A senior scientist at Inria, his career has been shared between research and industry. He started as a research scientist in differential games and digital image processing.

As Director of Development and Industrial Relations at Inria, he launched the European host of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and then moved to MIT as W3C Chairman from 1996 to 2001.

He has been Vice President of Research and Development of the software company ILOG, until after its acquisition by IBM, and then became Director of Development Productivity & Innovation in the IBM Enterprise Transformation division.

In 2014, he returned to Inria in the Transfer & Innovation division. He has served on the ICANN Board and is currently a member of the governing board of the European Institute of Innovation & Technology (EIT) and a member of the Coordination Council of the NETmundial Initiative./p>