Staff
The W3C Team is composed of 52 people of mixed gender, age and race who come from 14 different regions across the globe. With a truly international flavor, the W3C Team operates primarily remotely and includes engineers and experts who work from more than 10 different countries.
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AlumniAlexandra Lacourba
Director, Global Events; Director, Financial Operations
Alexandra joined W3C in September 2002.
She oversees all aspects of event planning, including budgeting, scheduling, and coordinating with internal teams and external vendors. She also leads Membership Administration including AC representative liaison, billing, reporting and other administration. She is also in charge of other financial operations such as staff travels.
Alexandra holds a bachelor in Event Project Management from Lille University and a Master in Management from EDHEC Business School.
alex@w3.org
Alexandra's Github account
Vivien Lacourba
Director, Systems
Vivien joined W3C in May 2003 as the W3C Webmaster at the MIT/CSAIL host site in Cambridge, MA, USA.
Since September 2004 Vivien is working as a Systems & Network Engineer for W3C Europe at the ERCIM host site in Sophia-Antipolis, France.
Vivien graduated in September 2003 from the Polytech Nice Sophia engineering school (formerly known as ESSI) in Sophia-Antipolis, France.
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 University of Lyon, France.
Yves Lafon
Senior Principal Core Architecture Specialist
Yves Lafon 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 games for both. He joined the W3C in October 1995 to work on W3C's experimental browser, Arena. Then he worked on Jigsaw, W3C's Java-based server, on HTTP/1.1 and started the work on SOAP 1.2.
Yves is now the TAG Team Contact and Web Transport Team Contact.
Philippe Le Hegaret
VP, Technical Strategy
Philippe Le Hegaret is VP, Technical Strategy, responsible for the technical mission of the Consortium. Until 2025, he was also the Project Lead, responsible to drive the work necessary to achieve technical operational success. He is the current co-Chair of the W3C Process Community Group. Until 2016, he was for the former W3C Interaction Domain, which produced frontend Web technologies including HTML5, CSS3, SVG, WOFF, or Web APIs. In 2015, he helped launch the Web Platform Incubator Community Group, a lightweight venue for proposing and discussing new web platform features. In 2009, he proposed a testing project, which later grew into the web-platform-tests project. Prior to 2009, 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.
Prior to joining W3C, Philippe promoted the use of XML inside Bull in 1998, also focusing on the interaction between XML and object structures. He wrote the first version of the CSS validator in 1997.
Philippe holds a Master's Degree in Computer Science from the University of Nice (France).
An Qi (Angel) Li
Director, Chapters; Director, W3C China
Angel Li joined W3C in 2006. Since 2010, she had been devoted to setting up the fourth Host of W3C in China together with W3C Team and Beihang University. In January 2013, as the Host of W3C in China was officially launched, Angel Li was assigned as the Manager of W3C China Host, responsible for managing W3C activities in China as well as joining the global W3C management team.
Angel left W3C in June 2018 and started an adventure in the industry with Alibaba, mainly working as the representative of Alibaba in a number of domestic and international standard organizations. Her life in W3C included being the Advisory Representative and the chair of couple of groups.
In Nov 2021, Angel rejoined W3C as the Deputy Director of W3C China. From Jan 2022, she started to work with W3C community as the co-chair of W3C Governance Task Force focusing on the design and implementation of new W3C governance structure. With the Board of Directors officially seated in Oct 2022 and W3C Inc the new legal entity up and running on Jan 2023, the W3C Governance Task Force completed its mission and Angel shifted her focus to W3C Global Chapters and Evangelists Program, Diversity Fund Selection Committee and a few other projects. She was appointed as the co-chair of the W3C Advisory Board in Jan 2025 and has been working with the W3C Advisory Board on topics of interests to the community.
Zhenjie Li
Senior Administrative Specialist
Zhenjie joined W3C in May 2017 as the Administration staff and meeting planner at the Beihang host site in China ,she hold a bachelor degree in law when she graduated from Shandong university in 2010, then got an opportunity to do interdisciplinary studies of law and economics at three European universities---Bologna university, Hamburg university and Vienna university, after this one-year programme she received her master degree in Law and Economics in February 2017.
Chris Lilley
Distinguished Expert, Color, Graphics & Fonts
Chris a W3C Distinguished Expert. He was, from 2008 to 2025, a W3C Technical Director. He is also W3C Staff contact for the Audio, CSS, WebFonts and PNG Working Groups. His interests include advanced 2D graphics - both vector and raster - color management, HDR, online and multilingual typography. He is the W3C liaison to the International Color Consortium (ICC). He was for three years a member of the TAG and for many years co-chaired the Hypertext Coordination Group. He was awarded a Technical Emmy at the 73rd Tech Emmy awards in 2022, for his work on Web Fonts.
Chris 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, Chris has been working with Web technologies since 1993.
