co-author of more than 270 academic publications and project or policy reports. He developed and led projects funded by various international organizations, including CTO, European Commission, IADB, IDRC, ITU, OSCE, UNDP, UNESCO, and the World Bank. These include projects in conflict, post-conflict and developing countries, e.g. Afghanistan – digital government strategy and capacity building for the Afghan government, funded by the World Bank; Colombia – Government Chief Information Officer (GCIO) function and capacity for the Colombian government, funded by UNDP; Vanuatu – mobile government strategy and a toolkit for Small Island Developing States, funded by the Commonwealth Secretariat, etc. Lately, he coordinates the "Digital transformation for university-born innovation and entrepreneurship” (DIGIMPACT.EU) project funded by the European Institute of Innovation & Technology (EIT).