Francois Fluckiger

openlab Manager

Francois Fluckiger, Manager of the CERN openlab, is the Knowledge and Technology Transfer Officer for Information Technologies department at CERN and Director of the CERN Schools of Computing. Before joining CERN in 1978, he was employed for five years by SESA in Paris. At CERN, he has been in charge of external networking for more than 12 years and held positions in infrastructure and application networking, including the management of CERN's World-Wide Web team after the departure of the Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee. He is an adviser to the European Commission, a member of the Internet Society Advisory Council and the author of the reference textbook "Understanding Networked Multimedia" as well as more than 80 articles. He is also a Computer Sciences lecturer at the University of Geneva. He has more than 35 years of experience in networking and information technologies. Francois Fluckiger holds an MSc in Physics from the Paris IV University. He graduated from the Ecole Suprieure d'Electricit in 1973 and was awarded an MBA by the Enterprise Administration Institute in Paris in 1977.