Unicode® Operational Team Leadership

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 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 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.

Gregg has been in the IT industry for almost 30 years. In that time, he has worked in non-profit, commercial and government sectors in consulting and in-house positions helping organizations streamline their environments and processes. He holds an MS in Information Systems from American University. In his spare time, Gregg plays in a band that plays in Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland and DC.

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.