Board of Directors

The W3C Board of Directors —first seated in September 2022— is the governing body of the World Wide Web Consortium public-interest non-profit organization. The Directors have ultimate authority on W3C's strategic direction, have a legal obligation to ensure that W3C implements its mission to lead the Web to its full potential, and have fiduciary responsibility over W3C as a whole.

Directors are:

• Dominique Hazaël-Massieux (P)
• Chunming Hu (P)
• Koichi Moriyama (M)
• Jun Murai (P)
• Chris Needham (M)
• Florian Rivoal (M)
• Eric Siow (M)
• Léonie Watson (M)
• Chris Wilson (M)
• Hongru (Judy) Zhu (M)

Non-voting Board meeting participants include:

• Tim Berners-Lee, as the Founder Director
• Advisory Board liaisons, currently Tantek Çelik and Elika Etemad

The W3C Inc bylaws define three classes of Directors:

• Member-elected (M): All Member-elected Directors were elected by the W3C Membership in September 2024 to two-year terms.
• Partner-selected (P): These Director were elected by their respective Hosts/Partners to one-year terms during the term of their electing Partner's Partnership.
• Board-elected (B): The Board may elect up to two additional Directors for two-year terms. Director Camarillo was elected in November 2022.

Officers

• President: Seth Dobbs
• Treasurer: Ken Troshinsky
• Secretary: Christine Gefaell

Board resources

• Board home (Member-only info about contact, operations, meetings, etc.)
• W3C, Inc. Bylaws and Certificate of Incorporation

Homepage

This page

Shortname

board

Leadership

Chairs

• Léonie Watson

Staff Contacts

• Ian Jacobs