Andreas Weller is Head of IT at the European Banking Authority (EBA). The EBA has officially come into being as of 1 January 2011 and has taken over all existing and ongoing tasks and responsibilities from the Committee of European Banking Supervisors (CEBS). The EBA has some quite broad competences, including strengthening international supervisory coordination, promoting supervisory convergence and providing advice to the EU institutions in the areas of banking  and financial reporting. The EBA is in charge of COREP and FINREP Taxonomies. Mr. Weller is responsible for the IT and the EBA  XBRL-related activities. Mr. Weller has extensive experience in co-coordinating international and pan European developments. Starting his career at the Office for Official Publications of the European Communities he has more as 20 years experience in SGML, XML, XBRL and financial industry.  Mr. Weller holds a diploma in Mathematics, Economics and Information Technology from University of Trier, Germany.