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<h1>Who's Who at the World Wide Web Consortium...</h1>
<p>If you are interested in joining the W3C Team worldwide, check out our <a
href="../Consortium/Recruitment/Overview.html">Job Postings</a> -- join the
<a href="http://www.csail.mit.edu">MIT</a>, <a href="http://www.ercim.org/">ERCIM</a> or <a href="http://www.keio.ac.jp/">Keio</a>!</p>
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<a href="#shadi">Abou-Zahra</a> · <a href="#madamic">Adamic</a> · <a href="#denis">Ah-Kang</a> · <a href="#phila">Archer</a> · <a href="#ashimura">Ashimura</a> · <a href="#cbaron">Baron</a> · <a href="#timbl">Berners-Lee</a> · <a href="#bertails">Bertails</a> · <a href="#abird">Bird</a> · <a href="#bert">Bos</a> · <a href="#carine">Bournez</a> · <a href="#boyera">Boyera</a> · <a href="#jbrewer">Brewer</a> · <a href="#laurent">Carcone</a> · <a href="#jerome">Chailloux</a> · <a href="#cooper">Cooper</a> · <a href="#danield">Dardailler</a> · <a href="#npdoty">Doty</a> · <a href="#mcf">Forgue</a> · <a href="#tgambet">Gambet</a> · <a href="#bgidon">Gidon</a> · <a href="#ted">Guild</a> · <a href="#hagino">Hagino</a> · <a href="#hhalpin">Halpin</a> · <a href="#sandro">Hawke</a> · <a href="#dom">Hazaël-Massieux</a> · <a href="#shawn">Henry</a> · <a href="#ivan">Herman</a> · <a href="#ph">Hoschka</a> · <a href="#ishida">Ishida</a> · <a href="#shinji">Ishii</a> · <a href="#masao">Isshiki</a> · <a href="#ij">Jacobs</a> · <a href="#jeff">Jaffe</a> · <a href="#jose.kahan">Kahan</a> · <a href="#vivien">Lacourba</a> · <a href="#ylafon">Lafon</a> · <a href="#alex">Lavirotte</a> · <a href="#plh">Le Hégaret</a> · <a href="#chris">Lilley</a> · <a href="#coralie">Mercier</a> · <a href="#tmichel">Michel</a> · <a href="#karen">Myers</a> · <a href="#hiro">Nakajima</a> · <a href="#gerald">Oskoboiny</a> · <a href="#eric">Prud'hommeaux</a> · <a href="#liam">Quin</a> · <a href="#dsr">Raggett</a> · <a href="#tlr">Roessler</a> · <a href="#jean-gui">Rouel</a> · <a href="#barbara">Saba-Gagnon</a> · <a href="#nobuo.saito">Saito</a> · <a href="#schepers">Schepers</a> · <a href="#wseltzer">Seltzer</a> · <a href="#msiderwicz">Siderwicz</a> · <a href="#mike">Smith</a> · <a href="#jeanne">Spellman</a> · <a href="#swick">Swick</a> · <a href="#amy">van der Hiel</a> · <a href="#rigo">Wenning</a> · <a href="#susan">Westhaver</a> · <a href="#mdw">Womer</a> · <a href="#hiroki">Yamada</a> · <a href="#naomi">Yoshizawa</a>· <em><a href="Alumni.html">Alumni</a></em></p>
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<a href="#Management">Management</a> · <a href="#AdministrativeSupport">Administrative Support</a> · <a href="#BusinessDevelopment">Business Development</a> · <a href="#Communications">Communications</a> · <a href="#Interaction">Interaction</a> · <a href="#Systems">Systems</a> · <a href="#TechnologyandSociety">Technology and Society</a> · <a href="#UbiquitousWeb">Ubiquitous Web</a> · <a href="#WebAccessibilityInitiative">Web Accessibility Initiative</a></p>
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This page shows the 64 Team members of W3C. Its default is
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<h2><a name="Management" id="Management">Management</a></h2>
<div class='foaf-person'><h3><a name="jeff" id="jeff" class='foaf-name'><span class='foaf-given'>Jeff</span> <span class='foaf-family'>Jaffe</span></a>, Chief Executive Officer</h3>
<img src="http://www.w3.org/2010/03/JeffreyJaffe_thumb.jpg" alt="" class='foaf-depiction' />
<div><p>Dr. Jeffrey Jaffe became the W3C CEO on 8 March 2010.</p>
<p>Before joining W3C, Jeff served as the Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer for Novell. He was responsible for Novell's technology direction, as well as leading Novell's product business units.</p>
<p>Prior to that Jeff served as president of Bell Labs Research and Advanced Technologies, where he established new facilities in Ireland and India, and served as chairman of the board of the New Jersey Nanotechnology Consortium.</p>
<p>Early in his career, after receiving a Ph.D. in computer science from MIT in 1979, Jeff joined IBM's Thomas J. Watson Research Center. During his tenure at IBM, he held a wide variety of technical and management positions, including vice president, Systems and Software Research, corporate vice president of technology, and general manager of IBM's SecureWay business unit, where he was responsible for IBM's security, directory, and networking software business.</p>
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<address><a href="Jeff/" rel='foaf-home'><img src="/Icons/house.gif" alt="homepage" /></a> <a href="mailto:jeff@w3.org"><img src="/Icons/envelope.gif" alt="email" /> jeff@w3.org</a></address>
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<div class='foaf-person'><h3><a name="timbl" id="timbl" class='foaf-name'><span class='foaf-given'>Tim</span> <span class='foaf-family'>Berners-Lee</span></a>, Director</h3>
<img src="http://www.w3.org/2011/02/scarpetta_photos/TIM_0025-med.jpg" alt="" class='foaf-depiction' />
<div><p>Tim is now the overall Director of the W3C. He is the 3COM Founders Professor of Engineering in the School of Engineering, and at the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT's CSAIL.</p>
<p>Tim founded and is on the board of the <a href="http://www.webfoundation.org">World Wide Web Foundation</a>, whose
mission is consistent with W3C's only broader. The Web Foundation will put the power of the Web into the hands of people around the world through effective, high-impact programs.</p>
<p><a href="Berners-Lee/">Tim</a>
invented the <a href="../">World Wide Web</a> in 1989 while working at
CERN, the European Particle Physics Laboratory in Geneva, Switzerland. He
wrote the first WWW client (a browser-editor running under NeXTStep) and
the first WWW server along with most of the communications software, defining
URLs, HTTP and HTML. Prior to his work at CERN, Tim was a founding director of
Image Computer Systems, a consultant in hardware and software system design,
real-time communications graphics and text processing, and a principal
engineer with Plessey Telecommunications in Poole, England. He is a graduate
of Oxford University. <a href="Berners-Lee/">More...</a></p>
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<address><a href="Berners-Lee" rel='foaf-home'><img src="/Icons/house.gif" alt="homepage" /></a> <a href="mailto:timbl@w3.org"><img src="/Icons/envelope.gif" alt="email" /> timbl@w3.org</a></address>
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<div class='foaf-person'><h3><a name="abird" id="abird" class='foaf-name'><span class='foaf-given'>J. Alan</span> <span class='foaf-family'>Bird</span></a>, Global Business Development Lead</h3>
<img src="/People/AlanBird/alanbird-sm.jpg" alt="" class='foaf-depiction' />
<div><p>Alan Bird is the Global Business Development Lead for W3C. In this role, Mr. Bird leads W3C staff efforts internationally to strengthen the W3C Membership program, identify business development strategies, and seek new revenue streams to support the organization. Alan joined W3C in January 2011.</p>
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<address><a href="AlanBird" rel='foaf-home'><img src="/Icons/house.gif" alt="homepage" /></a> <a href="mailto:abird@w3.org"><img src="/Icons/envelope.gif" alt="email" /> abird@w3.org</a></address>
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<div class='foaf-person'><h3><a name="jbrewer" id="jbrewer" class='foaf-name'><span class='foaf-given'>Judy</span> <span class='foaf-family'>Brewer</span></a>, WAI Domain Leader</h3>
<img src="http://www.w3.org/2003/02/Judy_Brewer.jpeg" alt="" class='foaf-depiction' />
<div><p><a href="Brewer/">Judy Brewer</a> joined W3C in September
1997 as Director of the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI)
International Program Office. She is Domain Leader for WAI, and coordinates five areas of work with respect to Web accessibility: ensuring that W3C technologies support accessibility; developing guidelines for Web content, browsers, and authoring tools; improving tools for evaluation and repair of Web sites; conducting education and outreach; and coordinating with research and development that can affect future Web accessibility.</p>
<p>Judy is W3C's chief liaison on accessibility policy and standardization internationally, promoting awareness and implementation of Web accessibility, and ensuring effective dialog among industry, the disability community, accessibility researchers, and government on the development of consensus-based accessibility solutions.</p>
<p>Prior to joining W3C, Judy was Project Director for the Massachusetts Assistive Technology Partnership, a U.S. federally-funded project promoting access to assistive technology for people with disabilities. She worked on several national initiatives to increase access to mainstream technology for people with disabilities and to improve dialog between industry and the disability community. Judy has a background in applied linguistics, education, technical writing, management and disability advocacy.</p></div>
<address><a href="Brewer" rel='foaf-home'><img src="/Icons/house.gif" alt="homepage" /></a> <a href="mailto:jbrewer@w3.org"><img src="/Icons/envelope.gif" alt="email" /> jbrewer@w3.org</a></address>
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<div class='foaf-person'><h3><a name="jerome" id="jerome" class='foaf-name'><span class='foaf-given'>Jérôme</span> <span class='foaf-family'>Chailloux</span></a>, Site Manager for W3C/ERCIM</h3>
<img src="http://www.w3.org/People/jerome-small.jpg" alt="" class='foaf-depiction' />
<div><p>Jérôme joined the W3C Team in June 2006. Prior to that, Jérôme worked as a researcher and research director at INRIA, France, in the areas of automatic VLSI design, software engineering, and knowledge-based systems. Jérôme was the main inventor and developer of the programming language Le-Lisp. Jérôme co-founded ILOG in 1987, taking on the roles of Chief Scientific Officer and Director.
Up till 2000, he was a member of the French Co-ordination Committee for Science and Information Technology and Communication of the National Ministry for Education, Research and Technology. Starting in 1995, he was Chief Information Officer of the genomics company GENSET.
</p>
<p>
On May 2005, ERCIM's Board of Directors has nominated Jérôme as Manager of ERCIM.
</p></div>
<address><a href="mailto:jerome@w3.org"><img src="/Icons/envelope.gif" alt="email" /> jerome@w3.org</a></address>
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<div class='foaf-person'><h3><a name="danield" id="danield" class='foaf-name'><span class='foaf-given'>Daniel</span> <span class='foaf-family'>Dardailler</span></a>, Associate Chair for Europe</h3>
<img src="/People/danield/ddcravs.gif" alt="" class='foaf-depiction' />
<div><p><a href="danield">Daniel Dardailler</a> joined the W3C team in
July 1996 and after leading various technical projects, like the <a href="http://www.w3.org/WAI/history">WAI</a> (Web Accessibility Initiative) or the W3C <a href="/QA/TheMatrix">QA</a> activity, and serving as Europe operational manager for several years, he is now W3C Associate Chair for Europe and <a href="/2007/IntlRel.html">W3C Director of International Relations</a>.</p>
<p>Prior to working for W3C, Daniel was already working for standard as a Software Architect for the X
Window System Consortium, responsible for pieces of the Motif toolkit and
the Common Unix Desktop.</p>
<p>Daniel holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of
Nice/Sophia-Antipolis (89) in the area of digital typography and X protocol network.</p></div>
<address><a href="danield" rel='foaf-home'><img src="/Icons/house.gif" alt="homepage" /></a> <a href="mailto:danield@w3.org"><img src="/Icons/envelope.gif" alt="email" /> danield@w3.org</a></address>
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<div class='foaf-person'><h3><a name="ted" id="ted" class='foaf-name'><span class='foaf-given'>Ted</span> <span class='foaf-family'>Guild</span></a>, Head of Systems Team</h3>
<img src="/People/tg.jpg" alt="" class='foaf-depiction' />
<div><p>Ted joined the W3C in January of 2000. He comes to the
Consortium from the corporate IT community having worked for a
mortgage and investment company, a power utility, an internet service
provider, and a marketing and communications company. He earned a
bachelors in Russian from Hobart College. He also spent some time
as an English as a Second Language and Mathematics instructor.</p></div>
<address><a href="Ted" rel='foaf-home'><img src="/Icons/house.gif" alt="homepage" /></a> <a href="mailto:ted@w3.org"><img src="/Icons/envelope.gif" alt="email" /> ted@w3.org</a></address>
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<div class='foaf-person'><h3><a name="hagino" id="hagino" class='foaf-name'><span class='foaf-given'>Tatsuya</span> <span class='foaf-family'>Hagino</span></a>, Deputy Director for Asia</h3>
<div><p>Tatsuya joined W3C at Keio-SFC in September 1997 as
Deputy Director for Asian operations.
He is Professor of the Faculty of Environmental
Information at Keio University.</p>
<p>
His current areas of interests are System Software and Web Technology. He received his Ph.D in Computer Science from the University of Edinburgh.</p>
</div>
<address><a href="mailto:hagino@w3.org"><img src="/Icons/envelope.gif" alt="email" /> hagino@w3.org</a></address>
</div>
<div class='foaf-person'><h3><a name="ph" id="ph" class='foaf-name'><span class='foaf-given'>Philipp</span> <span class='foaf-family'>Hoschka</span></a>, Deputy Director for Europe; Ubiquitous Web Domain Leader</h3>
<img src="http://www.w3.org/2006/05/u/c734aea52c64-sm.jpg" alt="" class='foaf-depiction' />
<div><p><a href="http://www.w3.org/People/hoschka/">Philipp Hoschka</a> is a Deputy Director of the W3C. His main interest is bringing the benefits of Web
technology to mobile and other non-PC devices. Since 2006, he is leading <a
href="http://www.w3.org/UbiWeb/">W3C's Ubiquitous Web Domain</a> which
includes <a href="http://www.w3.org/Mobile/">W3C's
Mobile Web Initiative</a>created by Philipp in 2005. In the past, he
pioneered work on integrating audio and video into the Web. Philipp founded,
chaired and served as editor for the Working Group that developed the <a
href="http://www.w3.org/TR/SMIL/">W3C Standard
SMIL</a> which today is an integral part of mobile phone MMS messaging.
Philipp also lead <a href="http://www.w3.org/TV/">W3C's
"Television and the Web</a>" Activity. He previously directed <a
href="http://www.w3.org/Architecture">W3C's Architecture
Domain</a>, which issues all core XML specifications from the W3C. Philipp
chaired numerous W3C workshops that explored new Web developments, such as
Workshops on <a href="http://www.w3.org/2004/09/mwi-workshop-cfp.html">the Mobile Web Initiative</a>, <a
href="http://www.w3.org/2001/01/WSWS">Web Services</a>, <a
href="http://www.w3.org/Architecture/1998/06/Workshop/">Television and the Web</a>, <a
href="http://www.w3.org/Architecture/9709_Workshop/">Push
Technology</a> and <a href="http://www.w3.org/AudioVideo/RTMW96.html">Real-Time Multimedia and the Web</a>. Philipp holds a Ph.D.
degree in Computer Science, and a Master's Degree in Computer Science from
the University of Karlsruhe, Germany.</p></div>
<address><a href="hoschka" rel='foaf-home'><img src="/Icons/house.gif" alt="homepage" /></a> <a href="mailto:ph@w3.org"><img src="/Icons/envelope.gif" alt="email" /> ph@w3.org</a></address>
</div>
<div class='foaf-person'><h3><a name="masao" id="masao" class='foaf-name'><span class='foaf-given'>Masao</span> <span class='foaf-family'>Isshiki</span></a>, Site Manager for W3C/Keio</h3>
<img src="/People/Masao/masao-small.jpg" alt="" class='foaf-depiction' />
<div><p>
Masao joined the W3C Team in January 2009 as the W3C/Keio site
Manager.
He is responsible for managing the W3C/Keio site and W3C Asian
activities including Member recruiting and other member related
work.
He is a professor of Keio University.
</p>
<p>
Masao has been working at Toshiba for 27 years on
consumer electronics business (hardware and software design of air-conditioner (15 years)),
system design
and business coordination for collaboration,
and also as a leader for a new business creating project.
He was involved in
energy conservation technology,
simulation for room temperature distribution,
Genetic Algorism application
and data mining for life log.
His latest work there was
a general manager of the home network business division (10 years),
which developed
<a href="http://feminity.toshiba.co.jp/feminity/feminity_eng/index.html">
a home IT system</a>.
He also worked for the
<a href="http://www.echonet.gr.jp/english/index.htm">ECHONET Consortium</a>,
which develops a global standard for the Web based home network system.
ECHONET Consortium consists of 100 member companies.
Masao was a steering committee member for 6 years and the chairman for
1 year in that consortium.
</p>
<p>
Masao holds a Ph.D. degree in heat transfer engineering from the Tokyo
University of Agriculture and Technology, and a master's degree in
mechanical engineering from the University of Tokyo Institute of
Technology. He currently lives in Tokyo, Japan.
</p>
</div>
<address><a href="mailto:masao@w3.org"><img src="/Icons/envelope.gif" alt="email" /> masao@w3.org</a></address>
</div>
<div class='foaf-person'><h3><a name="ij" id="ij" class='foaf-name'><span class='foaf-given'>Ian</span> <span class='foaf-family'>Jacobs</span></a>, Head of W3C Communications</h3>
<img src="/People/ij.jpg" alt="" class='foaf-depiction' />
<div><p>In September 2004, Ian became Head of W3C Communications. He manages
the Consortium's Comm activities, including press, publications,
branding, marketing, and some member relations.</p>
<p>Ian began at W3C in 1997. Since then he
has co-edited a number of specifications, including
<a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40">HTML 4.0</a>,
<a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-css2">CSS2</a>,
<a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-DOM-Level-1">DOM Level 1</a>,
three WAI Guidelines
(<a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG">Web Content</a>,
<a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/UAAG">User Agent</a>,
<a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/ATAG">Authoring Tool</a>),
the TAG's <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/webarch/">Architecture of
the World Wide Web</a>,
and the <a href="http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Process">W3C Process
Document</a>.</p>
<p><a href="Jacobs">Ian Jacobs</a> studied computer science in
France after college (Yale), and worked at
<a href="http://www.inria.fr">INRIA</a> for five years
on a system called "Centaur". After spending more than six years
in France and six months in Italy working with the University
of Bologna Computer Science Department, he moved back to
New York City in 1994 to do some creative writing. He currently lives in Chicago, IL (USA).</p>
</div>
<address><a href="Jacobs" rel='foaf-home'><img src="/Icons/house.gif" alt="homepage" /></a> <a href="mailto:ij@w3.org"><img src="/Icons/envelope.gif" alt="email" /> ij@w3.org</a></address>
</div>
<div class='foaf-person'><h3><a name="plh" id="plh" class='foaf-name'><span class='foaf-given'>Philippe</span> <span class='foaf-family'>Le Hégaret</span></a>, Interaction Domain Leader</h3>
<img src="/People/plh" alt="" class='foaf-depiction' />
<div><p>
Philippe Le Hegaret heads the W3C Interaction Domain, which produces
frontend Web technologies including HTML5, CSS3, SVG, WOFF, or Web
APIs. Until July 2008, Philippe lead the W3C Architecture Domain,
which produced the W3C Core technologies in the area of XML, Web
Services, and Internationalization. He is a former Chair of the
Document Object Model (DOM) Working Group.
</p>
<p>
Prior to joining W3C, Philippe promoted the use of XML inside <a href='http://www.bull.com/'>Bull</a> in 1998, also focusing on the interaction between <a href='http://old.koalateam.com/XML/serialization/'>XML and object structures</a>. He wrote the first version of the <a href="http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/">CSS validator</a> in 1997.
</p>
<p>
Philippe holds a Master's Degree in Computer Science from the University of
Nice (France).
</p></div>
<address><a href="LeHegaret" rel='foaf-home'><img src="/Icons/house.gif" alt="homepage" /></a> <a href="mailto:plh@w3.org"><img src="/Icons/envelope.gif" alt="email" /> plh@w3.org</a></address>
</div>
<div class='foaf-person'><h3><a name="tlr" id="tlr" class='foaf-name'><span class='foaf-given'>Thomas</span> <span class='foaf-family'>Roessler</span></a>, T&S Domain Leader</h3>
<img src="http://www.w3.org/2006/05/u/e68816d0babf-sm.jpg" alt="" class='foaf-depiction' />
<div><p>Thomas Roessler joined the W3C Team in November 2004 to work on
security, privacy, and European policy issues. He currently serves as Technology and Society Domain Leader.</p>
<p>Prior to
joining W3C, Thomas worked at the University of Bonn on numerics of
partial differential equations, and collected programming, systems
administration and computer forensics experience. He served as the lead
maintainer of the free software mail user agent <a href="http://www.mutt.org/">mutt</a>. Thomas
has published and given talks on topics including anonymization
services, legal questions of digital signatures, and online privacy. He
holds a degree in mathematics.</p>
<p>Thomas served as the Technical Liaison to the ICANN Board in 2009, and is chair of the Board of the <a href="http://www.webfoundation.org/about/usboard.html">World Wide Web Foundation</a> (Delaware, US).</p></div>
<address><a href="mailto:tlr@w3.org"><img src="/Icons/envelope.gif" alt="email" /> tlr@w3.org</a></address>
</div>
<div class='foaf-person'><h3><a name="nobuo.saito" id="nobuo.saito" class='foaf-name'><span class='foaf-given'>Nobuo</span> <span class='foaf-family'>Saito</span></a>, Associate Chair for Asia</h3>
<img src="/People/nb" alt="" class='foaf-depiction' />
<div><p>Nobuo is directing the W3C team at Keio University,
where he established the third Consortium host in September 1996.
And he also serves at the Consortium's Associate Chair for Asia. </p>
<p>
As Emeritus Professor of <a
href="http://www.keio.ac.jp">Keio University</a> and Dean of <a href="http://www.komazawa-u.ac.jp/gakubu/gms/">Faculty of Global Media Studies</a>, Komazawa University, Nobuo's areas of expertise
are in Operating Systems, Parallel Processing, Distributed Processing
Environments, Document Processing, Software Engineering, Software Development
and Digital Media Environments.</p>
<p>
Nobuo received his PhD in Engineering from the Graduate School of Engineering
at the University of Tokyo. Before becoming a Vice President of Keio University, he was Dean of the Faculty of Environmental Information.</p></div>
<address><a href="Saito" rel='foaf-home'><img src="/Icons/house.gif" alt="homepage" /></a> <a href="mailto:nobuo.saito@w3.org"><img src="/Icons/envelope.gif" alt="email" /> nobuo.saito@w3.org</a></address>
</div>
<div class='foaf-person'><h3><a name="swick" id="swick" class='foaf-name'><span class='foaf-given'>Ralph</span> <span class='foaf-family'>Swick</span></a>, Chief Operating Officer</h3>
<img src="/People/rs.jpg" alt="" class='foaf-depiction' />
<div>Ralph joined W3C in January 1997, to focus on the Privacy and
Demographics project. As that project (now called
P3P) was starting, Ralph also started the
Metadata project. The
Resource Description Framework
became a full-time
responsibility when the Metadata Activity turned into the Semantic Web Activity.
In 2007 Ralph became the leader of the Technology and Society Domain and in 2009 was appointed Acting Chief Operating Officer. As of 2010 the 'acting' qualfier was removed. Ralph came to us from the X Consortium, where he
was Technical Director for the X Window System. Ralph brings to W3C
both a systems background and an application background. Long
involved with the X Window System, Ralph was one of the architects
of the Xt Intrinsics (user interface) toolkit.
Prior to joining the X Consortium, Ralph was a software engineer
for Digital Equipment Corporation in their Office Systems Advanced
Development Group. There he worked on information filtering tools
(software agents) and computer-supported cooperative work tools.
Before that, Ralph was in Digital's Corporate Research Group
working at MIT Project Athena. Ralph holds a BS in Physics and
Mathematics from Carnegie-Mellon University.
Ralph's interests are in applications of Web technologies to
support human-human interaction, especially over time and distance.</div>
<address><a href="mailto:swick@w3.org"><img src="/Icons/envelope.gif" alt="email" /> swick@w3.org</a></address>
</div>
<hr />
<h2><a name="AdministrativeSupport" id="AdministrativeSupport">Administrative Support</a></h2>
<div class='foaf-person'><h3><a name="susan" id="susan" class='foaf-name'><span class='foaf-given'>Susan</span> <span class='foaf-family'>Westhaver</span></a></h3>
<img src="/People/sh.jpg" alt="" class='foaf-depiction' />
<div><p>Susan Hardy joined the W3C in September 1995. She is the head of
the Administrative staff at MIT and primary organizer of W3C
workshops, US Advisory Committee meetings and working group
meetings. Previously, Susan worked with Bob Scheifler and the MIT X
Consortium for three years, and has been a part of the Laboratory
for Computer Science for nearly ten years.</p></div>
<address><a href="mailto:susan@w3.org"><img src="/Icons/envelope.gif" alt="email" /> susan@w3.org</a></address>
</div>
<div class='foaf-person'><h3><a name="cbaron" id="cbaron" class='foaf-name'><span class='foaf-given'>Caroline</span> <span class='foaf-family'>Baron</span></a></h3>
<img src="http://www.w3.org/2006/05/u/36764983c937-small.jpg" alt="" class='foaf-depiction' />
<div><a href="/People/cbaron">Caroline</a> is W3C Europe administrative and finance manager at ERCIM.<br />
She joined the team in December 2001 and is now in charge of finance, accounting and human resources.<br />
Caroline holds a BA in foreign applied languages and an MBA from the <a href="http://portail.unice.fr/jahia/Jahia/">University of Nice Sophia Antipolis</a>.</div>
<address><a href="cbaron" rel='foaf-home'><img src="/Icons/house.gif" alt="homepage" /></a> <a href="mailto:cbaron@w3.org"><img src="/Icons/envelope.gif" alt="email" /> cbaron@w3.org</a></address>
</div>
<div class='foaf-person'><h3><a name="alex" id="alex" class='foaf-name'><span class='foaf-given'>Alexandra</span> <span class='foaf-family'>Lavirotte</span></a></h3>
<img src="/People/alex-small.jpg" alt="" class='foaf-depiction' />
<div><p>Alexandra joined the team in September 2002 as a replacement for Caroline Baron and dealt with accountancy. </p><p>She joined the Communications team in February 2003 as W3C Europe Communications assistant. She handled quicktips shipments for Europe, Africa and Australia, she edited press-clippings on "W3C in the Press", processed membership contracts for Europe and handled their queries.</p>
<p>She joined the Administrative Support in September 2003 and assists the Sophia and Europe team.</p></div>
<address><a href="Alexandra/" rel='foaf-home'><img src="/Icons/house.gif" alt="homepage" /></a> <a href="mailto:alex@w3.org"><img src="/Icons/envelope.gif" alt="email" /> alex@w3.org</a></address>
</div>
<div class='foaf-person'><h3><a name="barbara" id="barbara" class='foaf-name'><span class='foaf-given'>Barbara</span> <span class='foaf-family'>Saba-Gagnon</span></a></h3>
<div>Barbara comes to W3C from Fidelity Investments where she supported the Vice Chairman, Chairman, President and Chief Auditor on a rotating basis. She holds a B.A. from Wellesley College in Political Science and African Studies and a Certificate in Vocal Studies and Theatre from the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. </div>
<address><a href="mailto:barbara@w3.org"><img src="/Icons/envelope.gif" alt="email" /> barbara@w3.org</a></address>
</div>
<div class='foaf-person'><h3><a name="amy" id="amy" class='foaf-name'><span class='foaf-given'>Amy</span> <span class='foaf-family'>van der Hiel</span></a></h3>
<img src="http://www.w3.org/2006/05/u/25b37077a7ee-small.jpg" alt="" class='foaf-depiction' />
<div><p>Amy van der Hiel is the assistant to Tim Berners-Lee, a meeting planner and part of the administrative team.
</p>
<p>Before joining the W3C, Amy was the Assistant to the Director and Curatorial Associate at the Exhibitions Department of the Massachusetts College of Art, Boston. She has her Bachelors in Art History from Bard College, NY and her Masters in Art Education from Mansfield University, PA.</p></div>
<address><a href="mailto:amy@w3.org"><img src="/Icons/envelope.gif" alt="email" /> amy@w3.org</a></address>
</div>
<div class='foaf-person'><h3><a name="naomi" id="naomi" class='foaf-name'><span class='foaf-given'>Naomi</span> <span class='foaf-family'>Yoshizawa</span></a></h3>
<div>Naomi joined the team in July 2010 to provide Membership Contract &
Administrative Support. Prior to joining W3C, Naomi worked at
AT&T Japan as a manager of Marketing Communications for AT&T
World Access. She worked on a team that created an innovative prepaid card, produced publications and bids for designs and developed sales channels. She was awarded a Grand Prize for Best Operations Coordinator in 1996. Naomi has a Bachelors in Literature from Aoyama Gakuin University. </div>
<address><a href="naomi/" rel='foaf-home'><img src="/Icons/house.gif" alt="homepage" /></a> <a href="mailto:naomi@w3.org"><img src="/Icons/envelope.gif" alt="email" /> naomi@w3.org</a></address>
</div>
<hr />
<h2><a name="BusinessDevelopment" id="BusinessDevelopment">Business Development</a></h2>
<div class='foaf-person'><h3>Jeff Jaffe, Chief Executive Officer</h3>
<img src="http://www.w3.org/2010/03/JeffreyJaffe_thumb.jpg" alt="" class='foaf-depiction' />
<div><p>Dr. Jeffrey Jaffe became the W3C CEO on 8 March 2010.</p>
<p>Before joining W3C, Jeff served as the Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer for Novell. He was responsible for Novell's technology direction, as well as leading Novell's product business units.</p>
<p>Prior to that Jeff served as president of Bell Labs Research and Advanced Technologies, where he established new facilities in Ireland and India, and served as chairman of the board of the New Jersey Nanotechnology Consortium.</p>
<p>Early in his career, after receiving a Ph.D. in computer science from MIT in 1979, Jeff joined IBM's Thomas J. Watson Research Center. During his tenure at IBM, he held a wide variety of technical and management positions, including vice president, Systems and Software Research, corporate vice president of technology, and general manager of IBM's SecureWay business unit, where he was responsible for IBM's security, directory, and networking software business.</p>
</div>
<address><a href="Jeff/" rel='foaf-home'><img src="/Icons/house.gif" alt="homepage" /></a> <a href="mailto:jeff@w3.org"><img src="/Icons/envelope.gif" alt="email" /> jeff@w3.org</a></address>
</div>
<div class='foaf-person'><h3>J. Alan Bird, Global Business Development Lead</h3>
<img src="/People/AlanBird/alanbird-sm.jpg" alt="" class='foaf-depiction' />
<div><p>Alan Bird is the Global Business Development Lead for W3C. In this role, Mr. Bird leads W3C staff efforts internationally to strengthen the W3C Membership program, identify business development strategies, and seek new revenue streams to support the organization. Alan joined W3C in January 2011.</p>
</div>
<address><a href="AlanBird" rel='foaf-home'><img src="/Icons/house.gif" alt="homepage" /></a> <a href="mailto:abird@w3.org"><img src="/Icons/envelope.gif" alt="email" /> abird@w3.org</a></address>
</div>
<div class='foaf-person'><h3><a name="bgidon" id="bgidon" class='foaf-name'><span class='foaf-given'>Bernard</span> <span class='foaf-family'>Gidon</span></a>, EMEA Business Development Leader</h3>
<img src="http://www.w3.org/People/Bgidon/Bgidon-small.jpg" alt="" class='foaf-depiction' />
<div>Bernard joined W3C in June 2011 to lead Business Development in EMEA. He is based in Sophia Antipolis. Bernard's background in business development and sales activities in EMEA for hardware, software and Telecom companies, brings to W3C growth capabilities in Europe, Middle-East and Africa.</div>
<address><a href="http://www.w3.org/People/Bgidon/Overview.html" rel='foaf-home'><img src="/Icons/house.gif" alt="homepage" /></a> <a href="mailto:bgidon@w3.org"><img src="/Icons/envelope.gif" alt="email" /> bgidon@w3.org</a></address>
</div>
<div class='foaf-person'><h3>Masao Isshiki, Site Manager for W3C/Keio</h3>
<img src="/People/Masao/masao-small.jpg" alt="" class='foaf-depiction' />
<div><p>
Masao joined the W3C Team in January 2009 as the W3C/Keio site
Manager.
He is responsible for managing the W3C/Keio site and W3C Asian
activities including Member recruiting and other member related
work.
He is a professor of Keio University.
</p>
<p>
Masao has been working at Toshiba for 27 years on
consumer electronics business (hardware and software design of air-conditioner (15 years)),
system design
and business coordination for collaboration,
and also as a leader for a new business creating project.
He was involved in
energy conservation technology,
simulation for room temperature distribution,
Genetic Algorism application
and data mining for life log.
His latest work there was
a general manager of the home network business division (10 years),
which developed
<a href="http://feminity.toshiba.co.jp/feminity/feminity_eng/index.html">
a home IT system</a>.
He also worked for the
<a href="http://www.echonet.gr.jp/english/index.htm">ECHONET Consortium</a>,
which develops a global standard for the Web based home network system.
ECHONET Consortium consists of 100 member companies.
Masao was a steering committee member for 6 years and the chairman for
1 year in that consortium.
</p>
<p>
Masao holds a Ph.D. degree in heat transfer engineering from the Tokyo
University of Agriculture and Technology, and a master's degree in
mechanical engineering from the University of Tokyo Institute of
Technology. He currently lives in Tokyo, Japan.
</p>
</div>
<address><a href="mailto:masao@w3.org"><img src="/Icons/envelope.gif" alt="email" /> masao@w3.org</a></address>
</div>
<div class='foaf-person'><h3><a name="karen" id="karen" class='foaf-name'><span class='foaf-given'>Karen</span> <span class='foaf-family'>Myers</span></a>, Development Officer</h3>
<img src="/2004/10/kmyers.png" alt="" class='foaf-depiction' />
<div>Karen Myers develops Membership outreach at W3C. She originally joined W3C July 2004 to support media relations, member communications, speaking engagements, and special assignments such as W3C10, the World Wide Web's ten year anniversary celebration. Prior to W3C, Karen ran her own company and also worked for marketing and communications agencies such as BrandEquity International and Leo Burnett Technology Group, where she established a ten-person strategic planning group in Boston, and managed a global client services team in Frankfurt, Germany. She has consulted for a diversity of technology clients including Akamai, Allaire, Aprisma, Axis, CMGI, Digital, Comdial,Computer Associates, Heidelberg, IBM, Information Builders, KPMG, and Unisys. </div>
<address><a href="mailto:karen@w3.org"><img src="/Icons/envelope.gif" alt="email" /> karen@w3.org</a></address>
</div>
<div class='foaf-person'><h3>Ralph Swick, Chief Operating Officer</h3>
<img src="/People/rs.jpg" alt="" class='foaf-depiction' />
<div>Ralph joined W3C in January 1997, to focus on the Privacy and
Demographics project. As that project (now called
P3P) was starting, Ralph also started the
Metadata project. The
Resource Description Framework
became a full-time
responsibility when the Metadata Activity turned into the Semantic Web Activity.
In 2007 Ralph became the leader of the Technology and Society Domain and in 2009 was appointed Acting Chief Operating Officer. As of 2010 the 'acting' qualfier was removed. Ralph came to us from the X Consortium, where he
was Technical Director for the X Window System. Ralph brings to W3C
both a systems background and an application background. Long
involved with the X Window System, Ralph was one of the architects
of the Xt Intrinsics (user interface) toolkit.
Prior to joining the X Consortium, Ralph was a software engineer
for Digital Equipment Corporation in their Office Systems Advanced
Development Group. There he worked on information filtering tools
(software agents) and computer-supported cooperative work tools.
Before that, Ralph was in Digital's Corporate Research Group
working at MIT Project Athena. Ralph holds a BS in Physics and
Mathematics from Carnegie-Mellon University.
Ralph's interests are in applications of Web technologies to
support human-human interaction, especially over time and distance.</div>
<address><a href="mailto:swick@w3.org"><img src="/Icons/envelope.gif" alt="email" /> swick@w3.org</a></address>
</div>
<hr />
<h2><a name="Communications" id="Communications">Communications</a></h2>
<div class='foaf-person'><h3>Ian Jacobs, Head of W3C Communications</h3>
<img src="/People/ij.jpg" alt="" class='foaf-depiction' />
<div><p>In September 2004, Ian became Head of W3C Communications. He manages
the Consortium's Comm activities, including press, publications,
branding, marketing, and some member relations.</p>
<p>Ian began at W3C in 1997. Since then he
has co-edited a number of specifications, including
<a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40">HTML 4.0</a>,
<a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-css2">CSS2</a>,
<a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-DOM-Level-1">DOM Level 1</a>,
three WAI Guidelines
(<a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG">Web Content</a>,
<a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/UAAG">User Agent</a>,
<a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/ATAG">Authoring Tool</a>),
the TAG's <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/webarch/">Architecture of
the World Wide Web</a>,
and the <a href="http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Process">W3C Process
Document</a>.</p>
<p><a href="Jacobs">Ian Jacobs</a> studied computer science in
France after college (Yale), and worked at
<a href="http://www.inria.fr">INRIA</a> for five years
on a system called "Centaur". After spending more than six years
in France and six months in Italy working with the University
of Bologna Computer Science Department, he moved back to
New York City in 1994 to do some creative writing. He currently lives in Chicago, IL (USA).</p>
</div>
<address><a href="Jacobs" rel='foaf-home'><img src="/Icons/house.gif" alt="homepage" /></a> <a href="mailto:ij@w3.org"><img src="/Icons/envelope.gif" alt="email" /> ij@w3.org</a></address>
</div>
<div class='foaf-person'><h3><a name="madamic" id="madamic" class='foaf-name'><span class='foaf-given'>Michelle</span> <span class='foaf-family'>Adamic</span></a></h3>
<div></div>
<address><a href="mailto:madamic@w3.org"><img src="/Icons/envelope.gif" alt="email" /> madamic@w3.org</a></address>
</div>
<div class='foaf-person'><h3><a name="coralie" id="coralie" class='foaf-name'><span class='foaf-given'>Coralie</span> <span class='foaf-family'>Mercier</span></a></h3>
<img src="/People/koalie-56x72.jpg" alt="" class='foaf-depiction' />
<div><p>Coralie joined the team in January 1999, as W3C Europe administrative assistant, with a degree in secretarial work and English as a foreign language. She became W3C Europe administration manager and five years later she joined the W3C Communications Team. Her <a href="http://www.w3.org/People/CMercier/Mission/admin_manager.html">duties</a> include <a href="http://www.w3.org/2002/ab/">Advisory Board</a> scribe duties and meetings planning, <a href="http://www.w3.org/Press/Articles">W3C press clippings</a>, management of <a href="http://www.w3.org/Consortium/sup">Supporters Program</a> applications, monitoring translators' list, being contact person for authorized translations. She is also involved in community development and outreach (microblogging, W3C blog). She became <a href="http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/">Incubator Activity</a> Lead in January 2010.</p></div>
<address><a href="CMercier" rel='foaf-home'><img src="/Icons/house.gif" alt="homepage" /></a> <a href="mailto:coralie@w3.org"><img src="/Icons/envelope.gif" alt="email" /> coralie@w3.org</a></address>
</div>
<div class='foaf-person'><h3>Karen Myers, Development Officer</h3>
<img src="/2004/10/kmyers.png" alt="" class='foaf-depiction' />
<div>Karen Myers develops Membership outreach at W3C. She originally joined W3C July 2004 to support media relations, member communications, speaking engagements, and special assignments such as W3C10, the World Wide Web's ten year anniversary celebration. Prior to W3C, Karen ran her own company and also worked for marketing and communications agencies such as BrandEquity International and Leo Burnett Technology Group, where she established a ten-person strategic planning group in Boston, and managed a global client services team in Frankfurt, Germany. She has consulted for a diversity of technology clients including Akamai, Allaire, Aprisma, Axis, CMGI, Digital, Comdial,Computer Associates, Heidelberg, IBM, Information Builders, KPMG, and Unisys. </div>
<address><a href="mailto:karen@w3.org"><img src="/Icons/envelope.gif" alt="email" /> karen@w3.org</a></address>
</div>
<div class='foaf-person'><h3><a name="msiderwicz" id="msiderwicz" class='foaf-name'><span class='foaf-given'>Marilyn</span> <span class='foaf-family'>Siderwicz</span></a></h3>
<div></div>
<address><a href="mailto:msiderwicz@w3.org"><img src="/Icons/envelope.gif" alt="email" /> msiderwicz@w3.org</a></address>
</div>
<hr />
<h2><a name="Interaction" id="Interaction">Interaction</a></h2>
<div class='foaf-person'><h3>Philippe Le Hégaret, Interaction Domain Leader</h3>
<img src="/People/plh" alt="" class='foaf-depiction' />
<div><p>
Philippe Le Hegaret heads the W3C Interaction Domain, which produces
frontend Web technologies including HTML5, CSS3, SVG, WOFF, or Web
APIs. Until July 2008, Philippe lead the W3C Architecture Domain,
which produced the W3C Core technologies in the area of XML, Web
Services, and Internationalization. He is a former Chair of the
Document Object Model (DOM) Working Group.
</p>
<p>
Prior to joining W3C, Philippe promoted the use of XML inside <a href='http://www.bull.com/'>Bull</a> in 1998, also focusing on the interaction between <a href='http://old.koalateam.com/XML/serialization/'>XML and object structures</a>. He wrote the first version of the <a href="http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/">CSS validator</a> in 1997.
</p>
<p>
Philippe holds a Master's Degree in Computer Science from the University of
Nice (France).
</p></div>
<address><a href="LeHegaret" rel='foaf-home'><img src="/Icons/house.gif" alt="homepage" /></a> <a href="mailto:plh@w3.org"><img src="/Icons/envelope.gif" alt="email" /> plh@w3.org</a></address>
</div>
<div class='foaf-person'><h3><a name="bert" id="bert" class='foaf-name'><span class='foaf-given'>Bert</span> <span class='foaf-family'>Bos</span></a></h3>
<img src="/People/Bos/bert3-small.jpg" alt="" class='foaf-depiction' />
<div><p><a href="/People/Bos">Bert Bos</a> completed his Ph.D. in Groningen, The
Netherlands, on a prototyping language for graphical user
interfaces. He then went on to develop a browser targeted at humanities scholars, before joining the W3C at
INRIA/Sophia-Antipolis in October 1995. He is co-inventor of <a href="/Style/CSS">CSS</a> and created & led W3C's <a href="/International">Internationalization</a> activity. After working on <a href="/MarkUp">HTML</a> and <a href="/XML">XML</a>, he is now leading the CSS and <a href="/Math">Mathematics</a> activities.</p></div>
<address><a href="Bos" rel='foaf-home'><img src="/Icons/house.gif" alt="homepage" /></a> <a href="mailto:bert@w3.org"><img src="/Icons/envelope.gif" alt="email" /> bert@w3.org</a></address>
</div>
<div class='foaf-person'><h3><a name="ishida" id="ishida" class='foaf-name'><span class='foaf-given'>Richard</span> <span class='foaf-family'>Ishida</span></a>, Internationalization Activity Lead</h3>
<img src="/People/r12a.jpg" alt="" class='foaf-depiction' />
<div><p>Richard joined the W3C team in July 2002 to expand the work of the <a href="http://www.w3.org/International/">Internationalization Activity</a>. He is attached to ERCIM in France, but based in the UK.</p>
<p>He is Internationalization Activity Lead and staff contact of the <a href="http://www.w3.org/International/core/">Internationalization Core Working Group</a>.</p>
<p>Richard has a background in translation and interpreting, computational linguistics, software engineering, and translation tools. Prior to joining the W3C, he was an internationalization consultant, evangelizing and educating people with regard to the international design and localizability of user interfaces and documents.</p>
</div>
<address><a href="Ishida/" rel='foaf-home'><img src="/Icons/house.gif" alt="homepage" /></a> <a href="mailto:ishida@w3.org"><img src="/Icons/envelope.gif" alt="email" /> ishida@w3.org</a></address>
</div>
<div class='foaf-person'><h3><a name="chris" id="chris" class='foaf-name'><span class='foaf-given'>Chris</span> <span class='foaf-family'>Lilley</span></a>, Technical Director</h3>
<img src="/People/cl" alt="" class='foaf-depiction' />
<div>Chris is a Technical Director in the <a href="http://www.w3.org/Interaction/">Interaction Domain</a>. He is also
<a href="/Graphics/Activity">Graphics Activity</a> lead, co-chairs
the <a href="/Graphics/SVG">SVG</a>
Working Group, and co-chairs the Hypertext Coordination Group. He is a member of the CDF, SVG and WebCGM WGs. His interests include 2D graphics - both vector and raster -
XML, compound documents, and multilingual typography. He was for three years a member of the <a href="/2001/tag/">TAG</a>. Chris is based at
ERCIM/Sophia-Antipolis, France and joined W3C in 1996. He holds a BSc in Biochemistry, an
MSc in Biological Computation and a postgraduate diploma in
Bioinformatics. Previously at the Computer Graphics Unit, University of Manchester in the UK, he has been working with Web Graphics since 1993.</div>
<address><a href="chris" rel='foaf-home'><img src="/Icons/house.gif" alt="homepage" /></a> <a href="mailto:chris@w3.org"><img src="/Icons/envelope.gif" alt="email" /> chris@w3.org</a></address>
</div>
<div class='foaf-person'><h3><a name="tmichel" id="tmichel" class='foaf-name'><span class='foaf-given'>Thierry</span> <span class='foaf-family'>Michel</span></a></h3>
<img src="/People/tm.jpg" alt="" class='foaf-depiction' />
<div><p>Thierry joined W3C at <a href="http://www.inria.fr">INRIA</a> in August 1998 as leader of the <a href="/ECommerce/">ECommerce/Micropayment Activity</a>.</p>
<p>Then he has lead the <a href="/MarkUp/Forms/">XForms Activity</a>.</p>
<p>
Currently he leads the <a href="/AudioVideo/">Synchronized Multimedia Activity</a> (<a href="/Audiovideo/Group/">SYMM WG</a> and <a href="/Audiovideo/TT/Group/">Timed Text WG</a>). </p>
<p>
Thierry holds a Diplome d'Etudes Approfondies (D.E.A) in Genetics - Statistics and Information Technology (<a href="http://www.sigu7.jussieu.fr/">University Paris VII</a>).
</p></div>
<address><a href="tmichel" rel='foaf-home'><img src="/Icons/house.gif" alt="homepage" /></a> <a href="mailto:tmichel@w3.org"><img src="/Icons/envelope.gif" alt="email" /> tmichel@w3.org</a></address>
</div>
<div class='foaf-person'><h3><a name="schepers" id="schepers" class='foaf-name'><span class='foaf-given'>Doug</span> <span class='foaf-family'>Schepers</span></a>, Browser Standards Specialist</h3>
<img src="http://www.w3.org/People/Schepers/schepers-fez-small.png" alt="" class='foaf-depiction' />
<div><p>Doug Schepers joined the W3C Team in June 2007 as a Compound Document Specialist. He is Team Contact for the SVG, WebApps, and Web Events Working Groups, and Rich Web Client Activity Lead. He was previously AC Representative for Vectoreal and has been creating Web Applications for many years.</p></div>
<address><a href="Schepers/" rel='foaf-home'><img src="/Icons/house.gif" alt="homepage" /></a> <a href="mailto:schepers@w3.org"><img src="/Icons/envelope.gif" alt="email" /> schepers@w3.org</a></address>
</div>
<div class='foaf-person'><h3><a name="mike" id="mike" class='foaf-name'><span class='foaf-given'>Michael[tm]</span> <span class='foaf-family'>Smith</span></a>, Special Missions Subsection Junior Floor Manager</h3>
<img src="http://www.w3.org/People/smith.png" alt="" class='foaf-depiction' />
<div><p> <img style="float: left; padding-right: 4px" src="http://www.w3.org/html/logo/downloads/HTML5_Badge_32.png" alt="" /> <a href="http://www.w3.org/People/Smith/">Michael[tm] Smith</a>
joined the W3C in January 2007, as part of the W3C's <a
href="http://www.w3.org/Mobile/">Mobile Web Initiative</a>. He's now involved with work on core standards related to browsing technologies; in particular, the phenomenon known as <a href="http://www.w3.org/html/wg/">HTML5</a>, as well as other standards related to <a href="http://www.w3.org/2008/webapps/">Web Applications</a>. Mike has been
based in Tokyo since 2001, and prior to joining the W3C, worked for Opera Software and Openwave Systems (and was for most of that time involved with design, development, testing, and deployment of software for mobile operators in Japan).</p></div>
<address><a href="Smith/" rel='foaf-home'><img src="/Icons/house.gif" alt="homepage" /></a> <a href="mailto:mike@w3.org"><img src="/Icons/envelope.gif" alt="email" /> mike@w3.org</a></address>
</div>
<div class='foaf-person'><h3><a name="hiroki" id="hiroki" class='foaf-name'><span class='foaf-given'>Hiroki</span> <span class='foaf-family'>Yamada</span></a></h3>
<img src="http://www.w3.org/2006/05/u/1671efe035b9-sm.jpg" alt="" class='foaf-depiction' />
<div><p>Hiroki joined W3C team in November 2010 as W3C Fellow from <a href="http://www.internetacademy.jp/">Internet Academy</a>(Japanese company).</p>
<p>He is working for the making educational material for beginners.</p></div>
<address><a href="mailto:hiroki@w3.org"><img src="/Icons/envelope.gif" alt="email" /> hiroki@w3.org</a></address>
</div>
<hr />
<h2><a name="Systems" id="Systems">Systems</a></h2>
<div class='foaf-person'><h3>Ted Guild, Head of Systems Team</h3>
<img src="/People/tg.jpg" alt="" class='foaf-depiction' />
<div><p>Ted joined the W3C in January of 2000. He comes to the
Consortium from the corporate IT community having worked for a
mortgage and investment company, a power utility, an internet service
provider, and a marketing and communications company. He earned a
bachelors in Russian from Hobart College. He also spent some time
as an English as a Second Language and Mathematics instructor.</p></div>
<address><a href="Ted" rel='foaf-home'><img src="/Icons/house.gif" alt="homepage" /></a> <a href="mailto:ted@w3.org"><img src="/Icons/envelope.gif" alt="email" /> ted@w3.org</a></address>
</div>
<div class='foaf-person'><h3><a name="denis" id="denis" class='foaf-name'><span class='foaf-given'>Denis</span> <span class='foaf-family'>Ah-Kang</span></a>, Webmaster</h3>
<div></div>
<address><a href="mailto:denis@w3.org"><img src="/Icons/envelope.gif" alt="email" /> denis@w3.org</a></address>
</div>
<div class='foaf-person'><h3><a name="bertails" id="bertails" class='foaf-name'><span class='foaf-given'>Alexandre</span> <span class='foaf-family'>Bertails</span></a>, Webmaster</h3>
<div>Alexandre joined the W3C Team in July 2009.</div>
<address><a href="Alexandre/" rel='foaf-home'><img src="/Icons/house.gif" alt="homepage" /></a> <a href="mailto:bertails@w3.org"><img src="/Icons/envelope.gif" alt="email" /> bertails@w3.org</a></address>
</div>
<div class='foaf-person'><h3><a name="laurent" id="laurent" class='foaf-name'><span class='foaf-given'>Laurent</span> <span class='foaf-family'>Carcone</span></a></h3>
<div><p>Laurent joined the W3C team at Inria-Grenoble in September 2000
to participate in the development of Amaya. Before joining the W3C,
he worked as an engineer in the OPERA project at Inria-Grenoble.</p>
<p>Laurent hold an enineering degree in computer science from the CNAM
Grenoble (Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers) in 1997.</p></div>
<address><a href="Laurent/" rel='foaf-home'><img src="/Icons/house.gif" alt="homepage" /></a> <a href="mailto:laurent@w3.org"><img src="/Icons/envelope.gif" alt="email" /> laurent@w3.org</a></address>
</div>
<div class='foaf-person'><h3><a name="tgambet" id="tgambet" class='foaf-name'><span class='foaf-given'>Thomas</span> <span class='foaf-family'>Gambet</span></a></h3>
<div>Thomas joined W3C in summer 2009 as an intern on the Unicorn project.
Starting May 2010 he will work at MIT on W3C validators.</div>
<address><a href="mailto:tgambet@w3.org"><img src="/Icons/envelope.gif" alt="email" /> tgambet@w3.org</a></address>
</div>
<div class='foaf-person'><h3><a name="dom" id="dom" class='foaf-name'><span class='foaf-given'>Dominique</span> <span class='foaf-family'>Hazaël-Massieux</span></a>, Mobile Web Initiative Activity Lead</h3>
<img src="http://www.w3.org/People/Dom/portrait-s" alt="" class='foaf-depiction' />
<div><p><a href="/People/Dom/">Dominique</a> is the Activity Lead of the <a href="/Mobile/">Mobile Web Initiative</a>, serves as staff contact in the <a href="http://www.w3.org/2009/dap/">Device APIs and Policy Working Group</a>, and develops tools and applications as part of the W3C <a href="/blog/systeam">Systems Team</a>.</p>
<p>He joined initially W3Cs Communication and Systems Team as a member of the Webmaster Team in October 2000; after having joined then lead the <a href="/QA/Activity">QA Activity</a> until September 2005, Dom took part to the <a href="/2005/MWI/">Mobile Web Initiative</a> as Staff Contact for the <a href="/2005/MWI/BPWG/">Best Practices Working Group</a> and later as co-Chair of the <a href="/2005/MWI/Tests/">Mobile Web Test Suites Working Group</a>.</p>
<p>Dominique holds an engineering degree from the Grande Ecole <a href="http://www.ecp.fr">École Centrale Paris</a>.</p></div>
<address><a href="Dom/" rel='foaf-home'><img src="/Icons/house.gif" alt="homepage" /></a> <a href="mailto:dom@w3.org"><img src="/Icons/envelope.gif" alt="email" /> dom@w3.org</a></address>
</div>
<div class='foaf-person'><h3><a name="jose.kahan" id="jose.kahan" class='foaf-name'><span class='foaf-given'>José</span> <span class='foaf-family'>Kahan</span></a></h3>
<img src="/People/jk.jpg" alt="" class='foaf-depiction' />
<div>José joined W3C's technical staff, at <a href="http://www.inrialpes.fr/">INRIA Rhône-Alpes,</a> in January 1996. He participates in the development of <a href="/Amaya/">Amaya</a>, and in various other projects, including W3C's <a href="http://lists.w3.org/">hypertext mailing list archives</a>. José holds a <a href="ftp://ftp.irisa.fr/techreports/theses/1997/kahan.ps.gz">Ph.D. in computer science</a> from the <a href="http://www.ifsic.univ-rennes1.fr/">Université de Rennes I</a> (1997) and a specialization degree in computer networks from the <a href="http://hydromail.supelec-rennes.fr/ren/Bienvenue.html">École Supérieure d'Électricité</a> (SUPELEC), <a href="http://www.ville-rennes.fr/menu.htm">Rennes</a>.His research interests include distributed systems and W3 security.</div>
<address><a href="Jose" rel='foaf-home'><img src="/Icons/house.gif" alt="homepage" /></a> <a href="mailto:jose.kahan@w3.org"><img src="/Icons/envelope.gif" alt="email" /> jose.kahan@w3.org</a></address>
</div>
<div class='foaf-person'><h3><a name="vivien" id="vivien" class='foaf-name'><span class='foaf-given'>Vivien</span> <span class='foaf-family'>Lacourba</span></a>, Systems and Network Engineer</h3>
<img src="/People/Vivien/vivien-small.jpg" alt="" class='foaf-depiction' />
<div><p>
Vivien joined W3C in May 2003 as the W3C Webmaster at the <a
href="http://www.csail.mit.edu/"><abbr title="Massachusetts Institute of Technology">MIT</abbr>/<abbr title="Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory">CSAIL</abbr></a> host site in Cambridge, MA USA.
</p>
<p>
Since September 2004 Vivien is working as a Systems & Network Engineer for W3C Europe at the <a href="http://www.ercim.org/"><abbr title="European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics">ERCIM</abbr></a> host site in Sophia-Antipolis, France.
</p>
<p>
Vivien graduated in September 2003 from the <a href="http://www.essi.fr/">Ecole Supérieure en Sciences Informatiques</a> in Sophia-Antipolis, France.<br/> He holds an engineering degree in Computer Science, specializing in Networks. In June 2000, he received a two year degree in Computer Programming at the <a href="http://www.univ-lyon1.fr/">University of Lyon</a>, France.
</p></div>
<address><a href="Vivien/" rel='foaf-home'><img src="/Icons/house.gif" alt="homepage" /></a> <a href="mailto:vivien@w3.org"><img src="/Icons/envelope.gif" alt="email" /> vivien@w3.org</a></address>
</div>
<div class='foaf-person'><h3><a name="hiro" id="hiro" class='foaf-name'><span class='foaf-given'>Hirotaka</span> <span class='foaf-family'>Nakajima</span></a></h3>
<img src="http://www.w3.org/2006/05/u/14562ab826fe-sm.jpg" alt="" class='foaf-depiction' />
<div>Hirotaka joined W3C in April of 2010 after graduating from Keio University, Faculty of Environment and Information Studie. Before joining W3C, Hirotaka worked at a number of startups and had a lots of experiences from them. </div>
<address><a href="Hiro" rel='foaf-home'><img src="/Icons/house.gif" alt="homepage" /></a> <a href="mailto:hiro@w3.org"><img src="/Icons/envelope.gif" alt="email" /> hiro@w3.org</a></address>
</div>
<div class='foaf-person'><h3><a name="gerald" id="gerald" class='foaf-name'><span class='foaf-given'>Gerald</span> <span class='foaf-family'>Oskoboiny</span></a></h3>
<img src="/People/go.jpg" alt="" class='foaf-depiction' />
<div><p>
Gerald joined W3C in September 1997 as a member of the
Systems Team. He helps maintain W3C's system infrastructure
including the web and mail servers, mailing lists and publishing
tools. He created W3C's <a
href="http://validator.w3.org/">HTML Validation Service</a>
based on an earlier validation service he began as a student.
</p>
<p>
Prior to joining W3C, Gerald worked at the <a
href="http://www.ualberta.ca/">University of Alberta</a> in
Edmonton, Canada. He has also worked as a Web consultant for
various companies in the Edmonton area, and as a technical
writer for IBM Canada in Toronto.
</p>
<p>
In his free time Gerald enjoys <a
href="http://impressive.net/people/gerald/travel/">travel</a>, <a
href="http://impressive.net/people/gerald/photos/">photography</a>,
and writing <a
href="http://impressive.net/people/gerald/software/">software</a>.
</p>
<p>
Gerald has a Bachelor of Science with specialization in
Computing Science from the University of Alberta.
</p></div>
<address><a href="Gerald/" rel='foaf-home'><img src="/Icons/house.gif" alt="homepage" /></a> <a href="mailto:gerald@w3.org"><img src="/Icons/envelope.gif" alt="email" /> gerald@w3.org</a></address>
</div>
<div class='foaf-person'><h3><a name="jean-gui" id="jean-gui" class='foaf-name'><span class='foaf-given'>Jean-Guilhem</span> <span class='foaf-family'>Rouel</span></a></h3>
<img src="http://www.w3.org/People/jean-gui_mini" alt="" class='foaf-depiction' />
<div><p>
<a href="http://www.w3.org/People/Jean-Gui/">Jean-Guilhem</a> joined the W3C Systems Team in August 2006 as the W3C Webmaster at the <a
href="http://www.csail.mit.edu/"><abbr title="Massachusetts Institute of Technology">MIT</abbr>/<abbr title="Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory">CSAIL</abbr></a> host site in Cambridge, MA USA.
</p>
<p>
He graduated in October 2006 from <a href="http://www.polytech.unice.fr/informatique">Polytech'Nice-Sophia Computer Science Department</a> (formerly known as ESSI: Ecole Supérieure en Sciences Informatiques) specialized in Networks.
</p>
<p>
In September 2003 he received a two year degree in Mathematics and Computer Science (DEUG MIAS) at the <a href="http://www.univ-jfc.fr/">University Jean-François Champollion</a> in Albi, France.
</p></div>
<address><a href="Jean-Gui/" rel='foaf-home'><img src="/Icons/house.gif" alt="homepage" /></a> <a href="mailto:jean-gui@w3.org"><img src="/Icons/envelope.gif" alt="email" /> jean-gui@w3.org</a></address>
</div>
<hr />
<h2><a name="TechnologyandSociety" id="TechnologyandSociety">Technology and Society</a></h2>
<div class='foaf-person'><h3>Thomas Roessler, T&S Domain Leader</h3>
<img src="http://www.w3.org/2006/05/u/e68816d0babf-sm.jpg" alt="" class='foaf-depiction' />
<div><p>Thomas Roessler joined the W3C Team in November 2004 to work on
security, privacy, and European policy issues. He currently serves as Technology and Society Domain Leader.</p>
<p>Prior to
joining W3C, Thomas worked at the University of Bonn on numerics of
partial differential equations, and collected programming, systems
administration and computer forensics experience. He served as the lead
maintainer of the free software mail user agent <a href="http://www.mutt.org/">mutt</a>. Thomas
has published and given talks on topics including anonymization
services, legal questions of digital signatures, and online privacy. He
holds a degree in mathematics.</p>
<p>Thomas served as the Technical Liaison to the ICANN Board in 2009, and is chair of the Board of the <a href="http://www.webfoundation.org/about/usboard.html">World Wide Web Foundation</a> (Delaware, US).</p></div>
<address><a href="mailto:tlr@w3.org"><img src="/Icons/envelope.gif" alt="email" /> tlr@w3.org</a></address>
</div>
<div class='foaf-person'><h3><a name="phila" id="phila" class='foaf-name'><span class='foaf-given'>Phil</span> <span class='foaf-family'>Archer</span></a></h3>
<img src="http://philarcher.org/images/philarcher56.jpg" alt="" class='foaf-depiction' />
<div><p>Phil Archer originally joined the team to work on the <a href="http://www.w3.org/Mobile/">Mobile Web Initiative</a> in February 2009, specifically to work on developing and delivering <a href="http://www.w3.org/Mobile/training/">training</a> in this area. Before joining the team he'd been a participant in the <a href="http://www.w3.org/2005/MWI/BPWG/">Mobile Web Best Practices</a> working group (joining at its inception in June 2005) with a particular interest in the
<a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/mobileOK/">mobileOK scheme</a>. Phil was an editor of, or acknowledged contributor to, 6 of the documents created by the MWBP Working Group.</p>
<p>Separately from his W3C team remit, Phil has also been involved with the Semantic Web activity as chair of the <a href="http://www.w3.org/2007/powder/">POWDER working group</a>. As part of this role he co-edited all documents (except the Primer) and created one of the two <a href="http://i-sieve.com/powderprocessor/">reference implementations</a>. It was this work that lead Phil to focus on the area of linked data and, eventually, to take up his current role in the <a href="/TandS/">Technology and Society</a> domain working on <a href="/egov/">eGovernment</a> projects.</p>
<p>Phil Archer maintains an active online presence through his <a href="http://philarcher.org/">personal Web site</a>.</p></div>
<address><a href="mailto:phila@w3.org"><img src="/Icons/envelope.gif" alt="email" /> phila@w3.org</a></address>
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<div class='foaf-person'><h3><a name="carine" id="carine" class='foaf-name'><span class='foaf-given'>Carine</span> <span class='foaf-family'>Bournez</span></a></h3>
<img src="http://www.w3.org/People/carine/carine.jpg" alt="" class='foaf-depiction' />
<div><p>Carine joined the Sophia Antipolis W3C team in December 2001 as XML engineer, in the Jigsaw activity.
She holds an engineer degree and a PhD in Computer Science. Her research area was distributed artificial intelligence and multi-agent systems.<br />
Since 2002, she has been working in the Web Services Activity and the XML Activity as staff contact (XML Protocol, WS Choreo WG, SWS IG, SAWSDL WG, XBC and EXI WGs, XSL WG) and in the EU-funded project on Web Services and Semantics (WS2).</p>
</div>
<address><a href="carine/" rel='foaf-home'><img src="/Icons/house.gif" alt="homepage" /></a> <a href="mailto:carine@w3.org"><img src="/Icons/envelope.gif" alt="email" /> carine@w3.org</a></address>
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<div class='foaf-person'><h3><a name="npdoty" id="npdoty" class='foaf-name'><span class='foaf-given'>Nick</span> <span class='foaf-family'>Doty</span></a>, Privacy</h3>
<img src="http://npdoty.name/images/headshot-tiny.jpg" alt="" class='foaf-depiction' />
<div><p><a href="http://npdoty.name">Nick Doty</a> works on privacy in Web standards, acting as the team contact for the <a href="http://www.w3.org/2011/tracking-protection">Tracking Protection Working Group</a> and Privacy Interest Group.</p>
<p>Nick is also a graduate student at the UC Berkeley, <a href="http://ischool.berkeley.edu">School of Information</a> where he occasionally teaches the <a href="http://courses.ischool.berkeley.edu/i290-iol/f10/">Information Organization Lab</a> and does research on Internet privacy.</p></div>
<address><a href="mailto:npdoty@w3.org"><img src="/Icons/envelope.gif" alt="email" /> npdoty@w3.org</a></address>
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<div class='foaf-person'><h3><a name="hhalpin" id="hhalpin" class='foaf-name'><span class='foaf-given'>Harry</span> <span class='foaf-family'>Halpin</span></a></h3>
<img src="http://www.ibiblio.org/hhalpin/homepage/w3cphoto72.jpg" alt="" class='foaf-depiction' />
<div><p><a href="http://www.ibiblio.org/hhalpin">Harry Halpin</a> is a W3C Fellow funded by <a href="http://www.eduserv.org.uk/">Eduserv</a>, working as staff contact for the <a href="http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/rdb2rdf/">RDB2RDF Working Group</a> and co-chairing the <a href="http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/socialweb/">Social Web Incubator Group</a>. Previously he was Chair of the <a href="http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/grddl-wg/">GRDDL Working Group</a> that focused on combining microformats and XML with the Semantic Web. Guiding his work at the W3C is his commitment to keeping the Web an universal space of information for the development of collective intelligence. He enjoys working with diverse communities to make their data accessible on the Web. </p>
<p> He received his Ph.D. in Informatics from the <a href="http://www.inf.ed.ac.uk/">University of Edinburgh</a> under <a href="http://www.ltg.ed.ac.uk/~ht/">Henry Thompson</a> and <a href="http://www.philosophy.ed.ac.uk/people/full-academic/andy-clark.htm">Andy Clark</a>, with a thesis on theories of reference on the Web combining information retrieval and knowledge representation. Previously, he worked on the intersection of philosophy and literature with computing at Duke University and held a DAAD scholarship to Freie Universität Berlin. He enjoys studying Web phenomena empirically, such as the development of consensus in collaborative tagging.</p> </div>
<address><a href="mailto:hhalpin@w3.org"><img src="/Icons/envelope.gif" alt="email" /> hhalpin@w3.org</a></address>
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<div class='foaf-person'><h3><a name="sandro" id="sandro" class='foaf-name'><span class='foaf-given'>Sandro</span> <span class='foaf-family'>Hawke</span></a>, Software Engineer/Research Scientist</h3>
<img src="http://www.w3.org/People/Sandro/sandro-icon" alt="" class='foaf-depiction' />
<div><a href="/People/Sandro/">Sandro Hawke</a> is a Software Developer and Systems Architect at <a href="http://www.w3.org/">W3C</a> and a Research Scientist at MIT's <a href="http://dig.csail.mit.edu">Decentralized Information Group</a>. He leads the W3C's <a href="http://www.w3.org/2007/eGov/IG/wiki/Main_Page">eGovernment</a> activity and is staff contact for the <a href="http://www.w3.org/2005/rules">RIF</a>, <a href="http://www.w3.org/2007/OWL/">OWL</a>, and <a href="http://www.w3.org/2009/sparql/wiki/Main_Page">SPARQL</a> Working Groups. A member of the W3C Semantic Web staff since 2000, Sandro's professional focus is on developing global-scale decentralized systems using ideas from both Web Architecture and Knowledge Representation. He occasionally blogs at <a href="http://decentralyze.com">decentralyze.com</a>.
</div>
<address><a href="Sandro" rel='foaf-home'><img src="/Icons/house.gif" alt="homepage" /></a> <a href="mailto:sandro@w3.org"><img src="/Icons/envelope.gif" alt="email" /> sandro@w3.org</a></address>
</div>
<div class='foaf-person'><h3><a name="ivan" id="ivan" class='foaf-name'><span class='foaf-given'>Ivan</span> <span class='foaf-family'>Herman</span></a>, Semantic Web Activity Lead</h3>
<img src="/People/ih" alt="" class='foaf-depiction' />
<div><p>
Ivan graduated as mathematician at the <a href="http://teo.elte.hu/fs/">Eötvös Loránd University of Budapest</a>, Hungary, in 1979. After a brief scholarship at the Université Paris VI he joined the Hungarian research institute in computer science (<a href="http://www.sztaki.hu"><abbr lang="hu" title="Számítástechnikai és Automatizálási Kutatóintézet">SZTAKI</abbr></a>) where he worked for 6 years. He left Hungary in 1986 and, after a few years in industry, he joined the <a href="http://www.cwi.nl">Centre for Mathematics and Computer Sciences (<abbr lang="nl" title="Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica">CWI</abbr>)</a> in Amsterdam where he has held a tenure position since 1988. He received a PhD degree in Computer Science in 1990 at the <a href="http://www.leidenuniv.nl/">Leiden University</a>, in the Netherlands.
Ivan joined the W3C team as Head of <a href="/Consortium/Offices">Offices</a> in January 2001 while maintaining his position at CWI. He served as Head of Offices until June 2006, when he was asked to take the <a href="/2001/sw/">Semantic Web Activity</a> Lead position.
</p>
<p>
Before joining W3C Ivan worked in quite different areas (distributed and dataflow programming, language design, system programming), but he spend most of his research years in computer graphics and visualization. He also participated in various graphics related ISO standardization activities and software developments.
He was the co-chair of the <a href="http://www9.org">9th World Wide Web Conference</a>, in Amsterdam, May 2000.
He is member of <a href="http://www.iw3c2.org"><abbr title="International World Wide Web Conference Committee">IW3C2</abbr></a>, the committee responsible for the World Wide Web Conference series, as well as of <a href="http://www.iswsa.org/"><abbr title="Semantic Web Science Association">SWSA</abbr></a>, the committee responsible for the International Semantic Web Conference series.</p>
<p>
His <a href="http://homepages.cwi.nl/~ivan">home page at <abbr lang="nl" title="Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica">CWI</abbr></a> contains a list
of his publications and details of the various projects he participated in.
You can also look at his
<a href="http://www.w3.org/People/Ivan/">home page</a>
or his <a href="http://www.ivan-herman.net">personal blog</a>.</p>
</div>
<address><a href="Ivan/" rel='foaf-home'><img src="/Icons/house.gif" alt="homepage" /></a> <a href="mailto:ivan@w3.org"><img src="/Icons/envelope.gif" alt="email" /> ivan@w3.org</a></address>
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<div class='foaf-person'><h3><a name="ylafon" id="ylafon" class='foaf-name'><span class='foaf-given'>Yves</span> <span class='foaf-family'>Lafon</span></a>, Web Services Activity Lead</h3>
<img src="/People/Yves.jpg" alt="" class='foaf-depiction' />
<div><p><a href="Lafon">Yves Lafon</a> studied Mathematics and computer
science at ENSEEIHT in Toulouse, France, and at Ecole Polytechnique
de Montreal in Montreal, Canada. His field of study was signal
recognition and processing. He discovered Internet Relay Chat and
the Web in Montreal in 1993 and has been making robots and <a href=
"http://www.netsurf.org/fortress/">games</a> for both. He joined
the W3C in October 1995 to work on W3C's experimental browser,
<a href="../Arena/">Arena</a>. Then he worked on <a href="../Jigsaw/">Jigsaw</a>, W3C's Java-based server, on HTTP/1.1 and started the work on SOAP 1.2.</p>
<p>Yves is now the <a href="../2002/ws/">Web Services</a> Activity leader, <a href="http://tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/">HTTPbis</a> editor and the <a href="../2001/tag/">TAG</a> Team Contact.</p></div>
<address><a href="Lafon" rel='foaf-home'><img src="/Icons/house.gif" alt="homepage" /></a> <a href="mailto:ylafon@w3.org"><img src="/Icons/envelope.gif" alt="email" /> ylafon@w3.org</a></address>
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<div class='foaf-person'><h3><a name="eric" id="eric" class='foaf-name'><span class='foaf-given'>Eric</span> <span class='foaf-family'>Prud'hommeaux</span></a>, Sanitation Engineer</h3>
<div><p>Eric joined W3C again in February 1998 to provide system support and
manage tool programming. He currently works on
<a href="http://www.w3.org/RDF/">RDF</a> and XML protocols.His primary
goal is to see that information be easily and logically accessible.</p>
<p>Prior to joining W3C full-time, Eric worked as a contract
programmer for various organizations, including W3C, where he
worked on <a href="../Library">libwww</a> and the client
applications, a <a href="../Protocols/PEP/PEPmodel">PEP model
library</a>, and several system-related projects.</p>
<p>Eric has a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from
the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and is still baffled
by the futility of a college education in determining one's fate.</p></div>
<address><a href="Eric" rel='foaf-home'><img src="/Icons/house.gif" alt="homepage" /></a> <a href="mailto:eric@w3.org"><img src="/Icons/envelope.gif" alt="email" /> eric@w3.org</a></address>
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<div class='foaf-person'><h3><a name="dsr" id="dsr" class='foaf-name'><span class='foaf-given'>Dave</span> <span class='foaf-family'>Raggett</span></a></h3>
<img src="/People/dsr" alt="" class='foaf-depiction' />
<div><p>Dave is the W3C Staff contact for the <a href="http://www.w3.org/2009/dap/">Device APIs Working Group</a> and the <a href="http://www.w3.org/2011/mbui/">Model-Based UI Working Group</a>. He has been closely involved with the development of Web standards since 1992, contributing to work on HTML, HTTP, MathML, XForms, voice and multimodal interaction, ubiquitous web applications, financial data, privacy and identity. Dave is currently involved in two European FP7 research projects: webinos and Serenoa, and before that PrimeLife. He has a special interest in the <a href="http://www.w3.org/2010/Talks/0123-dsr-sofsem.pdf">Web of Things</a>. In addition to work on standards, Dave is a keen programmer, and has developed experimental web browsers (e.g. Arena), a plugin for rendering math from natural language (EzMath), a tool for cleaning up HTML (Tidy), a web page library for HTML slide presentations (Slidy), a Firefox add-on for enhanced privacy (Privacy Dashboard), and most recently, work on real-time browser-based multi-user editing of HTML and XML. He was educated in England and obtained his doctorate from the University of Oxford, and is a visiting professor at the University of the West of England. For more information see <a href="Raggett">Dave's home page</a>.</p>
<br style="clear:both"/></div>
<address><a href="Raggett" rel='foaf-home'><img src="/Icons/house.gif" alt="homepage" /></a> <a href="mailto:dsr@w3.org"><img src="/Icons/envelope.gif" alt="email" /> dsr@w3.org</a></address>
</div>
<div class='foaf-person'><h3><a name="wseltzer" id="wseltzer" class='foaf-name'><span class='foaf-given'>Wendy</span> <span class='foaf-family'>Seltzer</span></a></h3>
<img src="http://w3.org/People/wseltzer/wseltzer-sm.jpg" alt="" class='foaf-depiction' />
<div></div>
<address><a href="mailto:wseltzer@w3.org"><img src="/Icons/envelope.gif" alt="email" /> wseltzer@w3.org</a></address>
</div>
<div class='foaf-person'><h3><a name="rigo" id="rigo" class='foaf-name'><span class='foaf-given'>Rigo</span> <span class='foaf-family'>Wenning</span></a>, Staff Counsel</h3>
<img src="/People/Rigo/rigo2.jpg" alt="" class='foaf-depiction' />
<div>Rigo Wenning joined W3C in 1999 with a focus on privacy and digital
signatures. He is the <a href="http://www.w3.org/Privacy/">Privacy</a> Activity Lead and has taken over responsibility as a legal counsel to W3C. Rigo studied law in Germany and France and holds a german law degree. Before joining W3C Rigo was a researcher at the <a href="http://rechtsinformatik.jura.uni-sb.de/en/institute/index.html">Institute of Law and Informatics</a>. He was involved in the <a href="http://www.jura.uni-sb.de/">first german law portal</a> as early as 1994. </div>
<address><a href="Rigo/Overview.html" rel='foaf-home'><img src="/Icons/house.gif" alt="homepage" /></a> <a href="mailto:rigo@w3.org"><img src="/Icons/envelope.gif" alt="email" /> rigo@w3.org</a></address>
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<h2><a name="UbiquitousWeb" id="UbiquitousWeb">Ubiquitous Web</a></h2>
<div class='foaf-person'><h3>Philipp Hoschka, Deputy Director for Europe; Ubiquitous Web Domain Leader</h3>
<img src="http://www.w3.org/2006/05/u/c734aea52c64-sm.jpg" alt="" class='foaf-depiction' />
<div><p><a href="http://www.w3.org/People/hoschka/">Philipp Hoschka</a> is a Deputy Director of the W3C. His main interest is bringing the benefits of Web
technology to mobile and other non-PC devices. Since 2006, he is leading <a
href="http://www.w3.org/UbiWeb/">W3C's Ubiquitous Web Domain</a> which
includes <a href="http://www.w3.org/Mobile/">W3C's
Mobile Web Initiative</a>created by Philipp in 2005. In the past, he
pioneered work on integrating audio and video into the Web. Philipp founded,
chaired and served as editor for the Working Group that developed the <a
href="http://www.w3.org/TR/SMIL/">W3C Standard
SMIL</a> which today is an integral part of mobile phone MMS messaging.
Philipp also lead <a href="http://www.w3.org/TV/">W3C's
"Television and the Web</a>" Activity. He previously directed <a
href="http://www.w3.org/Architecture">W3C's Architecture
Domain</a>, which issues all core XML specifications from the W3C. Philipp
chaired numerous W3C workshops that explored new Web developments, such as
Workshops on <a href="http://www.w3.org/2004/09/mwi-workshop-cfp.html">the Mobile Web Initiative</a>, <a
href="http://www.w3.org/2001/01/WSWS">Web Services</a>, <a
href="http://www.w3.org/Architecture/1998/06/Workshop/">Television and the Web</a>, <a
href="http://www.w3.org/Architecture/9709_Workshop/">Push
Technology</a> and <a href="http://www.w3.org/AudioVideo/RTMW96.html">Real-Time Multimedia and the Web</a>. Philipp holds a Ph.D.
degree in Computer Science, and a Master's Degree in Computer Science from
the University of Karlsruhe, Germany.</p></div>
<address><a href="hoschka" rel='foaf-home'><img src="/Icons/house.gif" alt="homepage" /></a> <a href="mailto:ph@w3.org"><img src="/Icons/envelope.gif" alt="email" /> ph@w3.org</a></address>
</div>
<div class='foaf-person'><h3><a name="ashimura" id="ashimura" class='foaf-name'><span class='foaf-given'>Kazuyuki</span> <span class='foaf-family'>Ashimura</span></a>, MMI/Voice Activity Lead</h3>
<img src="/People/Kazuyuki/ashimura_240x320.jpg" alt="" class='foaf-depiction' />
<div>Kaz joined the W3C Team at Keio University SFC in April 2005.
Prior to joining the Team, Kaz worked for twelve years on research and development of speech and natural language processing.
He is interested in Web technologies, esp.
<a href="http://www.w3.org/Voice">Voice</a>,
<a href="http://www.w3.org/2002/mmi/">Multimodal</a>
and <a href="http://www.w3.org/2011/webtv/">Web & TV</a> technologies.
He would like to make people happy using those technologies.
Kaz holds a B.S. in Mathematics from Kyoto University.</div>
<address><a href="mailto:ashimura@w3.org"><img src="/Icons/envelope.gif" alt="email" /> ashimura@w3.org</a></address>
</div>
<div class='foaf-person'><h3><a name="boyera" id="boyera" class='foaf-name'><span class='foaf-given'>Stéphane</span> <span class='foaf-family'>Boyera</span></a></h3>
<img src="/People/sb.jpg" alt="" class='foaf-depiction' />
<div><p><a href="Boyera">Stéphane </a> is W3C Staff since 1995. Leading the W3C Device
Independence Working Group since 2001, he has been a key participant in the
development and launch of the <a href="/mobile">W3C Mobile Web Initiative</a>, managing the <a href="http://www.w3.org/2005/MWI/DDWG/">
Device Description Working Group</a> till the end of 2005. At the same time, Stéphane took also part in the management of the Voice and Multimodal Activities.
Since 2006, he is leading the W3C work on <a href="/2008/MW4D/">the Mobile Web for Social Development Interest Group.</a>
</p>
<p>
As of 1st January 2009, after participating in the Web Foundation Task Force during 2008, Stéphane joined the <a href="http://www.webfoundation.org">newly launched World Wide Web Foundation</a> as program manager for the <a href="http://www.webfoundation.org/programs/web-in-society/"> Web in Society program</a>
</p>
<p>Before joining W3C and the Web Foundation, Stéphane studied network and
telecommunications at ESSTIN, an engineering school in
Sophia-Antipolis, France. From 1991 to 1995, he worked on Artificial
Intelligence and Knowledge modeling at <a href="http://www.inria.fr/">INRIA</a>.</p>
</div>
<address><a href="Boyera" rel='foaf-home'><img src="/Icons/house.gif" alt="homepage" /></a> <a href="mailto:boyera@w3.org"><img src="/Icons/envelope.gif" alt="email" /> boyera@w3.org</a></address>
</div>
<div class='foaf-person'><h3><a name="mcf" id="mcf" class='foaf-name'><span class='foaf-given'>Marie-Claire</span> <span class='foaf-family'>Forgue</span></a>, W3C Training Manager</h3>
<img src="/2007/04/mcf.png" alt="" class='foaf-depiction' />
<div><p>Marie-Claire Forgue joined W3C in January 2001,
as Head of W3C European Communications. Recently (April 2011), Marie-Claire was appointed Head of W3C training. She continues to lead the dissemination activities of European projects (such as <a href="http://www.openmediaweb.eu">OMWeb</a> and <a href="http://www.mobiwebapp.eu">MobiWebApp</a>). <br />
Marie-Claire received a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from the <a href="http://www.unice.fr">University of Nice</a> and <a href="http://www-sop.inria.fr">INRIA</a>, France. After a year as a postdoctoral fellow at <a href="http://www.dgp.toronto.edu">the Dynamic Graphics Project Lab</a> at the University of Toronto, Canada, she worked in <a href="http://www.ntt.co.jp/index_e.html">NTT</a>'s Human Interface Lab, Japan, for two years. Her research interests were focused on illumination algorithms and scene modeling.</p> <p>
After that, she studied <a href="http://www.vfs.com">filmmaking</a> in Vancouver, Canada. She has directed several short films and documentaries, and got interested in interactive multimedia back in 1993. </p>
</div>
<address><a href="/People/mcf/Overview.html" rel='foaf-home'><img src="/Icons/house.gif" alt="homepage" /></a> <a href="mailto:mcf@w3.org"><img src="/Icons/envelope.gif" alt="email" /> mcf@w3.org</a></address>
</div>
<div class='foaf-person'><h3>Dominique Hazaël-Massieux, Mobile Web Initiative Activity Lead</h3>
<img src="http://www.w3.org/People/Dom/portrait-s" alt="" class='foaf-depiction' />
<div><p><a href="/People/Dom/">Dominique</a> is the Activity Lead of the <a href="/Mobile/">Mobile Web Initiative</a>, serves as staff contact in the <a href="http://www.w3.org/2009/dap/">Device APIs and Policy Working Group</a>, and develops tools and applications as part of the W3C <a href="/blog/systeam">Systems Team</a>.</p>
<p>He joined initially W3Cs Communication and Systems Team as a member of the Webmaster Team in October 2000; after having joined then lead the <a href="/QA/Activity">QA Activity</a> until September 2005, Dom took part to the <a href="/2005/MWI/">Mobile Web Initiative</a> as Staff Contact for the <a href="/2005/MWI/BPWG/">Best Practices Working Group</a> and later as co-Chair of the <a href="/2005/MWI/Tests/">Mobile Web Test Suites Working Group</a>.</p>
<p>Dominique holds an engineering degree from the Grande Ecole <a href="http://www.ecp.fr">École Centrale Paris</a>.</p></div>
<address><a href="Dom/" rel='foaf-home'><img src="/Icons/house.gif" alt="homepage" /></a> <a href="mailto:dom@w3.org"><img src="/Icons/envelope.gif" alt="email" /> dom@w3.org</a></address>
</div>
<div class='foaf-person'><h3><a name="shinji" id="shinji" class='foaf-name'><span class='foaf-given'>Shinji</span> <span class='foaf-family'>Ishii</span></a></h3>
<div>Shinji joined W3C team in November 2011 as W3C/MIT Fellow from NTT Corp in Japan.
He is working for the making web signage.
And also, he works at NTT Cyber Solutions Laboratories.</div>
<address><a href="mailto:shinji@w3.org"><img src="/Icons/envelope.gif" alt="email" /> shinji@w3.org</a></address>
</div>
<div class='foaf-person'><h3><a name="liam" id="liam" class='foaf-name'><span class='foaf-given'>Liam</span> <span class='foaf-family'>Quin</span></a>, XML Activity Lead</h3>
<img src="/People/Quin/Liam10-56x72.jpeg" alt="" class='foaf-depiction' />
<div><p><a href="http://www.w3.org/People/Quin">Liam</a> joined the W3C in 2000; he's been working with text-based markup and digital typography since <i>nroff</i> days (1981) and with SGML since 1987. He worked for Yuri Rubinsky at SoftQuad Inc. in Toronto, where he was involved in the development of SoftQuad's HoTMetaL, the first commercial HTML editor for the Web, and also with SoftQuad Panorama, a browser plugin to display SGML; this in turn demonstrated a need to standardise the use of SGML on the Web, and Liam was involved in the development of the XML specification.</p>
<p>Liam has been involved in free software since 1983, including <a href="http://www.holoweb.net/~liam/lqtext/">lq-text</a>, a text retrieval package for Unix, the <a href="http://www.gnome.org/"><small>GNOME</small></a> and <a href="http://www.gimp.org/"><small>GIMP</small></a> projects, a collection of <a href="http://fromoldbooks.org/">royalty-free pictures from old books</a>, and uses and contributes to <a href="http://www.mandriva.com/">Mandriva</a> Linux, and many other open source and free projects.</p>
<p>At the W3C today, Liam is XML Activity Lead and W3C technical participant for the XML Query and XSL (XSL-FO) Working Groups, and alternate contact for several other Working Groups.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.holoweb.net/~liam/">Liam's personal home page</a></p></div>
<address><a href="Quin/" rel='foaf-home'><img src="/Icons/house.gif" alt="homepage" /></a> <a href="mailto:liam@w3.org"><img src="/Icons/envelope.gif" alt="email" /> liam@w3.org</a></address>
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<div class='foaf-person'><h3>Dave Raggett</h3>
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<div><p>Dave is the W3C Staff contact for the <a href="http://www.w3.org/2009/dap/">Device APIs Working Group</a> and the <a href="http://www.w3.org/2011/mbui/">Model-Based UI Working Group</a>. He has been closely involved with the development of Web standards since 1992, contributing to work on HTML, HTTP, MathML, XForms, voice and multimodal interaction, ubiquitous web applications, financial data, privacy and identity. Dave is currently involved in two European FP7 research projects: webinos and Serenoa, and before that PrimeLife. He has a special interest in the <a href="http://www.w3.org/2010/Talks/0123-dsr-sofsem.pdf">Web of Things</a>. In addition to work on standards, Dave is a keen programmer, and has developed experimental web browsers (e.g. Arena), a plugin for rendering math from natural language (EzMath), a tool for cleaning up HTML (Tidy), a web page library for HTML slide presentations (Slidy), a Firefox add-on for enhanced privacy (Privacy Dashboard), and most recently, work on real-time browser-based multi-user editing of HTML and XML. He was educated in England and obtained his doctorate from the University of Oxford, and is a visiting professor at the University of the West of England. For more information see <a href="Raggett">Dave's home page</a>.</p>
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<address><a href="Raggett" rel='foaf-home'><img src="/Icons/house.gif" alt="homepage" /></a> <a href="mailto:dsr@w3.org"><img src="/Icons/envelope.gif" alt="email" /> dsr@w3.org</a></address>
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<div class='foaf-person'><h3><a name="mdw" id="mdw" class='foaf-name'><span class='foaf-given'>Matt</span> <span class='foaf-family'>Womer</span></a></h3>
<div><p>Matt is the Ubiquitous Web Activity Lead and serves as the staff contact for the <a href="http://www.w3.org/2007/uwa/wiki/">Ubiquitous Web Applications</a>, <a href="http://www.w3.org/2008/geolocation/">Geolocation</a>, and <a href="http://www.w3.org/Voice/">Voice Browser</a> Working Groups.</p>
<p>Before joining the W3C in April 2007, Matt worked on mobile Web applications and standards at the research and development branch of a large European mobile operator.</p>
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Prior to that Matt worked at a number of Boston area startup companies in the areas of speech recognition, VoIP, and the Web on mobile devices.
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<address><a href="http://www.w3.org/People/mdw/" rel='foaf-home'><img src="/Icons/house.gif" alt="homepage" /></a> <a href="mailto:mdw@w3.org"><img src="/Icons/envelope.gif" alt="email" /> mdw@w3.org</a></address>
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<div class='foaf-person'><h3>Judy Brewer, WAI Domain Leader</h3>
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<div><p><a href="Brewer/">Judy Brewer</a> joined W3C in September
1997 as Director of the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI)
International Program Office. She is Domain Leader for WAI, and coordinates five areas of work with respect to Web accessibility: ensuring that W3C technologies support accessibility; developing guidelines for Web content, browsers, and authoring tools; improving tools for evaluation and repair of Web sites; conducting education and outreach; and coordinating with research and development that can affect future Web accessibility.</p>
<p>Judy is W3C's chief liaison on accessibility policy and standardization internationally, promoting awareness and implementation of Web accessibility, and ensuring effective dialog among industry, the disability community, accessibility researchers, and government on the development of consensus-based accessibility solutions.</p>
<p>Prior to joining W3C, Judy was Project Director for the Massachusetts Assistive Technology Partnership, a U.S. federally-funded project promoting access to assistive technology for people with disabilities. She worked on several national initiatives to increase access to mainstream technology for people with disabilities and to improve dialog between industry and the disability community. Judy has a background in applied linguistics, education, technical writing, management and disability advocacy.</p></div>
<address><a href="Brewer" rel='foaf-home'><img src="/Icons/house.gif" alt="homepage" /></a> <a href="mailto:jbrewer@w3.org"><img src="/Icons/envelope.gif" alt="email" /> jbrewer@w3.org</a></address>
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<div class='foaf-person'><h3><a name="shadi" id="shadi" class='foaf-name'><span class='foaf-given'>Shadi</span> <span class='foaf-family'>Abou-Zahra</span></a>, WAI International Program Office Activity Lead</h3>
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<div><p>Shadi Abou-Zahra works with the W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (<acronym>WAI</acronym>) as Activity Lead of the <acronym>WAI</acronym> International Program Office, which includes groups that are responsible for education and outreach, coordination with research, general discussion on web accessibility, coordination with the <acronym>WAI</acronym> Technical Activity, and <acronym>WAI</acronym> liaisons with other organizations including standards organizations and disability groups. Shadi coordinates <acronym>WAI</acronym> outreach in Europe, accessibility evaluation techniques, and international standards promotion and harmonization activities. He chairs the <acronym>W3C</acronym>/<acronym>WAI</acronym> Evaluation and Repair Tools Working Group (ERT WG), is the staff contact of the <acronym>W3C</acronym>/<acronym>WAI</acronym> Research and Development Working Group (<acronym>RDWG</acronym>), and participates in the <acronym>W3C</acronym>/<acronym>WAI</acronym> Education and Outreach Working Group (<acronym>EOWG</acronym>). <br />See <acronym>W3C</acronym> page for <a href="http://www.w3.org/People/shadi/">Shadi Abou-Zahra</a>.</p></div>
<address><a href="shadi/" rel='foaf-home'><img src="/Icons/house.gif" alt="homepage" /></a> <a href="mailto:shadi@w3.org"><img src="/Icons/envelope.gif" alt="email" /> shadi@w3.org</a></address>
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<div class='foaf-person'><h3><a name="cooper" id="cooper" class='foaf-name'><span class='foaf-given'>Michael</span> <span class='foaf-family'>Cooper</span></a>, Web Accessibility Specialist</h3>
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<div>Michael joined the <abbr title="World Wide Web Consortium">W3C</abbr> in June 2006 as a Web Accessibility Specialist with the <a href="http://www.w3.org/WAI/">Web Accessibility Initiative</a>. Michael is the Team Contact for the <a href="http://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/">Web Content Accessibility Guidelines</a> Working Group, which develops authoring guidelines and techniques to create accessible content; and for the <a href="http://www.w3.org/WAI/PF/">Protocols and Formats</a> Working Group, which supports the <abbr title="World Wide Web Consortium">W3C</abbr> to make new Web technologies accessible and develops accessibility practices. He has been involved in <abbr title="World Wide Web Consortium">W3C</abbr> standards for many years in the context of his work at <a href="http://www.watchfire.com/">Watchfire</a> and <a href="http://www.cast.org/">CAST</a> developing accessibility evaluation software.</div>
<address><a href="cooper" rel='foaf-home'><img src="/Icons/house.gif" alt="homepage" /></a> <a href="mailto:cooper@w3.org"><img src="/Icons/envelope.gif" alt="email" /> cooper@w3.org</a></address>
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<div class='foaf-person'><h3><a name="shawn" id="shawn" class='foaf-name'><span class='foaf-given'>Shawn</span> <span class='foaf-family'>Henry</span></a>, WAI Outreach Coordinator</h3>
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<div><p><a href="Shawn/">Shawn Henry</a> joined W3C in February 2003 as Web Accessibility Initiative (<a href="/WAI/">WAI</a>) Outreach Coordinator to coordinate W3C's worldwide education and outreach activities promoting Web accessibility for people with disabilities. Within W3C, Shawn is Chair of the WAI Education and Outreach Working Group (<a href="/WAI/EO/">EOWG</a>), helps coordinate the WAI Interest Group (<a href="/WAI/IG/">WAI IG</a>), and works with the WAI Steering Council.</p>
<p>Prior to joining W3C, Shawn worked as a consultant with international standards bodies, research centers, government agencies, non-profit organizations, education providers, and Fortune 500 companies to develop and implement strategies to optimize design for usability and accessibility. <a href="http://www.uiaccess.com/profile.html">More About Shawn</a>.</p></div>
<address><a href="Shawn" rel='foaf-home'><img src="/Icons/house.gif" alt="homepage" /></a> <a href="mailto:shawn@w3.org"><img src="/Icons/envelope.gif" alt="email" /> shawn@w3.org</a></address>
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<div class='foaf-person'><h3><a name="jeanne" id="jeanne" class='foaf-name'><span class='foaf-given'>Jeanne F</span> <span class='foaf-family'>Spellman</span></a>, Web Accessibility Engineer</h3>
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<div><p>Jeanne Spellman joined the W3C in 2008 as Web Accessibility Engineer. She is the team contact for the User Agent Accessibility Guidelines Working Group and the Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines Working Group. Jeanne also contributes to the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines Working Group.</p>
<p>Prior to joining W3C, Jeanne has worked as an independent web developer and accessibility consultant. Jeanne has developed accessible web sites and has evaluated web pages for accessibility in a variety of technologies including HTML, CSS, Flash, Flex, PDF and AJAX. Jeanne has worked with major corporations to develop and train designers, developers, quality assurance engineers and project managers in accessibility techniques. </p></div>
<address><a href="jeanne" rel='foaf-home'><img src="/Icons/house.gif" alt="homepage" /></a> <a href="mailto:jeanne@w3.org"><img src="/Icons/envelope.gif" alt="email" /> jeanne@w3.org</a></address>
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