Christian Huitema

Christian Huitema (born 1953 in Nantes, France) was the first non-American chair of the Internet Architecture Board (IAB), 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 in 1975, Huitema served for five years as an engineer at Sema Group in Montrouge before returning to the Centre national d'études des télécommunications (CNET; now part of Orange S.A.) in Issy-les-Moulineaux. In 1985, he received a PhD from University of Paris VI. 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.