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Dr. Andrew Glass is Senior Program Manager in the Experiences and Devices Group at Microsoft. Since joining Microsoft in 2008 he has specialized in font rendering, keyboards, and input-related user experiences. He holds M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from the [University of Washington](/org/university-of-washington) in Sanskrit and Buddhist Studies. He is co-editor of “A Dictionary of Gāndhārī” (gandhari.org, 2002–) and author of “Four Gāndhārī Saṃyuktāgama Sūtras” (University of Washington Press, 2007). His contributions to Unicode include proposals for the Kharoṣṭhī and Brāhmī scripts, and Egyptian Hieroglyph Format Controls. Andrew is the author and maintainer of Microsoft's Universal Shaping Engine specification. Prior to joining Microsoft, he taught at the [University of Washington](/org/university-of-washington), University of Leiden, and Bukkyō University in Japan.

Andrew Glass

Roozbeh Pournader is a Technical Director at the [Unicode Consortium](/org/unicode-consortium). Roozbeh was previously an Internationalization Lead at WhatsApp Inc. from February 2018 to December 2020. Prior to that, they were an Internationalization Engineer at Google from September 2011 to February 2018. Roozbeh has also worked as an Internationalization Engineer at HighTech Passport, Ltd. from February 2008 to September 2011, and as Chief Technology Officer and Deputy Chairman at Sharif FarsiWeb, Inc. from September 2004 to September 2007. From January 2003 to December 2005, they were the Head of Research and Development at the Computing Center of Sharif University of Technology. Roozbeh has also been a member of the Technical Council at the Working Group for Persian Language and Script from January 2002 to December 2007.

Roozbeh Pournader has a degree in computer software engineering from Sharif University of Technology, as well as degrees in mathematics and physics from Allameh Helli High School and Mofid High School.

They work with Toral Cowieson - Executive Director & COO, Jennifer Daniel - Emoji Subcommittee Chair, and Deborah Anderson - Technical Director. Roozbeh Pournader reports to Mark Davis, President, CLDR-TC Chair, & Emoji Subcommittee Chair.

Roozbeh Pournader

Anne is an experienced legal executive with 30 years in private practice and in-house legal roles. From 2013-2019 she served as vice president for global intellectual property for [Swarovski](/org/swarovski), a global fashion jewelry brand based in central Europe. Before that she held various positions over a decade in the Intel legal department including vice president for global public policy, vice president for global sales & marketing legal affairs, and director of trademarks & brands.  Early in her career she was an associate at [Fenwick & West](/org/fenwick-west) and director of trademarks at Sun Microsystems. Since retiring from [Swarovski](/org/swarovski), Anne has been a consultant and has served as a World Intellectual Property Organization domain name panelist under the Uniform Dispute Resolution Policy of ICANN.

Anne has long been a leader in the global IP bar. She served on the Board of Directors of the International Trademark Association for nearly a decade and served as the Association’s president in 2005.  From 2006 to 2008 she served as chair of the Coalition for Intellectual Property Rights.  She was one of the drafters of the U.S. Trademark Dilution Revision Act of 2006. 

Anne has also long been a supporter of the [Unicode Consortium](/org/unicode-consortium) and its work, providing pro bono IP counsel since the mid ‘90s.  She is also a proud Gold Sponsor of the Comma (U+002C) and the Trademark Symbol (U+2122).

Anne Gundelfinger

Craig Cummings has been working in the field of software globalization for over 25 years. Before his recent role at [VMware](/org/vmware), Craig worked with [Informatica](/org/informatica) on big data internationalization and also worked at [Zynga](/org/zynga) making games in a variety of languages including Arabic. Before that, at Yahoo! Inc., he helped drive corporate technical strategy for internationalization with a particular focus on Middle Eastern markets. Prior to that, Craig was with Oracle's Tools and Applications globalization teams where he worked closely with Sun's internationalization team to shape some of the pluggable locale, resource bundle, font, and supplementary character support in Java.

Craig Cummings

Dr. Ken Lunde worked at Adobe from 1991 until 2019, specializing in CJKV Type Development, meaning that he developed East Asian fonts, along with the specifications on which they are based. He architected and developed the Adobe-branded “Source Han” and Google-branded “Noto CJK” open source Pan-CJK typeface families that were released in 2014, 2017, and 2019, is the author of “CJKV Information Processing” Second Edition that was published by O’Reilly Media at the end of 2008, and published over 300 articles on Adobe’s CJK Type Blog. Ken holds BA, MA, and PhD degrees in linguistics from The University of Wisconsin-Madison. Ken served as Adobe’s primary representative to Unicode from 2015 until 2019, serves as the IVD Registrar, participates in the Unicode Editorial Committee, received the 2018 Unicode Bulldog Award, became a Unicode Technical Director in 2018, and became an Emoji Subcommittee Vice-Chair in 2019.

Ken Lunde

Dr. Mark Davis co-founded the Unicode project and has been the president of the [Unicode Consortium](/org/unicode-consortium) since its incorporation in 1991. He is one of the key technical contributors to the Unicode specifications. Mark founded and was responsible for the overall architecture of ICU (the premier Unicode software internationalization library), and architected the core of the Java internationalization classes. He also founded and is the chair of the Unicode CLDR project, and is a co-author of BCP 47 "Tags for Identifying Languages" (RFC 4646 and RFC 4647), used for identifying languages in all XML and HTML documents.

Mark Davis

Jennifer 8. Lee is the founder of Emojination, a grassroots group whose motto is "Emoji by The People, For the People" which played a role in passing the hijab and dumpling emojis. She is also the founder of Emojicon, a conference celebrating all things emoji.She is the co-founder and CEO of Plympton, a San Francisco-based literary studio that innovates in digital publishing. A former New York Times reporter, Jenny is a producer of “The Search for General Tso,” and and the author of the New York Times-bestselling book, The Fortune Cookie Chronicles. Jenny also serves on the boards for the Nieman Foundation, the Center for Public Integrity, the Digital Public Library of America, the Asian American Writers’ Workshop, Hacks/Hackers, as well as committees for the New York Public Library Young Lions committee, the Robert F. Kennedy journalism awards, and SXSW programming. Jenny has served as the lead judge for the Knight News Challenge, and on the launch team for Upworthy. Jenny graduated with a degree in Applied Math and Economics from Harvard, where she was vice president of The Harvard Crimson.

Jennifer Lee

Dr. Ken Whistler formerly worked at SAP in database software, implementing Unicode in database-related products and prior to that at Metaphor, Inc., where he helped design and implement the Unicode-based internationalization of the Metaphor Data Interpretation Systems. He has a BA in Chinese from [Stanford University](/org/stanford), 1972 and Ph.D. in Linguistics from the University of California, Berkeley, 1980. He pursued an early career in Sinology, learning both Japanese and Chinese in the course of studying in Japan and in Taiwan. His graduate work focused on the Native American languages of California, including an extended period of field work, archival work, and lexicography. He has developed and marketed text analysis software for linguists.

Ken Whistler

Ayman is the Group Engineering Manager of the Office Core Experiences team responsible for the shared components that Office use to build their applications, including UX, UI platform, text rendering and editing, font management and accessibility. Prior to this, Ayman managed different internationalization teams that built the globalization and localization platform for Office applications, including multilingual and machine translation features. Ayman started at Microsoft in 1990 as a software design engineer and worked on BiDirectional enabling of some of Microsoft key products including DOS, Windows, IE, Word and PowerPoint. Ayman holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering from University of Arizona.

Ayman Aldahleh

Greg Welch is retired Director of Strategic Marketing in Intel’s PC Client Group. Among his recent accomplishments has been responsibility for driving the formulation and coordination of Intel’s Ultrabook™ program. 

Greg Welch

Alolita wants to see core non-Latin languages fully represented on the Web. She believes the way forward depends on the adoption of open source and open standards like Unicode. Alolita believes the Unicode Consortium serves a vital role in language standardization and bridging the digital divide. She is principal technologist enabling open source at Amazon Web Services. Previously, she headed internationalization, localization and NLP engineering teams at [PayPal](/org/paypal), Twitter, Wikipedia. She holds multiple degrees in Computer Science and mentors women engineers and advises startups.

Alolita Sharma

Bob is the Director of Engineering for Internationalization at Google. He built and leads the globally distributed team that develops highly scalable technologies and infrastructure used throughout Google to deliver internationalized and localized products. Previously, at Netscape, he built the team that established much of the early work on internationalization for the web and browsers. Even earlier, he helped drive the initial Unix/POSIX internationalization specifications and standards via work with industry consortiums (/usr/grp, Uniforum, Unix International). Prior to Google, Bob worked for Netscape/AOL, Apple, [MIPS](/org/mips), Nippon Unisoft and UniSoft. He holds a Bachelors in Computer Science from [UC Berkeley](/org/uc-berkeley).

Bob Jung

Jennifer Daniel is the Unicode Emoji Subcommittee chair. Her first contribution to Unicode was standardizing gender inclusive representations in emoji. As a designer, author and former graphics editor at the New York Times, she now explores communication and messaging through verbal, written, auditory and visual expression at a small ad company called Google. Jennifer is a co-author and illustrator of a number of graphics books including How to Be Human, Space!, and the Origins of Almost Everything. Her work has been recognized by the Walker Art Museum, Society of Illustrators and published in the [New Yorker](/org/new-yorker), [The Washington Post](/org/the-washington-post), and Time Magazine to name a few. She has had the honor to serve as a judge for the Society of News Design, Online News Association, Society of Illustrators, American Illustration, Data is Beautiful and the Art Director's Club. She lives in Berkeley California but also on in cyberspace.

Jennifer Daniel

Brent is the Director of Product Development and General Manager for Adobe Fonts and Type at Adobe. Previously, Brent managed Adobe's mobile gaming engineering and Macromedia Flash video encoder. Brent holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Engineering from [Southern Methodist University](/org/southern-methodist-university).

Brent Getlin

Ned Holbrook is a typographic engineer at Apple, specializing in text layout and fonts. He was one of the participants in the industrywide effort to standardize variable font technology in OpenType. He previously worked on wireless networking, virtualization, digital audio, embedded graphics, and remote filesystems.

Ned Holbrook

Annemarie is a program manager on Android at Google. She holds a B.A. in linguistics and Dutch studies from the University of California, Berkeley.

Annemarie Apple

Peter Constable grew up in eastern Canada and studied Applied Math at the University of Waterloo. He went on to studies in Linguistics and to work as a linguistics teacher and researcher with SIL International, including five years working in Thailand. While in Thailand, he was exposed to challenges of supporting non-Latin scripts in software systems and digital fonts. He began working on software internationalization in 1996 and became active in work on Unicode and other i18n standards activities shortly thereafter. Since 2003, he has worked for Microsoft on various projects related to Unicode and internationalization as part of the Windows engineering team. He became a Unicode technical director in 2008, a Vice President in 2013, and later served as Treasurer.

Peter Constable

Toral Cowieson joined Unicode in 2021. More recently, she was the head of strategy and impact measurement at the Internet Society. She also held the leadership and learning portfolio, where her team set the vision and scaled online training and fellowship programs to reach NextGen leaders across 100 countries. Many of these technology and policy professionals are now contributing to the design, standards development, and governance of the core Internet infrastructure around the world.

Toral’s prior experience includes leadership roles as a board advisor and across non-profits and corporations, including Thomson Reuters.

Toral Cowieson

Steven R. Loomis

John Jenkins

Peter Edberg has worked on internationalization, text and language support at Apple since 1988. He has been Apple’s representative to Unicode for many years, and has been actively involved since 2008 with the CLDR and ICU projects. Previously he worked in [SRI International](/org/sri-international-inc)’s Bioinformation Systems Group and at a startup developing handwriting input systems for Japanese and Chinese. He holds B.S. and M.S. degrees in Engineering Science from Caltech.

Peter Edberg

Dr. Deborah Anderson joined the [Unicode Consortium](/org/unicode-consortium) as a technical director in 2007. Prior to that she was involved in the Unicode effort as an invited expert then as UC Berkeley's representative to the [Unicode Consortium](/org/unicode-consortium) since 2005. Deborah is a researcher in the Department of Linguistics at the University of California at Berkeley and runs its Script Encoding Initiative (and ran its NEH-sponsored sibling, the Universal Scripts Project). She received her Ph.D. from UCLA in Indo-European Studies.

Deborah Anderson

As VP of Globalization and Localization, Teresa drives globalization efforts across [Salesforce](/org/salesforce), including internationalization, international product management and localization. She started her career as a German linguist and has held program and operational management positions at a number of Silicon Valley companies as well as academic positions in the field of language translation. Teresa holds a MA in Translation and Interpreting from the Monterey Institute of International Studies.

Teresa Marshall

Yoshito Umaoka is a software globalization engineer at IBM. He has worked on globalization issues in various software products including Lotus Notes/Domino and WebSphere Portal Server. He currently works for ICU project as the project lead of ICU4J.

Yoshito Umaoka

David Singer is the senior engineer who coordinates standards activity for software engineering at Apple. In this role, he serves directly in both technical roles (multimedia systems at MPEG and 3GPP) and strategic roles (Advisory Committee and Advisory Board at the W3C, past Blu-ray Director), and indirectly oversees Apple’s involvement in a wide range of standards bodies and consortia, including ITU-T and ITU-R, SMPTE, and INCITS.

David Singer

Iris Orriss serves as Director of Internationalization at Facebook. She has been with Facebook since January 2013 and is passionate about eliminating the internet language and cultural barriers. Her work focuses on growing Facebook in international markets. In addition, Iris is member of the board at Translators without Borders, a nonprofit organization that provides vital information in the right language at the right time. Prior to Facebook, Iris was a director at Microsoft working on product internationalization and development process in the enterprise and language technology divisions. She is a native of Germany, speaks four languages, and was educated at [Freie Universität Berlin](/org/freie-universitat-berlin).

Iris Orriss

Tim has over 19 years of experience in the globalization industry, working in an internationalization capacity for companies like Apple, Vivendi Universal, and most recently Netflix. He has built and lead the internationalization team at Netflix for over 6 years, taking the Netflix product from a US only service to a truly global product available in 190 countries and 27 languages. Much of his work at Netflix has revolved around innovation to support globalization at scale. Tim has a software engineering background, holding a degree in Computer Science.

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