Laurent Romary is the Director for Scientific Information and Culture at Inria (France) and a former initiator and Director General of the DARIAH European infrastructure. He has conducted research in the areas of natural language processing and semi-structured document modeling, with a particular focus on texts and linguistic resources. He has also played an active role in standardization efforts within ISO committee TC 37 as chairman (2016-2024) and the Text Encoding Initiative. For many years, he has been involved in various initiatives promoting open science and has designed policies for several European research organizations.