Christian Huitema


Christian Huitema was the first non-American chair of the Internet Architecture Board, serving from April 1993 to July 1995. He currently is a consultant focused on privacy on the Internet.

Biography

After graduating from the École Polytechnique, Huitema served for five years as an engineer at Sema Group in Montrouge before returning to the Centre national d'études des télécommunications in Issy-les-Moulineaux. In 1986, he joined the French Institute for Research in Computer Science and Automation. Huitema collaborated on several research projects including the NADIR Project to study the use of computer satellites, the European Strategic Program on Research in Information Technology's THORN project, and the RODEO project. He worked as a chief scientist for Bell Communications Research in the mid-1990s. At Microsoft, Huitema was involved with the development of 6to4 and Teredo tunneling.