Sir Tim Berners-Lee

Sir Tim Berners-Lee is the inventor of the World Wide Web and creator of HTML (Hypertext Markup Language). He invented the Web in 1989 while working at CERN, initially conceived to meet the demand for automatic information-sharing between scientists in universities and institutes around the world. Sir Tim Berners-Lee worked to ensure that the Web was made freely available to all, and continues to work towards enhancing and protecting the Web for the future. He has envisioned the next generation of the Web, the Semantic Web.

Sir Tim Berners-Lee is Director of the World Wide Web Consortium, co-founder of the Open Data Institute, Advisor for numerous governments and corporations on ongoing digital strategies, and holds academic posts at the Massachusets Institute of Technology at CSAIL (Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab), (USA) and the University of Oxford (UK).