Richard Ishida is co-chair of the Internationalization & Unicode Conference Review Board, and has delivered tutorials at every twice-yearly International Unicode Conference since 1995.

A W3C Team member, Richard chairs the W3C Internationalization Working Group, and the GEO (Guidelines, Education and Outreach) task force. The W3C Internationalization Activity has the mission of ensuring universal access to the Web, regardless of language, script or culture, by proposing & coordinating any techniques, conventions, guidelines and activities within the W3C that help to make and keep the Web international.

Prior to joining the W3C Richard's internationalization seminars and consulting helped product groups around the world develop websites, documents, software and on-screen information so that it can be easily localised for the international marketplace. His background includes translating and interpreting, computational linguistics, and translation tool technology, and he has studied French, Spanish, Italian, German, Russian, Japanese and Arabic.