Gregor Thurmair has a long history and experience in multilingual text processing and machine translation in industrial setups. Starting with the first retrieval and dialogue systems in the 80s, he worked as a researcher, project leader, and technical director both in the development of IR and MT systems (Siemens’ METAL, Linguatec’s Personal Translator) and in Language Engineering projects for terminology, multilingual text analysis, and translation in several EU Projects. He has more than 50 publications; he was a member of the ELRA board, reviewer for the European Commission, and invited speaker in several conferences (LREC, CLEF, MTSummit).