Serge Abiteboul is since 2018 Member of the Board of Arcep (Autorité de Régulation des Communications Electroniques et de la Poste). He is a computer science researcher at Inria and ENS, Paris. He co-founded the company Xyleme in 2000. He is a member of the French Academy of Sciences and of the Academy of Europe. Serge Abiteboul also writes novels, essays, and is editor and founder of the Blog Binaire of the LeMonde Newspaper.