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	Deborah Anderson Chair, UTC Script Encoding Working Group; Vice-Chair, Grant Management Team
	Dr. Deborah Anderson joined the Unicode Consortium as a technical director in 2007. Prior to that, she was involved in the Unicode effort as an invited expert, then as UC Berkeley's representative to the Unicode Consortium since 2005. Deborah is a researcher in the Department of Linguistics at the University of California at Berkeley and runs its Script Encoding Initiative (and runs its NEH-sponsored sibling, the Universal Scripts Project). She received her Ph.D. from UCLA in Indo-European Studies.She is Chair of the Unicode Script Ad Hoc Group.


	Elango Cheran Vice-Chair, Community Engagement Team
	Elango Cheran is the Vice-Chair of the recently formed Community Engagement team and an internationalization engineer at Google. He actively contributes to the ICU and ICU4X projects, and to the MessageFormat Working Group.


	Toral Cowieson CEO
	Toral Cowieson joined Unicode in 2021. More recently, she was the head of strategy and impact measurement at the Internet Society. She also held the leadership and learning portfolio, where her team set the vision and scaled online training and fellowship programs to reach NextGen leaders across 100 countries. Many of these technology and policy professionals are now contributing to the design, standards development, and governance of the core Internet infrastructure around the world. Toral’s prior experience includes leadership roles as a board advisor and across non-profits and corporations, including Thomson Reuters.


	Steven Loomis Chair, CLDR Digitally Disadvantaged Languages Working Group; Vice-Chair, Infrastructure Team
	Steven R. Loomis is the owner of Code Hive Tx, LLC, a software consultancy focussing on globalization enablement. He was with IBM’s corporate globalization group for 22 years where he worked on translation workflow modernization, assisted with the formation of the Common Locale Data Repository (CLDR) project, and served as IBM’s Technical Lead for the International Components for Unicode for C/C++ (ICU4C). He continues to work on CLDR’s Survey Tool and other tools and processes, work on the updated CLDR Keyboard specification, and work in SIL Keyman to implement the same CLDR specification.


	Rick McGowan Chair, Infrastructure Team
	Rick McGowan was appointed Technical Director in July 1992, then Vice President in 1998. He became Technical Vice President in 2011, then VP/IT in 2021. In 2001, he joined Unicode as a senior software engineer and a member of staff. Prior to that Rick was employed by AT&T Unix Pacific, NeXT Software, Inc. and Apple Computer, Inc. Rick has long been an active participant in the Unicode Technical Committee, and participated in the working group prior to the formation of the Consortium.