Gerald Grunberg, born in 1948, is emeritus chief librarian. He has managed several public libraries before being in charge of monitoring the construction of public libraries at the Ministry of Culture. Then he was one of the programmers of the new National Library (BnF) until 1997. Adviser for the realization of the Bibliotheca Alexandrina from 1997 to 2001, he then directed the Public Information Library in the George Pompidou Center in Paris. He has also been director of international relations at the BnF. Since 2013, he has been Associate Professor at Leopold Sedar Senghor University, advisor for the “Francophony” at the Limoges National Dramatic Center and Chairman of the French Committee of the UNESCO Memory of the World Program. Gerald Grunberg has published numerous articles on libraries and documentary heritage. He is chevalier of the Legion of Honor.