Chris, previously at the Computer Graphics Unit in the UK, joined the Consortium in April 1996. He is Graphics Activity lead, chairs the SVG Working Group and is a member of the TAG. His interests are 2D graphics - both vector and raster - stylesheets, XML, and multilingual typography. Chris is based at INRIA/Sophia-Antipolis, France. He holds a BSc in Biochemistry, an MSc in Biological Computation and a postgraduate diploma in Bioinformatics, and has been working with Web Graphics since 1993.