Jean Bézivin is industry consultant in sofware modeling and emeritus professor of Computer Science at the University of Nantes. He previously created AtlanMod, a research team common to INRIA and Ecole des Mines de Nantes. He got his Master degree from the University of Grenoble and Ph.D. from the University of Rennes. He has been research assistant in 1972 at the Queen's University of Belfast and in 1973 at the Concordia University of Montreal. Since 1980 he has been very active in Europe in the object-oriented community and in the model-driven community, starting the ECOOP series of conference, the TOOLS series of conferences, the MoDELS/<<UML>> series of conferences and the ICMT seri...