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From March 1971 until July 2003, he was with [[CSELT]], the corporate research center of the [[Telecom Italia]] group. His final position there was vice president, multimedia, at Telecom Italia Lab, the new name given to CSELT in 2001.
The initiative for which he is best known started in 1988, when he originated the [[International Organization for Standardization|ISO]]/[[International Electrotechnical Commission|IEC]] standardization activity known as [[MPEG]] (or Moving Picture Experts Group) (originally ISO TC 97/SC 2/WG 8, later [[ISO/IEC JTC 1]] [[ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 29|SC 29]]/WG 11), of which he was the Convenor (chairman) from its start until June 2020.<ref>{{Cite web|title=A future without MPEG |first= Leonardo |last= Chiariglione |work= Leonardo's Blog |url=https://blog.chiariglione.org/a-future-without-mpeg/|access-date=2020-07-01|language=en-US}}</ref> This group, with a membership of over 300 experts, representing 20 countries and various industries having a stake in digital audio and video, produced the [[MPEG-1]] and [[MPEG-2]] standards that facilitated the emergence of [[digital media|digital audio-visual media]].
He has led a number of European collaborative projects:
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[[Category:University of Tokyo alumni]]
[[Category:Primetime Emmy Engineering Award winners]]
[[Category:People from Almese]]
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