Jan Müller (executive)

Jan Müller was born in 1967 in Soest, Netherlands, as the son of the chief sound technician at the Nederlandse Omroep Stichting (National Broadcasting Foundation).

[1][2] At age four, Müller and his family moved to the town of Huizen in the Dutch province North Holland, where he grew up and completed primary and secondary education.

[1][2] As director, he was responsible for the digitization efforts of the archive, a reorganization after significant budget cuts and the 2017 merger with the Dutch Press Museum.

[8] Müller was one of the co-founders of the Media Memory Foundation in 2010, aiming to create a new archive for oral history.

[20] During the term of this appointment, in 2018 he joined the advisory board of the Centre for Media History at Macquarie University.