Josef van Genabith is Scientific Director for Multilingual Technologies at DFKI, the German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence, and Professor for Translation-Oriented Language Technologies at the University of Saarland, Germany. He was the Founding Director of CNGL (the Centre for Next Generation Localisation, now ADAPT) and a Professor in the School of Computing at Dublin City University, Ireland. Previously he worked as a researcher at the University of Stuttgart, Germany, and the University of Essex, U.K., where he obtained a PhD.