Lionel Briand is one of the five ACM Fellows of the 2020 cohort who are also active SIGSOFT members. To celebrate his award, we invited him to a question/answer session. Lionel is professor of software engineering and has shared appointments between the University of Ottawa and the University of Luxembourg. He holds a Canada Research Chair (Tier 1) and an ERC Advanced grant. Over the last 25 years, Lionel has been an engineer, a researcher, a research institute department head, a research center leader, a university professor, and a consultant in the IT industry. His experience spans six countries and over the years he has run research and innovation projects with or worked for 30+ industry partners and public institutions. He has not only an impressive publication and research record as well as a long list of awards but also has served as editor-in-chef, editorial board member, steering committee member, general chair and program chair of top-level journals and conferences in the software engineering community.