Fouad Zablith is a researcher at the Knowledge Media Institute (KMi) of the Open University. He recently defended his PhD thesis, focused on Ontology Evolution in the field of Semantic Web, under the supervision of Mathieu d'Aquin, Enrico Motta, and Marta Sabou. His PhD research was partly supported by the EU-funded NeOn project. He is also involved in the SmartProducts project, and the LUCERO project for modeling and publishing university information as Linked Data within data.open.ac.uk. Next to his research work, Fouad is the web consultant of the Open Arts Archive project.

He has been working at ZeTrading.com as a business developer and IT manager in China and Lebanon. Next to his 2.5 years of experience in ERP solutions in Dubai, Fouad has accomplished with distinction a research Masters degree at the British University in Dubai, jointly with the 5*-rated School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh. As part of his Masters' thesis, he produced ArgDF, an advanced second-generation Web (i.e. Semantic Web) application, for supporting multi-user dialogue and argumentation. Fouad holds as well a BS in Computer Science and a BBA in Business Operations and Information Management from the American University of Beirut.