Steven Krauwer

CLARIN

Steven Krauwer got his degree in mathematics from Utrecht University in 1971, with a minor in linguistics. Since 1972 he has been working as a researcher, lecturer and project manager in the Utrecht institute of Linguistics of the Faculty of Humanities of Utrecht University. He has worked on formal languages, on
computational linguistics (with a special focus on machine translation), and since the mid-nineties on language and speech resources, with a special interest in under-resourced and endangered languages. He was the coordinator of the EC-funded CLARIN project that led to the creation of the CLARIN Research
Infrastructure and its governing body CLARIN ERIC. He was the first CLARIN ERIC Executive Director from 2012 until 2015. He is now a guest researcher at the Faculty of Humanities of Utrecht University, a member of the Executive Committee of the Foundation for Endangered Languages and Senior Advisor to the CLARIN ERIC Board of Directors.