Asmus Freytag, Ph.D. is president of ASMUS, Inc. a Seattle-based company specializing in consulting services and seminars on topics ranging from software globalization and implementing Unicode to companies world-wide.

He has been a contributor to the Unicode Standard since before the inception of the Unicode Consortium and a co-author of the Unicode Standard, Version 3.0 as well as several Unicode Technical Reports. He is a vice-president of the Unicode Consortium.