Lou Burnard is an internationally-recognised expert in digital humanities, particularly in the area of text encoding and digital libraries. He was Assistant Director of Oxford University Computing Services (OUCS) from 2001 to 2010. Previous to that, he was manager of the Humanities Computing Unit at OUCS for five years. He has worked in ICT support for research in the humanities since the 1990s. He was one of the founding editors of the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) and continues to play an active part in its maintenance and development, both as a consultant to the TEI council and as an elected member of the TEI Board. He has played a key role in the establishment of many other key activities and initiatives in this area, such as the UK Arts and Humanities Data Service, and the British National Corpus and has published and lectured widely. Since 2008 he has also worked closely with the TGE ADONIS in France.