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Thomas Klement is managing director at software vendor ABZ Reporting GmbH. He is providing software and services for e-reporting with XBRL in the areas of business registers, tax declaration and regulatory reporting since 2004.

Thomas serves in numerous xBRL boards (BoD, xBRL Europe, xBRL Germany) and working groups to advance the digitization of corporate reports through appropriate standards. He is committed to closing gaps in digitization needs. His current focus is on strategic product management for ESG report creation and analysis software. He contributes to improve the quality and interoperability of upcoming ESG taxonomies and help make xBRL standards fit for future challenges.

At the beginning of his career at the Fraunhofer research organization he worked on XML standard setting in the field of databases and semantic web. With this background, he moved to the area of standardized business reporting with xBRL.