Alonzo C. Addison serves as Special Advisor to the Director of the UNESCO World Heritage Centre and as a consultant to numerous organizations including the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), Friends of Humanity, and others. He is President of the Virtual Systems and Multimedia Society (VSMM), Vice President of the ICOMOS International Scientific Committee for Interpretation and Presentation of Cultural Heritage (ICIP) and serves on the boards of the ACM Journal of Computing in Cultural Heritage (JOCCH), European Heritage Network (EPOCH), the ICOMOS Heritage Documentation Committee, and numerous other organizations.He has led field projects at heritage sites from Angkor (Cambodia) to Bagan (Myanmar), Peru to Egypt, and Belize to Bhutan. He holds degrees in engineering, architecture, and computing from Princeton and the University of California at Berkeley and founded Berkeley's Center for Design Visualization. He divides his time between San Francisco and Paris.UNESCO's World Heritage mission seeks to identify, protect, and preserve cultural and natural heritage around the world that is considered to be of outstanding universal value.