Laurent Romary Scientific adviser to the Research Department +33 3 83 59 20 37 (Secretary office : +33 3 83 59 20 26) Laurent.Romary@inria.fr Homepage

On 1^st March 2007, Laurent Romary is appointed as scientific adviser to the Research Department for linguistic computer science and scientific and technical information.

Laurent Romary graduated from Supelec before becoming a CNRS researcher and then INRIA Research Director. Between 1997 and 2004, he directed the Language and Dialogue project at Loria, leading research activities in the fields of man-machine communication and language processing. His involvement in the standardisation of linguistic resources led him to chair the ISO's TC 37/SC 4 committee in 2002, before taking up the functions of Scientific Information Director at CNRS in 2005. He is currently Director of the Max-Planck Digital Library. Laurent Romary has been appointed as the chairman of the scientific board of TEI (Text Encoding Intitiative) in January 2008.