Reinhard Schäler has been involved in the localisation industry in a variety of roles since 1987. He is the founder and director of the Localisation Research Centre (LRC) at the University of Limerick, was a founding member and chairperson of the Software Localisation Interest Group (SLIG), is the editor of the quarterly publication Localisation Focus, an editor of the International Journal of Localisation (IJL), a member of the editorial panel of Multilingual Computing, a founder and CEO of The Institute of Localisation Professionals (TILP), a member of the OASIS Technical Committee on the XML-based Localisation Interchange File Format (XLIFF) and vice chair of the OASIS Technical Committee on Translation Web Services. He has recently joined the International Unicode Conference Committee and is preparing a localisation stream for the next Unicode Conference. He is a lecturer at the Department of Computer Science and Information Systems (CSIS) at the University of Limerick.